Operation Filmmaker News

12/30/08 Moviefone I almost called this a 'Watch This' post, and then a 'Fan Rant', but either way, the general idea is that I'd recommend all of you to tune in or at least record PBS tonight for the 11 PM EST broadcast premiere of Nina Davenport's terrific documentary, Operation Filmmaker , in which a young Iraqi film student is invited to work on the set of Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated and how that experience begins to unravel for all involved -- Davenport included (and that's not to mention appearances from Elijah Wood and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as themselves!).  |  Cinematical.com

12/30/08 A final look back at 2008... this time featuring top ten lists from the editors of indieWIRE and industry insiders.  |  indieWIRE

12/29/08 As the Korean New Wave fades and dissipates, from a throng of cultural force fields to a mere battery of individual filmographies, ambitious or withering or otherwise, one director stands as the most passionately embraced and steadily distributed in the tradition of imported art films.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)

06/17/08 Moviefone Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson owes at least some of his fame to the way his dominating figure fits the blockbuster action stereotype with near-mechanical sleekness.  |  Cinematical.com