ShortFest draws big crowd as it opens 7-day run
The Palm Springs International ShortFest embarked Tuesday on what Executive Director Darryl Macdonald called a 'week-long voyage of discovery' with an overflow number of passengers.
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The Palm Springs International ShortFest embarked Tuesday on what Executive Director Darryl Macdonald called a 'week-long voyage of discovery' with an overflow number of passengers.
ShortFest usually assembles separate packages of films about gays and lesbians. It's doing that this year on Thursday before the annual Gay!La party at Hunter's in Palm Springs. But, as an experiment, it's also trying to aggregate those audiences in the program, 'LGBT — Like Me' at 5 p.m. today.
'Mr. Invisible' and 'Can I Smoke' can both be seen at the Palm Springs Shortfest on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., respectively.
Here's a little secret, courtesy of the people who are bringing the story of convicted killer Jodi Arias to the small screen: This isn't a slapdash effort designed to capitalize on a sensational murder case.
NYU film student Mauricio Osaki learned a tough lesson about the movie industry this month when he showcased his short film at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency.
As AMFM Fest wrapped up Sunday, a sense of camaraderie united more than 150 creators and attendees in Mary Pickford Theatre for the weekend's award ceremony honoring actor and artist Viggo Mortensen.
'Man of Steel' leaped over box office expectations in a single weekend.
It has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the superhero blockbuster, the comics' most iconic son has eluded its grasp like a bird or, if you will, a plane.
The highly regarded Palm Springs International ShortFest will launch next Tuesday with an opening night package that only wants to make you laugh.
The suspense thriller 'The Purge' topped the weekend box office with a shocking $36.4 million that doubled industry expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday.
In the upcoming film 'Man of Steel,' Superman faces off against ruthless outcasts from his home planet. The last son of Krypton also encounters a more realistic force of nature on earth: a deadly tornado.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out together Sunday at the premiere of zombie thriller 'World War Z' — Jolie's first public appearance since announcing last month that she had undergone a double mastectomy.
With its supercharged muscle cars, 'Fast & Furious 6' raced to first place at the box office for the second consecutive weekend.
The Cannes Film Festival is the sine qua non (or, if you will, the cine qua non) that sets the agenda for other global film festivals. It not only celebrates cinema as art, but it serves as a handmaiden to film as business.
Hot-button issues such as gay marriage and illegal immigration are the focus of 'I Do,' Glenn Gaylord's comedy/drama about an expatriate Brit entering into a sham marriage to stay in the U.S. even while falling in love with another man. Although highly uneven in execution, the film's sympathetic characters and moving elements should help it strike a chord with gay audiences.
'A Dangerous Method' meets 'The Elephant Man' in writer-director Alice Winocour's absorbingly luminous debut feature 'Augustine,' which examines the unusual relationship between a pioneering 19th-century neurologist and his 'star' teenage patient.
'Stories We Tell' is a documentary about Sarah Polley's family: her father and mother, sister and brother and the sister and brother she has from her mother's first marriage.
The Hollywood image of Tonto once had the Lone Ranger's sidekick wearing a thin headband and lots of dangling fringes. The latest Disney version has a shirtless Johnny Depp adorned with feathers, a face painted white with black stripes, and a stuffed crow on his head.
Enough with telling other people's stories. Sarah Polley has moved on to telling her own, and it's as strange, revealing, disturbing and ultimately uplifting as anything a fictional filmmaker could dream up in her own head.
The tender, sensual lesbian romance 'Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele' won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d'Or.
It's a blowout at the box office.
Liberace was one of the most flamboyant entertainers in music history, and his style was emulated Saturday by fans who filled the Palm Springs Convention Center to catch free showings of a film based on the final years of the entertainer's life.
The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself.
Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen will be honored at next month's inaugural AMFM Festival in Cathedral City, it was announced Thursday.
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