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Win a Signed Poster and DVD of Jamesy Boy
Jamesy Boy
Jamesy Boy, a gritty crime drama starring newcomer Spencer LoFranco plus Ving Rhames, Mary-Louise Parker and James Woods, comes out today on DVD and Blu-ray. Thanks to the good folks at Phase 4 Films, we have to give away a DVD copy of… Read more
Win a Copy of Four on DVD!
Four
Based on the play by Christopher Shinn and directed by Joshua Sanchez, Four is an award-winning drama that follows four people on the night of a steamy July 4th. A film about love and freedom, Four is an emotional-filled film that exposes the raw… Read more
Win a Copy of James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now
James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now, one of the most beloved films of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and a summer counter-programming hit, is out today on Blu-ray and DVD. Writing about the movie in this magazine, Scott Macaulay wrote, “Shot widescreen… Read more
Big Ass Spider! Giveaway
One the most audaciously over-the-top movies of the past year, Mike Mendez’s sci-fi creature feature Big Ass Spider is being released on Blu-ray and to celebrate, we’re having a creepy crawly giveaway! Thanks to our friends at Epic Pictures, we… Read more
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Win a Blu-Ray of I’m So Excited and a Poster Signed by Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar was in fine and very funny form last year with I’m So Excited, which comes out today on DVD and Blu-ray. Writing about I’m So Excited on the Filmmaker website, R. Kurt Osenlund wrote, “A dizzyingly sexual lark of a comedy, and Almodóvar’s fizziest film to date, the movie goes down with the mood-lightening and belt-loosening ease of the mescaline-spiked Valencia cocktails its lead characters guzzle. As has been widely reported, I’m So Excited is a throwback to the sort of telenovela-tinged comedies the director hasn’t made in years (think Airline Passengers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), […]
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Win a DVD Copy of Alicia Scherson’s The Future
Filmmaker has teamed up with Strand Releasing to offer five lucky readers the opportunity to win a DVD copy of Alicia Scherson’s The Future, a sultry noir about an aging B-movie beefcake (Rutger Hauer) whose heart is stolen by a young Italian woman who’s plotting to take him for all he’s worth. The film is available in stores now, but to get one of five copies up for grabs from Filmmaker all you have to do is be among the first to email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the correct answer to the following question: Rutger Hauer first came […]
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Dallas Buyers Club Giveaway: Win a Focus Features Blu-ray Pack
The real-life story of good ol’ boy Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey), a homophobic Texan electrician who discovered he was dying of Aids and decided to fight the system as he fought for his life, Dallas Buyers Club comes out on November 1 through Focus Features. To celebrate the film’s release, Focus is offering a prize pack of some of the finest films from its back catalogue. Dallas Buyers Club is a strong Oscar contender for its performances by McConaughey and Jared Leto (as transgender drug addict Rayon), so fittingly the Blu-rays up for grabs are also Focus titles that were […]
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A Rash of Survival Films
Well, Tom Hanks survived the Somali pirates. Sandra Bullock’s flying around trying to survive outer space. And almost every other dramatic movie I see is about survival. About staying alive. And that’s not even getting into the survival action films, like Hunger Games. The poster for Gravity says Don’t Let Go. Which sums up the message of all these survival films. Don’t Let Go! Don’t Die! Hold On To Yourself! Or, as Brian Wilson sang on Pet Sounds, Hang On to Your Ego. What about a surrender movie? A movie about letting go? What would that be like? Maybe instead […]
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On Growing Up with the Mumblecore Generation
The mumblecore mumblecorp is growing up, a reality certain to impact American independent film for years to come. And we, their generation, are aging with them. Some of us are their peers, some their audience, some their collaborators. Others, like me, have a more indirect tether. If “fan” is not the correct word then we are those who, because of our interest in and pursuit of film over the last decade, have come of age in their shadow. The mumblecorp — that tenacious group of filmmakers who, by blurring narrative and autobiography, cinema and home video, pioneered ultra-low-budget filmmaking — […]
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Win a DVD/Blu-ray Copy of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
Filmmaker has teamed up with A24 and Lionsgate to offer five lucky readers the opportunity to win a DVD or Blu-ray copy of Sofia Coppola’s kinetic drama about a gang of Los Angeles teens who targeted and robbed the homes of celebrities they were obsessed with. The film is out to buy from tomorrow, but to get your own free copy from Filmmaker all you have to do is be among the first to email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the correct answer to the following question: The Bling Ring was the final film of which revered cinematographer? […]
