Sitges Film Festival 2009: Amer, The Loved Ones, Doghouse, More
What you do in Sitges, Spain, during the annual Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic, is pretty much this: Wake up at 7:30 a.m. Eat breakfast. Hit first movie at 8:30 a.m. Continue throughout day. Break for late-afternoon nap, snack, interview or hang in the lobby bar of the Hotel Melia. Go see more movies. Go to dinner. Go drinking. See a movie (maybe). Go to the late-night party that usually begins after 1 a.m. Get back to room about 4:30 a.m. (with luck). Wake up at 7:30 a.m. And repeat. For seven or eight days straight. If your eyeballs haven’t... read more
Atlanta Film Festival 2009: Red Carpet Video Interviews with Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Karin Hayes and More
Paste worked the red carpet on opening night of the Atlanta Film Festival, talking to Josh Brolin, Chris Moore and more. Watch the interviews in the embedded videos below: ... read more
The Top Five Movies to See at the Atlanta Film Festival 2009
A film festival is an unpredictable affair. Most of the time, you don’t really get a sense of what’s buzzy until you’re on the ground talking to fellow festivalgoers. Or, often, some of your favorite films end up being ones you just stumbled into. Maybe you have a gap between two preferred choices and a film just happens to fit the slot, so you go see it on a whim. Or maybe you can’t get into the film you wanted to see, but another one is showing in the next theater over. The serendipitous nature is part of what makes... read more
Sundance 2009: Film Round-Up
Sundance Film Roundup Narrative Films An Education Nick Hornby wrote the script for An Education, so you’d expect the dialogue to be superb, and it is. (Although, it’s a strange choice to adapt someone else’s book instead of one of his own; he’d “rather mess up other people’s stories.”) And newcomer Carey Mulligan is spectacular in the leading role, so good that if I had seen the film earlier I would have made a point to see The Greatest, another Sundance selection starring Mulligan. In this one, though, she plays a schoolgirl who begins to spend time with an older... read more
Sundance 2009: Music Round-Up
Cee-Lo is best known by hipsters these days as the vocal half o Justin Nozuka Justin Nozuka is a name that you will be hearing a lot in the coming months. A Canadian of Japanese and American descent who’s still just 19 years old, he comes across as a bizarre blend of Michael Jackson and Jeff Buckley...in a good way. His set at Tatou was a stunner, and certainly a harbinger of great things to come. Nozuka has a gift of being sensitive without cloying, pleading without whining. His vocals have a beautifully immediate quality; there’s no artifice to be... read more
Sundance 2009: Ma Bar, A Film From My Parish and Old Partner
As Paste winds down its Sundance 2009 coverage, here's a round-up of a few films we haven't covered extensively yet:... read more
Sitges Film Festival 2008: The Good, The Bad, The Weird
[Above: Lina Leandersson in Let the Right One In]Another 10 days at the world’s leading festival for fantastic cinema have come to a close. All the extraterrestrials have phoned home. And the zombies are in repose until next October. Despite very late nights drinking with actors, filmmakers, distributors and programmers from Finland, Colombia, Korea, Japan, Ireland, Australia, France, Canada, New York and, of course, Spain, I managed to see 23 or 25 or 27 movies, often sleeping on my feet, so that the whole experience began to feel like an endless reel. ... read more
Sitges Film Festival 2008: Ferrara on the Rocks
[Above: William Burroughs and Andy Warhol in Chelsea on the Rocks]Within the “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” mythology of New York City, the Chelsea Hotel has always held a unique spot as a haven for misfits, bohemians and vagabond geniuses. Even as the rest of Manhattan gentrified and Disneyfied, the 12-story building at 222 East 23rd Street—a hotel since 1905—held its ground, its rooms occupied by everyone from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan, Sid Vicious to Julian Schnabel, Arthur Miller to Courtney Love. It’s a cultural landmark of the feverish demimonde that has made... read more
Sitges Film Festival 2008: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
All that is mondo melts into Sitges. Brain-eating zombies! Samurai assassins! Spooky children with spookier smiles! Post-apocalyptic clones! Robot monsters! Naked babes! Dead naked babes! Dead naked babes that bite!... read more
Beer Pong, Salesmen and British Gangsters: Cinevegas, Day 2
[L-R] Stills from Wellness, The End and Last Cup: The Road to the World Series of Beer Pong... read more
Rainn Wilson's The Rocker opens Cinevegas
[L-R] Rainn Wilson and Dennis Hopper. Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for CineVegas.The 10th annual Cinevegas Film Festival kicked off on Thursday with a screening of The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson and directed by Oscar-nominee Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty). The director and star, along with costars Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen, Emma Stone, and Lonny Ross (30 Rock), were in attendance, as was Dennis Hopper (who serves as chairman of the festival's creative advisory board).... read more
