The Australian drama Beneath Hill 60 was named Best Narrative Feature at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival. Jeremy Sims was named Best Director for the independent film, which tells the […]
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Review: ‘Blue Valentine’
If Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams don’t receive Oscar nominations for their performances in Blue Valentine, it will be damning evidence in the case against Academy politics and the institution’s […]
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A review: ‘The Conspirator’
Wednesday night’s feature at the Savannah Film Festival – kept secret until just before the projector rolled – was The Conspirator, the Civil War drama helmed by Robert Redford here […]
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Extreme closeup: Zach Gilford
The final season of Friday Night Lights hasn’t finished airing, but the NBC drama’s young star, Zach Gilford, is knee–deep in his next show. Off the Map, a new medical […]
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Extreme closeup: Isabella Rossellini
Even when you’re talking about bugs, sex sells. Green Porno, produced for the Internet and TV On Demand by the Sundance Channel, began in 2008 as a series of short, […]
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Extreme closeup: Blue Valentine
Since its premiere last January at Sundance, Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine has been snowballing down the big hill of industry buzz – it was the talk of Cannes, Toronto, London, […]
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Savannah Film Festival: SCAD student shorts II
The Candidate A cautionary tale about ambition and the perils of the corporate ladder that would have fit right into an episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. A young office […]
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Savannah Film Festival: The final reel
As we head into the second and final week of the 2010 Savannah Film Festival, the one question on everyone’s lips is: Will he or won’t he? Will Sir Ian […]
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Lights, camera… action!
It’s time once again for one of Savannah’s favorite yearly events, the Savannah Film Festival. Hosted by SCAD and sponsored in part by the City of Savannah as well as […]
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Extreme closeup: Edward Burns
For an initial outlay of $24,000 (paid, for the most part, through his credit cards), Edward Burns made his first film, The Brothers McMullen, in 1995. After it took the […]
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Extreme closeup: ‘The Kid’
Come the 19th of November, Nick Moran will be on movie screens all over the world, playing Scabior the Snatcher — a bad, bad dude — in Harry Potter and […]
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Savannah Film Festival: SCAD student shorts, Part One
There are 13 student–made short films in competition at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival. Of these, seven were made by current or recently–graduated SCAD students. Over the festival’s eight days, […]