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Trailer for Lynn Shelton buddy comedy Humpday

Apple has posted the trailer for writer/director Lynn Shelton’s (My Effortless Brilliance) new indie comedy Humpday. Recipient of the “Someone to Watch Award” at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, Shelton mines the biggest ironies of the male ego in Humpday, a buddy movie gone wild. It’s been a decade since Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew ….

62nd Festival de Cannes line-up filled with cult, arthouse favorites and veterans

Arthouse favorites Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Johnny To, Lee Daniels, Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier and Terry Gilliam are among the directors, whose projects will be screened at Cannes, when the festival kicks off next month. Festival co-chairmen Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux unveiled the entries at a press conference in Paris earlier ….

Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera book review

Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds with a baby spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg’s mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties? – Excerpt from Homemade ….

Yojiro Takita’s Departures trailer online

The trailer for Yojiro Takita’s new film Departures has premiered on Apple’s trailer site. Departures centers on Daigo (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist who becomes jobless when his symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands. Giving up his dream of being a performer, Daigo moves back to his close-knit home town with wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue) to reevaluate ….

Batman: Dead End filmmakers return with Hunter Prey

Sandy Collora, famous for producing the indie short Batman: Dead End, recently wrapped an original sci-fi feature film called Hunter Prey. The new film centers on a group of elite intergalactic commandos that have crash-landed on a harsh planet while transporting an alien prisoner. Now they must track down and recapture the escaped creature, and ….

No Country For Old Men 2 Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray review

The 2007 Oscar winner for Best Picture, No Country for Old Men, arrives in a new collectable 2-disc Blu-ray edition tomorrow, April 7th, from Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men is easily Joel and Ethan Coen’s ….

New Powder Blue trailer

Speakeasy Releasing has released a new trailer for Powder Blue, which revolves around four strangers who cross paths through extraordinary and serendipitous circumstances. The film stars Jessica Biel, Eddie Redmayne, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Lisa Kudrow, Patrick Swayze, Kris Kristofferson, Alejandro Romero and Sanaa Lathan. Check out the trailer below. Find out more about Powder ….

Slumdog Millionaire Blu-ray review

Slumdog Millionaire is loosely based on the fictional novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, which tracks the life of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who never received a formal education. After losing his mother to fanatical religious violence, Jamal (played as a teen by Dev Patel) and his ….

Spike Lee, Natalie Portman, Gael Garcia Bernal, Eric Bana and more to host free filmmaker series at Apple Store

The Apple store in Soho New York will be celebrating the spirit of independent film and the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, by hosting a series of free filmmaking events from April 22 to May 3, 2009. Grab a seat in the store’s theater for the Meet the Filmmakers series, presented by Apple Computer and indieWIRE. ….

Win one of two copies of No Country for Old Men: Collector’s Edition on DVD

Next Tuesday, April 7th, Miramax Films and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release No Country for Old Men: Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray and DVD. The 2007 Oscar winner for Best Picture arrives with more than five hours of bonus features including extensive interviews with the filmmakers and an unauthorized trip backstage with star Josh ….

Isabella Rossellini presents Green Porno 2

Isabella Rossellini visits the IFC Center next Wednesday, April 1st at 7 pm, to present the theatrical premiere of the second season of her noted Green Porno short-film series, along with a special screening of The Flowers of St. Francis, directed by her father, the Italian master Roberto Rossellini, for a special Movie Night program.

Miami Latin Gay Film Fest announces line-up

The Miami Latin Gay Film Festival has unveiled the line-up of the best Latin Gay and Lesbian films from around the world, that will be featured during the 4 day event, which takes place from April 16 to 19, 2009. The announcement was made today by Executive Director Jim Dobson, along with Festival Director Ellen ….

Kobe Bryant film makes jump to Tribeca Film Fest

Details about the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival have been released. The ESPN Films production of Spike Lee’s Kobe Doin’ Work will have its world premiere at the fest, which runs from April 22 to May 3, 2009. The gala premiere will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Kobe Doin’ Work takes an unprecedented ….

Win a full-size signed movie poster from Buck Howard – The Great Buck Howard!

You can toss my salad when you get back to the hotel. – John Malkovich to Colin Hanks in ‘Buck Howard’ This Friday, March 20th, Magnolia Pictures will release the comedy The Great Buck Howard in theaters. To celebrate the release, FilmFetish is getting a full-size movie poster, signed by Colin Hanks and writer/director Sean ….

Tokyo Sonata film review

Kiyoshi Kurosawa – known for atmospheric thrillers like 2003’s Doppelganger, as well as satisfying and thought-provoking horrors like Pulse and Sakebi (Retribution) – brings his unique ability to disturb and captivate us at the same time, to the film Tokyo Sonata, the portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family, that slowly chips away at its ….