Posts Tagged ‘Screening the Past’

 

July 24th, 2009

Table Rock Films will release “American Casino,” the documentary from journalist and documentarian Leslie Cockburn scrutinizing the predatory subprime loan racket insidiously connected to the current financial meltdown.

Busy Guillermo del Toro thrives under ‘Strain’ as the director chats to the LA Times’ Geoff Boucher about his new vampire novel and the upcoming filming of “The Hobbit.”

Coming later this summer, the English-language version of “Ponyo” is the latest film from the lauded Hayao Miyazaki, director of “Howl’s Moving Castle” and the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away.”

Screening the Past publishes Australian National University scholar John Finlay Kerr’s ‘Rereading’ Be Kind Rewind: How film history can be remapped through the social memories of popular culture.

One Film Wonder: In 1989, Estelle Reiner delivered one of the great one-liners at the climax of Meg Ryan’s career defining scene in son Rob Reiner’s “When Harry Met Sally.” Married to Carl Reiner for 55 years until her death this past October, her memorable cameo as “older customer in orgasm scene” was the last of five brief film appearances.