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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Film / Film News Opening Friday

Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM

Universal

The Best Man Holiday - Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Film / Film News Opening Friday

Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Magnolia Pictures
How I Live Now

All Is Lost - Robert Redford

How I Live Now - Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland

Thor: The Dark World - Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Film / Film News Cuckoo for Cucalorus

Posted By Matt Brunson on Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:36 PM

Cinedigm
Short Term 12

Buckle up for that road trip, because the 19th annual Cucalorus Film Festival will be held Nov. 13-17 at various venues in downtown Wilmington.

A showcase for independent and international cinema, the fest annually presents scores of screenings as well as workshops, parties and other special events. This year, roughly 200 features, documentaries, shorts and more will be shown, with over two dozen countries represented. Among the screenings: Greece's Boy Eating the Bird's Food and The Netherlands' Borgman, each angling to be one of the five nominees in this year's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race; The Sacrament, the latest horror flick from writer-director Ti West (The Innkeepers, The House of the Devil); and the acclaimed drama Short Term 12, starring Brie Larson.

For details, including the complete schedule and ticket prices, visit the festival website here.

Tags: Film, Matt Brunson, Cucalorus, Film Festival, Wilmington, Short Term 12, Boy Eating the Bird’s Food, Borgman, The Sacrament, Image

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Film / Film News Opening Friday

Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM

RLJ/Image Entertainment
Last Love

About Time - Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams

Ender's Game - Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford

Free Birds - Animated; voices of Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson

Last Love - Michael Caine, Gillian Anderson

Last Vegas - Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro

12 Years a Slave - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Film / Film News Opening Friday

Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Sony Pictures Classics
Wadjda

The Counselor - Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll

Wadjda - Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah

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Monday, October 21, 2013

Film / Arts 15 Short Film Festival winners

Posted By Anita Overcash on Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:59 PM

Folks crowded into The Evening Muse last night for the 15 Short Film Festival, which screens short films - meaning 15 minutes or less - by filmmakers from around the world. The event, in its seventh year, featured more U.S. films than normal and switched up its "experimental" category to "something different," alongside of the usual suspects: comedy, documentary, narrative and animation.

Kicking off the screenings was Crush 472, a U.K. film about a man who obsesses about a woman while he waits in line for his morning cup of joe. From other categories there were not one, but two, basketball-related documentary films (Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop and Five/Five) and a gorey, Spain flick called The Acrobat, which came out of the narrative pool.

The Gold Sparrow

Animation, one of my personal faces, featured The Gold Sparrow, an animated short about a metropolis dominated and stripped of color by a villainous, sultry creature and her hostile sidekick. It also included The Mega Plush, a short about a shoot out between a gangster teddy bear and an unarmed sock monkey, injured and then saved by a patrol crew of armed sock monkeys.

Now, on to the winners! For the Audience Prize for Best Of Show there was a tie between Caine's Arcade, a documentary about a boy who makes his own arcade out of cardboard boxes inside of his father's auto shop in east L.A. and Harry Grows Up, a comedy about a toddler's adult-like love dilemmas and fascination with the babysitter.

The Jury Prize, also a tie, went to The Exit Room, an action-packed flick about a man's longing to escape a prison-like facility before he is executed, and The Gold Sparrow.

See all the 2013 15 Short Film Festival program below.

Tags: 15 Short Film Festival, film, shorts, Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC, Image

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