Tag: stevejames
Exclusive Interview: Steve James on ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL
Steve James has been consistently crafting some of the smartest, most groundbreaking, most effective works of non-fiction for decades. Vaulted to the public eye with the majestic Hoop Dreams, his works have ranged from intimate portrayals of troubled men (Stevie),...
Blu-ray Review: AMERICAN NINJA - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION Charts A Legacy Of Badass Action
If there is any genre of cinema that is evocative of the '80s home video boom, it's probably action, and specifically the films of the Cannon Group. While there were dozens of imitators crowding video store shelves back in the...
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tops Online Film Critics Awards
Wes Anderson's rip-roaring love letter to Lubitsch and Hitchcock, The Grand Budapest Hotel, topped this year's Online Film Critics Society Awards, which counts a number of ScreenAnarchy contributors amongst its global membership. The film won awards for Best Picture, Best...
Los Cabos 2014: ScreenAnarchy Picks 10 Must See Films
Kicking off tonight with the Latin American premiere of Wild, the latest from Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée, the third edition of Mexico's Los Cabos International Film Festival (CIFF) promises to be a fantastic way to end the year...
Los Cabos 2014 To Screen BOYHOOD, LIFE ITSELF, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, And More
The third edition of the Los Cabos film festival looks really, really great. During five days (November 12-16), the festival will be premiering in Mexico Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making-epic, the acclaimed documentary on the late film critic Roger Ebert, the latest...
Exclusive Interview: ScreenAnarchy Talks To Steve James About LIFE ITSELF And More
It's a rare pleasure to be able to follow up with an interview subject on a given project. I had the pleasure of speaking with documentarian Steve James mere hours after his remarkable film, Life Itself, made its debut....
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and LIFE ITSELF
This week we look at the latest from the Apes franchise, as well as the lovely tribute to Roger Ebert, Life Itself.Video embedded below...
Review: LIFE ITSELF, Thumbs Up For Roger Ebert Doc
If you do what I do -- cherish film and have the chutzpah to tell other people what you think about them -- then you're almost certainly indebted to Roger Ebert. I've documented at length the effect that he had...
First Trailer: LIFE ITSELF, Roger Ebert Doc
"Truly remarkable" is how our own Jason Gorber described Life Itself, a documentary about film critic Roger Ebert that has been warmly received since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Directed by Steve James, Life Itself tracks...
Sundance 2014: Jason Gorber's Cineplex Diaries
In addition to regular reviews here at ScreenAnarchy, along with the weekly Twitchvision sements, I had the privilege this year to provide coverage for 2014 Sundance Film Festival for Cineplex.com Over the 11 days of the fest (along with two...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks Sundance 2014
Here's a special Sundance edition of Twitchvision, where I broadcast from the lobby of the Yarrow Hotel in Park City, Utah. The first segment has talk of the opening films, including The Overnighters, Adam Wingard's The Guest, and Michael Fassbender...
Sundance 2014 Review: Thumbs Up For Roger Ebert Doc LIFE ITSELF
If you do what I do -- cherish film and have the chutzpah to tell other people what you think about them -- then you're almost certainly indebted to Roger Ebert. I've documented at length the effect that he had...
THE INTERRUPTERS Review
The mean streets of inner city Chicago are no place to find yourself in a fight, and an even worse place to try to break one up. Yet that's exactly the mission of a small ragtag group of self-proclaimed...
Trailer Arrives for Steve James's Incredible Doc THE INTERRUPTERS
Pretty much anyone who has seen Steve James's (Hoop Dreams) new crime prevention doc at any of its multitude of fest dates (Sundance, SXSW, Seattle to name a few) has fallen in love. It has already secured a spot on...
