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Refreshingly, Around the Bend, director Jordan Roberts’ debut film, which won two awards at this year’s Montreal Film Festival (the Jury award and Best Actor for Christopher Walken), reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships...
Primer, the directorial debut of Shane Carruth, lacks any narrative thread, but essentially is a story about four broke, thirtysomething engineers who create a mysterious box in their garage that defies scientific rationality and seems to give them inexplicable control over life...
Both Carruth’s debut filmmaking skills and the pretentious nature of the film are reflected in his heavy-handed camera work: Carruth includes at least one shot per scene of the two protagonists standing in a room with a rectangular figure dividing them. Could it be that this box of weird science might ultimately divide the comrades...
...firmly in the niche business. After years of targeting pretty much every other group--women (Lifetime), young men (Spike TV), African Americans (BET) and insomniacs (C-SPAN--we kid!), it's inevitable that there would be a channel aimed specifically at gay and lesbian viewers. LOGO is scheduled to debut in 10 million to 15 million homes with digital cable in February, and is being touted by its creators as a cultural turning point. "It's a channel whose time has come," says Brian Graden, MTV and VH1's entertainment president, who helped develop the new channel. "Finally every voice...
Programming for LOGO, which will debut mostly in urban markets like Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, will include a variety of reality shows, movies such as Gods and Monsters and An Early Frost, and gay-themed specials like the annual GLAAD Media Awards. One potential new series, My Fabulous Gay Wedding, would follow a couple from wedding planning to the altar. Cher and her daughter Chastity Bono are producing Family Outing, which will chronicle coming-out stories. While straight people will have a presence, LOGO looks at life with a decidedly gay lens, with no apologies...