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Little Rock Film Festival 2009: Donahue talks

Raving about the city's downtown restoration to a glammed up crowd at the Clinton Library Gala, Phil Donahue gave the keynote address for the Little Rock Film Festival declaring "You look like you bought a pretty prom dress." The legendary talk show host had screened his documentary Body of War earlier in the day. Also, awards were distributed for best documentary The Way We Get By and best narrative That Evening Sun. Festival Organizers Craig and Brent Renaud with Phil DonahueThe Way We Get ByDirector Aron Gaudet follows three senior citizens who voluntarily spend their days, with others, greeting American troops as they arrive at...  read more

SXSW Film 2009: Don't Use the M-Word

For good reasons — like the fact that all of Joe Swanberg's features have played here — the annual South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, has a reputation as the adopted home of mumblecore. The dreaded M-word is used more and more negatively these days, but any term that labels films as diverse as Frownland, LOL, and Mutual Appreciation is a coinage looking for a definition. It was bound to fizzle at some point. The terminology may be disintegrating, but the filmmakers behind these movies are still collaborating and still growing. This year, Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha,...  read more

Greta Gerwig & Joe Swanberg: The Penny-Pinching Future of Indie Cinema

There’s low-budget guerrilla filmmaking and then there’s low-budget guerrilla filmmaking...  read more

44th Chicago International Film Festival features local director Joe Swanberg, a Wesley Willis documentary, and more

[Above: Still from Nights and Weekends, directed by Chicago's own Joe Swanberg]The promise of "appearances by Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle and Charlie Kaufman” is enough to make any film aficionado salivate, but you don’t have to be a cinema buff to enjoy this year's 44th Chicago International Film Festival. Featuring more than 170 films from 47 countries, this year's film festival, which runs Oct. 16-29, offers sneak peaks and inside looks with its screenings and panel discussions featuring directors and actors....  read more