Documentary

Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One

Year: 2006 Blood and Oil, a new documentary from Inecom Entertainment, was utterly impressive. Director Marty Callaghan, whose previous work includes writing and producing a TV mini-series called The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History, clearly has a strong personal interest in his subject, and conveys a sense of immersive passion as he pursues the ….

Cocaine Cowboys film review

Year: 2006 Billy Corben’s exuberant documentary Cocaine Cowboys not only refrains from the type of overly preachy commentary that we usually see in drug-related documentaries, but it almost comically recounts the bloodbath that was Miami’s cocaine heyday, while delivering more solid reporting and facts than most of its predecessors. Part of the nirvana of the ….

ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM

Genre: DOCUMENTARY Release Dates: FALL 2005 Production Company: HDNet Synopsis:Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the inside story of one of history’s greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America’s 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. The film benefits greatly from Fortune reporters Bethany ….

GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM

Genre: DOCUMENTARY / HORROR Release Dates: Friday, October 13, 2006 Official Websites: www.starz.com/goingtopieces Taglines: A Starz Oringals Production The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film Production Company: Starz Entertainment Group / Candy Heart Productions Synopsis:“The ‘slasher film’ is brutal and gory, coming of age during the late ‘70s, the bastard child of the horror ….

Rize

Production Company: HSI Productions / Darkfibre Entertainment Ltd. Studio: Lions Gate Films Cast: Tommy the Clown as himself Crew: David LaChapelle (director and producer); Marc Hawker and Ellen Jacobson (producers); Drew Carolan, Coleen Haynes and Walid J. Mouaness (line producers); Anthony and Richmond Talauega (co-producers); Barry Peele (co-executive producer); Ellen Jacobson, Rebecca Skinner and Ishbel ….

WORDPLAY

Production Company: Grinder Productions/ O’Malley Creadon Productions Studio: IFC Films/ The Weinstein Company Cast: Judie Berger, Leslie Billig, Dr. Selmer Bringsjord, Katherine Bryant, Kathrine Bryant, Ken Burns, Bill Clinton, Neal Conan, Stella Daily, Jon Delfin, Joy Dewing, Bob Dole, Brian Dominy, Nancy Ellwood, Nancy Ellwood Fasulo, Vic Fleming, Liane Hansen, Doug Heller, Tyler Hinman, Jim ….

LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE

Genre: MUSICAL / DOCUMENTARY Release Dates: OCTOBER 22, 2004 (NY and LA) NOVEMBER 5th General release Trailers: Quicktime Trailer (hi-res)(320×240) (lo-res)(240×180) Official Websites: www.sonyclassics.com Synopsis:A one night, one time only concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in which some of the greatest performers in the history of Blues music, including Aerosmith, ….

42 Up film review

It gets longer every seven years! Now clocking in at a monstrous 2 hours, 19 minutes, the sixth installment of Michael Apted’s ambitious but uniformly unenlightening 7 Up series drags us down a familiar road, kicking and screaming all the way. Yet again, Apted shows us how the baker’s dozen of Brit-kids he first profiled ….

YEAR OF THE YAO

Production Company: Endgame Entertainment / NBA Entertainment Studio: Fine Line Features Cast: Shaquille O’Neal as himself, Colin Pine as himself and Ming Yao as Yao Ming Crew: Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern (directors); Bill Duffy and James D. Stern (producers); Christopher C. Chen and Paul J. Hirschheimer (co-producers); Larry Weitzman (co-executive producer); Adam ….

Big Screen Entertainment Completes William Shatner Documentary

Big Screen Entertainment CEO Kimberley Kates has announced that post production is complete on “William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet,” a documentary chronicling the production of a new ballet based on Shatner’s album, “Has Been.” The critically acclaimed album, produced by Ben Folds, provided renowned choreographer Margo Sappington, of the Milwaukee Ballet, with the inspiration to create ….

Tom Petty film to premiere at New York Film Festival

On October 14, the hotly anticipated Warner Bros. Records film “Runnin’ Down A Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” will have its first public screening. Directed by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show”), “Runnin’ Down A Dream” has been selected to close the 2007 New York Film Festival. “Runnin’ Down A Dream” tells ….

Sicko trailer to be projected on buildings across U.S. tonight

The trailer for Sicko, Michael Moore’s expose of the American health care system, will be projected with full sound and subtitles on the outside of buildings near the headquarters of leading HMOs, insurance companies and hospitals in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Oakland today, beginning at sundown through 1:00am. This innovative campaign ….

Michael Moore’s Sicko trailer

Following on the heels of his Palm d’Or winning Fahrenheit 9/11 and his Oscar–winning Bowling for Columbine, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore’s new documentary sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities. How do you pre-approve an ….