From Machine Project: Echo Park Medicinal Forage with Nance Klehm Wednesday, Dec 9th, 2009 7-8:30pm Cost: $15/person An after dark exploration of the sidewalk cracks around Machine Project for local medicinal plants, led by Nance Klehm. Get ready for the long winter dry, cold haul with simple...

Having been raised in a military family, whenever I watch films about service people I have a list to tick off of irritating improbabilities and blatant failures of fact-checking. It's how I imagine a sports fan feels watching any movie...

Tom McCarthy lists the books that have most influenced him in Frieze Magazine. He cites Macbeth, Tonio Kröger, Heart of Darkness, Where the Wild Things Are, The Castafiore Emerald, Gravity’s Rainbow, Nova Express, The Post Card, The Sound and the Fury, The Voyeur, Moby-Dick, The Gaze of Orpheus...

So what's your favorite film of the decade -- Lost in Translation or There Will Be Blood? Who's your favorite director -- the Coen brothers or Steven Soderbergh? We want to hear what our readers feel was the best in American independent and specialty films in the 2000's. Take our survey and the results will be printed in our upcoming Winter issue. And by taking the survey you'll receive a discount code to half-off a print subscrption. Enjoy!

“I’m staying because it’s the right thing to do,” she said hoarsely. “Because Jules and I made a commitment and because I want to wake up to something isn’t a fucking horror show of constant defeat.” She blew into her hands and squinted at me. “I don’t know what to do,” I said. [...]

Having been raised in a military family, whenever I watch films about service people I have a list to tick off of irritating improbabilities and blatant failures of fact-checking. It's how I imagine a sports fan feels watching any movie...

The International Necronautical Society will hold a general meeting in London on Monday 14 December to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the INS’s founding manifesto. INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy will review ten years of necronautical activity and make an announcement. We can...

Yesterday, Sundance announced the rest of it’s feature lineup for the 2010 edition of the venerated indie film festival…��� The incredible slate of titles is split into five sections, Premieres, NEXT, Spotlight, New Frontiers, and Park City at Midnight. Among the selections were many friends of IndiePix, and we’d like to send a giant congratulations [...]

by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] Parts of...