This Saturday, June 16th, David Fenster’s new film, Pincus, will debut at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival. The film centers around Paul, a man suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and his son, Pincus, who manages the family business during the day and cares for his father at night. Pincus stars David Nordstrom and Paul Fenster as the father/son pair. You can visit the site for the film here.
Los Angeles Film Festival Screenings:
Saturday, June 16th at 8:10pm – Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE – Premiere
Thursday, June 21st at 7:40pm – Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE – Public Screening
Take a look a clip from the film after the jump…
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 Yes, you heard it! The Awards Circuit will be attending the 10 day Los Angeles Film Festival™, commencing today until June 24th! Presented by the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Film Festival™ celebrates the year’s most gifted film talents from across the globe, especially those under the radar, and puts them front and center at this special premiere venue. A mix of galas, summer showcases, international presentations, and films in competition (documentary, shorts, and narrative) will be presented at this year’s festival. As a Los Angeles native, I am proud to cover this special event on the site’s behalf, and I hope you will all get a greater, more intimate sense of what goes down at these major film events per my daily diary blogs, film reviews, interviews, and video coverage. If any reader has a question about a particular film, or would like to propose a possible “reader question” for an interview, please email me at jbravj@gmail.com or send me a direct message on Twitter: @JBAwardsCircuit. I look forward to hearing from everyone! Below, you will find the complete list of screenings I will be attending: Read more on The Awards Circuit attends the Los Angeles Film Festival!…
 Premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival, check out the trailer for this official selection in the narrative competition.
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 When Tom Cruise sits down to speak with you he gives you his full attention, his eyes locked with yours, his smile easy and often, the welcoming handshake firm and strong. You feel that the two of you are alone in the world at that moment; he has that effect when he comes into the room and gives you that attention. He is at once down to earth, and yet I was aware I was speaking one of the biggest stars in movie history. I liked Cruise at once, and did not listen to the often circulated rumors about his private life, which frankly, are not any of my business, nor do they have anything to do with what I am writing about! He asked me if I had children and we chatted about my family briefly, discussed his career and performances, and at the time, 1998, he indicated that something was coming that was going to change how people perceived him. Later next year I discovered of course he had been talking about Magnolia (1999) and he was right, it certainly did alter some of the perceived beliefs about Cruise. He cared about being an actor; he cares deeply about his craft and is striving always to be a better actor, but is aware of a fan base that likes him in certain films. Admittedly, he knows he must be both actor and movie star. Read more on Tom Cruise — Ten Best Performances…
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 How many times have I done this? One would think that someone so averse to organizing objects of such deeply personal and subjective an art form as cinema into a too-easily quantifiable “top ten list” would stop composing them so often. Yet here I am this week considering the ultimate cinematic ranking – the best films of all time. No matter how often I try to convince myself of the inherent silliness of positioning films in such a manner, my approach to this series has been one of the most carefully considered in my time as a staff member on The Awards Circuit.
I have been blessed with colleagues who quite obviously took this tasking as seriously as I have and drafted up a wonderfully diverse and idiosyncratic chain of articles highlighting their own favorites. What has made them such a joy to read for me is how clearly each list reflects their unique viewpoints of the artform…which I suppose is the reason for my considerable effort in composing my own list. Of course there is no such thing as an “objective” best film of all time and of course no one list is more credible or authoritative than the other. But in a way these top tens are declaring something more important: who we are as film lovers and, more importantly, how we value them.
I have often complained on this site and elsewhere about the current state of modern filmmaking; the rise of “shareholder cinema,” cynical awards season politics, and an increasing gap between popularity and quality, etc. Despite getting on such a curmudgeonly soapbox so often, I am just as frequently inspired by how greatness always seems to find a way to survive – even thrive – year after year. So in narrowing down the literally dozens of films that I seriously considered for my final list, these ten movies most strongly remind me that despite all the nonsense, cinema is still worth it; worth loving, worth defending, worth writing about, worth sharing and discussing with others. So with that, it is my pleasure to introduce my ten favorite movies of all time: Read more on 10 Greatest Films of All-Time (Robert)…
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Many of those who were able to see Prometheus in 3-D were privy to a quick sneak peak of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. The film is based on Yann Martel’s book, and tells the story of a ship-wrecked boy (played by Suraj Sharma) stranded at sea on a lifeboat with a vicious tiger. The clip ran for just a couple of minutes, but what we saw was an incredibly intense survival scene where the boy held his own against the tiger for the rights to the fish that had accidentally flopped aboard their boat.
There will be additional scenes for Life of Pi in front of the 3-D showings of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Ice Age: Continental Drift. Unfortunately, the plan is to make the clips unavailable online, so you will have to see the movies mentioned above (and in 3-D) to be able to view the scenes in advance. You can visit the official site here to browse pictures, listen to the score, etc. The film is due out November 21st.
Take a look at the banners for Life of Pi after the jump…
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With Father’s Day arriving this weekend, I thought it might be fun to do a Circuit 3 in honor of all dads out there. So this week we are going to focus on the 3 best performances given by an actor playing a father. However, the key here is to find performances where being a father was important to the role. In other words, just because Marlon Brando’s character (Colonel Kurtz) in Apocalypse Now has a son doesn’t mean his role had much to do with being a father. Try to stick to three performances where being a father was an important element to the character.
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 CRUISE (****)
Adam Shankman is not much of a movie director. His last film of any note was Hairspray (2007) which used the gimmick of casting John Travolta as a Jewish mom in the role created by gay legend Harvey Fierstein on Broadway. Hairspray (2007) had its moments, Christopher Walken was terrific (as always) and the songs were curiously upbeat and toe tapping but for me there were one too many shots of the chubby (sorry) lead actress dancing with a silly smile on her face, looking like a too happy gremlin, as though she could believe her good luck to be the lead in a movie. The film had its moments, Amanda Bynes was wonderful as the nerdy white girl who falls for a cool black boy, and James Marsden was outstanding as, Corny Collins, the host of the goofy TV show the kids watched. I think where the film goes off the rails is when it becomes overly preachy about Civil Rights, because up to that moment we have been watching a musical comedy and suddenly we veer into another area. Don’t judge a book by its cover, right, be it a chubby girl or by the color of one’s skin. Read more on Rock of Ages (*)…
 As one of the few remaining fans of the Mumblecore movement in indie cinema, I have a fond appreciation of filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass. They’ve given us some very interesting films in the past decade or so, and of late they seem to slowly be dipping their feet in the waters of Hollywood. In fact, the last two films from the Duplass Brothers (‘Cyrus’ and this year’s ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home’) had studio backing to a degree. Well, Deadline is reporting here that one of their upcoming projects will actually be for Universal Studios, and they’ll be writing and directing a remake of ‘Same Time, Next Year’. After the jump I’ll remind you what that film is about, but consider this the rare time that I’m excited for a remake. Read on below…
Read more on The Duplass Brothers have their first mainstream project lined up…
LOS ANGELES, June 12, 2012 – The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Gallery 800 announces the “Ben S. Lao: A Retrospective” opening Saturday, June 16, 2012 with a hosted reception from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The retrospective spotlights work from Ben Lao’s lifetime featuring over 50 original pieces and runs from June 16 – July 7, 2012. Gallery 800 is located in the heart of the famed NoHo Arts District at 5108 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood.
Lao was a scenic artist painting backdrops and sceneries for the movies, television, and amusement parks. He contracted for PBS, NBC, CBS, Disney Imagineering, and Fox TV where he worked as Journeymen for popular shows such as: In Living Color, One Day at a Time, Diff’rent Strokes, Good Times, The Jeffersons, 227, Gimme a Break!, 9 to 5, Married… with Children, Sanford and Son, Silver Spoons, and many more.
Read more on Ben S. Lao to be celebrated by Art Director Guild in “BEN S. LAO: A RETROSPECTIVE”…
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 Even when his film aren’t that good, Tim Burton always manages to conjure up interesting imagery and his art directors often find themselves with Oscar nominations. Now that he is returning to his animation roots, Disney is launching a touring exhibit featuring art from his latest film Frankenweenie. With original sketches drawn by Burton, to extensive props, sets and puppets, the exhibit will give patrons an inside glimpse into the process of making a stop motion animated film. The exhibition will open in Barcelona on June 18-21 before making its way Stateside during Comic Con. To whet everyone’s appetite Disney has released a sneak peak video featured after the jump.
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