To celebrate the DVD release of Aaron Rose’s epic art documentary, Beautiful Losers, approximately a million rad people and entities including Amoeba Music and Oscilloscope Laboritories are coming together to host an all-out bash at Cinefamily in Los Angeles. Spike, Harmony Korine, Geoff...

Introducing two new Wild Things renditions from the wilds of the web! First up (above), a pair of artfully-rendered stompers by the talented Evan Schultz. Second (below) a Wild Things cake that is either ten-feet tall or photographed in such a way as to look GIANT. Either way, cool beans!

SUNDANCE 2010: U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION This year 16 films were selected from 862 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. Film information from the Sundance Film Festival website. Bhutto (Directors: Jessica Hernandez and Johnny O’Hara; Screenwriter: Johnny O’Hara) — A riveting journey through the life and work of recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister and a polarizing figure in the Muslim world. World Premiere CASINO JACK & The United States of Money (Director: Alex Gibney) — A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies. World Premiere Family Affair (Director: Chico...

SUNDANCE 2010: WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION The Red Chapel by Mads Brügger This year’s 12 films were selected from 782 international documentary submissions. Film information from the Sundance Film Festival website. A Film Unfinished / Germany, Israel (Director: Yael Hersonski) — Film reels uncovered in Nazi archives reveal the mechanisms used to stage Warsaw Ghetto life–images which have shaped our view of history. World Premiere Enemies of the People / Cambodia, United Kingdom (Directors: Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath) — A young journalist whose family was killed by the Khmer Rouge befriends the perpetrators of the Killing Fields genocide, evoking shocking revelations. U.S. Premiere...

SUNDANCE 2010: WORLD CINEMA NARRATIVE COMPETITION Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda in Me Too by Álvaro Pastor, Antonio Naharro This year’s 14 films were selected from 1,022 international narrative feature submissions. Film information from the Sundance Film Festival website. All that I Love / Poland (Director and Screenwriter: Jacek Borcuch) — In 1981, during the growing Polish Solidarity movement, four small-town teenagers form a punk rock band with the hope of playing at a local festival. Cast: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Jakub Gierszal, Mateusz Banasiuk, Olga Frycz, Igor Obloza. North American Premiere Animal Kingdom / Australia (Director and Screenwriter: David Michôd) — After the death of his...

Sundance 2010: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION Aaron Tveit, James Franco in Howl by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman The 16 films listed below were selected from 1,058 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. Film information from the Sundance Film Festival website. Blue Valentine (Director: Derek Cianfrance; Screenwriters: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis) — Blue Valentine is the story of love lost and love found told in two parallel moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in this honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks. Cast: Ryan...

Let's start with the big film news of the day, namely that the Sundance 2010 slate has been announced (the Auteurs rounds up links to the various sections here) and that James Franco makes for a damn good looking Allen Ginsberg (see above still from Howl). Second, check...

Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Henry Selick’s Coraline (above), Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Princess and the Frog, Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, and Pete Docter’s Up are the six best animated feature nominees for the International Animated Film Society’s 2010 Annie Awards. The winner will be announced on Feb. 6, 2010. Four of the above films have also been shortlisted in the best director category; Tomm Moore and the duo Ron Clements and John Musker were replaced by one man: Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki, for Ponyo. Somewhat surprisingly, Coraline leads the pack with ten nods. Up, one of the year’s biggest...

2009 National Board of Review Awards 2009 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 3, 2009 � Morgan Freeman in Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, whose Letters from Iwo Jima took top honors at the NBR Awards in 2006. Don’t be surprised if Eastwood does it again this year. � The winners of the National Board of Review awards will be announced tomorrow, Dec. 3. It’s really hard to predict who or what will win, as the NBR has gone both very mainstream (Finding Neverland) and somewhat offbeat (Letters from Iwo Jima) in the recent past, but it’s worth noting that in the last 10 years, nine of the winning best pictures have gone on to get an Academy Award nomination in that category; [...]