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'Keyhole' review: Guy Maddin strangeness Keyhole RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Drama. Directed by Guy Maddin. With Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Louis Negin, Udo Kier. (Rated R. 94 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Keyhole" is a dreamy, enigmatic melodrama, told... www.sfgate.com
FIRST PERSON | Film Historian David Bordwell Releases His Authoritative History of the Digital Transition Film historian David Bordwell, who with his wife Kristin Thompson has written the popular intro to film textbook "Film Art" for several decades and was profiled on Indiewire several weeks ago in our Movie Lovers we Love column, has been investigating the digital transition in movie theaters for some time now on his blog. He's expanded his thoughts into an ebook, "Pandora's Digital Box: Films ... www.indiewire.com
The Case of the Missing Movie Exec His marriage was in turmoil. His son had stopped speaking to him. His house was underwater. And then he disappeared. www.thedailybeast.com
Comments OMG! How could writer Scott Marks miss Encinitas’s iconic La Paloma Theatre in his top ten picks of local theaters (“Our 10 Best Movie Theaters,” Cover Story, May 17)? His number one pick, Reading Cinemas Gaslamp #1, bestows the glamor of a re-created “stylish touch of ’20s art deco.” www.sandiegoreader.com
Cablevision looking to sell Clearview movie theater chain, including Manhattan's famed Ziegfeld Theater Cablevision is shopping its Clearview Cinemas movie theater chain, which has 45 theaters in the New York tri-state area including the famed Ziegfeld in Manhattan, the company's CFO said on today's earnings call. Chief Financial Officer Gregg Seibert told investors that the company planned to explore strategic alternatives... www.nypost.com
Bernie Tiede opens up about his jailhouse visits with Jack Black The East Texas man, who the new movie "Bernie" is named after, says he meet some A-list celebrities when they visited him in prison. www.kltv.com
Movie with Hannibal hitting theaters WaterWalk was partially filmed in Hannibal. Hannibal also plays a role in the move as well. Contributed www.hannibal.net
Movies: Hot summer films, tepid 'Shadows,' an eerie 'Voice' and more New releases in Portland-area theaters not reviewed in this week's A&E. blog.oregonlive.com
Peter Berg discusses bringing "Battleship" to film LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Peter Berg parlayed successful acting work on TV shows like medical drama "Chicago Hope" to an even greater directing career of movies such as "Friday Night Lights," which later became a TV series, and the Will Smith action flick "Hancock." On Friday, Berg's latest film, alien-invasion actioner "Battleship," steams into theaters. It takes its title from the Hasbro board ... ca.news.yahoo.com
'Battleship' Director Talks Adapting Board Game to Film The prospect of taking classic board game Battleship, a guessing game with no real story, and turning it into a big-budget summer film for Universal and Hasbro Studios — with clear hopes of it becoming a blockbuster franchise like Hasbro's massively successful "Transformers" — is no easy challenge, but it's one that director Peter Berg was up for. news.yahoo.com
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