The Bling Ring
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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? […]
by Nick Dawson on Sep 16, 2013 -
High Times: the 39th Seattle International Film Festival
Closing this past weekend with the North American premiere of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, a rousing if troubling film from the talented poster child of Hollywood nepotism, the Seattle International Film Festival ended another stellar edition in appropriately laidback style for this sneakily large, aesthetically pleasing, generally all-too-inviting, pot-positive town. SIFF is a mammoth event, a well-oiled machine, smartly run and elegantly programmed; if there is a festival with a more devoted community of volunteers and board members, cultish cinephiles and casual participants making it into a unique and unusual thing, I don’t know of it. More on that […]
by Brandon Harris on Jun 11, 2013 -
Cannes 2013: Portraits of Purgatory
Portraits of purgatory dot this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with movies that run the gamut in terms of styles and techniques: epic drama, cheeky comedy, documentary, animation, and surrealism. No matter what the setting, the plight is the same, with characters stuck in a cycle of emotional limbo where hope for happiness floats tantalizingly but incessantly out of reach. The most accomplished of the group is The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino’s voluptuously crafted riff on La Dolce Vita and a masterful study of 65-year-old Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), a dilettante journalist still coasting on the acclaim of a single early-career […]
by Stephen Garrett on May 22, 2013
