Medicine for Melancholy

Chances are, if you're reading this site, you've heard of the word 'mumblecore.' You may have even used it in a sentence – as in, 'What's with all these mumblecore films at SXSW?' It's a term that's been kicking around for a few years, used by...

Premiering tomorrow at SXSW is this years-in-the-making documentary called For The Love of Movies: A History of American Film Criticism, narrated by Patricia Clarkson and directed by Gerald Peary and Amy Geller. As the current film critic struggles to...

Cinematical has just received this exclusive clip from the film Medicine for Melancholy, which hits theaters in New York City tomorrow before arriving On Demand next week and then expanding to other theaters on February 13. The film, which premiered at...

Many of this year's foreign and indie releases showed up on some of the more obscure top ten lists of 2008, and will no doubt be rolling out across the country in various irregular patterns all year long. For example, Steven Soderbergh's Che turned up on...

By Jette Kernion (original publication: 3/12/08 -- SXSW Film Festival) There's always one film at SXSW where I walk in completely cold, knowing nothing except that it fit the right timeslot for me, or that another festivalgoer strongly recommended it....