An Education

11/08/09 Debuting in "Preciouss shadow this weekend were two films that found nice numbers on sole New York screen debuts. Frederick Wiseman's doc "La Danse," which explores the Paris Opera Ballet, sold out all of its shows at New York's Film Forum over the weekend, grossing $14,000. That took its total to $21,220 since opening Wednesday. Due to the heavy demand, a second screen will be added at the Film Forum next Friday - a very rare occurrence at a theater with little flexibility due to their calendar programming. Since the grosses were only limited by the number of screenings and seats. The nearly three hour running time limited it to three screenings per day in a 150 seat theater. But, the theater reported that the Friday shows sold out hours in advance, and the first two shows on Saturday sold out before the first show even began. Perhaps not "Precious" impressive, but certainly a feat in its own right.  |  indieWIRE

11/04/09 Amiable and pleasant, Splinterheads revolves around a romance between Justin ( Thomas Middleditch ), an aimless small town dreamer, and Galaxy ( Rachael Taylor ), a gorgeous grifter who (literally) bumps into him at a gas station.  |  Cinematical.com

11/01/09 While "Michael Jackson's This Is It" amassed a stunning $101 million worldwide (though only a somewhat disappointing $21.3 million of that came from North America), three specialty openers attempted to get folks into cinemas in the midst of their Hallowe'en festivities.  |  indieWIRE

10/31/09 I'm in Savannah, Georgia to spend a week as a guest blogger for the Savannah Film Festival , an eight-day fest hosted in the historic Southern town by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). [  |  Cinematical.com

10/30/09 Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?" purrs sexy next-door neighbor Mrs. Samsky in the Coen brothers' 1967-set "A Serious Man." The question looms large over a number of this year's award-season films, many of them set either on the cusp of that moment of revolutionary change in the '60s ("An Education," "A Single Man"), during its heyday ("A Serious Man," "Nine," "Pirate Radio") or as its gleam began to wear off and turn darker ("The Damned United," "The Lovely Bones").  |  Variety

10/29/09 From Doc Ock to Joe Orton's homicidal lover, Alfred Molina has run the gamut.  |  The A.V. Club

10/28/09 Via our friends at indieWIRE , we learn that Brian Baugh's faith-based To Save a Life will be released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in January 2010.  |  Cinematical.com

10/27/09 You won't often see Peter Sarsgaard act.  |  The A.V. Club

10/25/09 Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" leads the pool of nominations announced Monday for this year's British Independent Film Awards with eight spanning all major categories.  |  The Hollywood Reporter

10/25/09 At a recent screening for "An Education," as star Peter Sarsgaard and director Lone Scherfig moved easily through the crowd, a debate broke out about the movie's relationship between a 30-year-old man and a teenage girl in 1960s London.  |  The Hollywood Reporter