GreenCine Daily
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Located San Francisco, California USA
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The Daily delivers film festival dispatches, filmmaker and actor interviews, film analysis and podcasts. It is joined at the hip with GreenCine.com, the online DVD rent-by-mail service.
Latest Blog Posts
- PODCAST: Michael Shannon on Nov 22, 2009 in Podcasts
If you know actor Michael Shannon by name, chances are it's because of his searing, Oscar-nominated performance as head-case John Givings in last year's Revolutionary Road. Yet the Kentucky-born Brooklynite has brought his towering presence and curio...
- DVD OF THE WEEK: The Exiles on Nov 20, 2009 in DVD of the Week
by Jeffrey M. Anderson The Exiles directed by Kent MacKenzie 1961, 72 minutes, USA Milestone Films Most people have probably never heard of Kent MacKenzie's historically and culturally essential film The Exiles (1961). Some clips of it surf...
- PODCAST: Werner Herzog on Nov 18, 2009 in Podcasts
From the official website of valiant filmmaker Werner Herzog's delightfully bonkers new feature, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which should not be called a remake of Abel Ferrara's grimy 1992 cult classic: Nicolas Cage plays a rogue dete...
- PODCAST: Jason Schwartzman on Nov 13, 2009 in Podcasts
In director Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox (read Vadim Rizov's "Film of the Week" review), 29-year-old actor Jason Schwartzman—who began his screen career working with Anderson as the overambitious teen hero of R...
- FILM OF THE WEEK: Fantastic Mr. Fox on Nov 13, 2009 in Film of the Week
by Vadim Rizov Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson's sixth feature and third to be pre-judged as a "Wes Anderson" film—a calcified pejorative often bearing little relation to what the movies are actually like. A "Wes Anderson movie," we're...
- DVD OF THE WEEK: Spread on Nov 11, 2009 in DVD of the Week
Spread directed by David Mackenzie 2009, 97 minutes, USA Anchor Bay Films Maybe it's a misnomer to hail an Ashton Kutcher indie vehicle the week's highest recommendation (the case certainly won't be made here that it's more or less worthwhile view...
- DVD OF THE WEEK & PODCAST: Wings of Desire on Nov 7, 2009 in Podcasts
In celebration of Criterion's deluxe double-DVD and Blu-ray treatment of Wings of Desire, my Benten Films partner-in-crime Andrew Grant and I rewatched Wim Wenders' 1987 masterpiece (and pored over the bonus features) to discuss the film's elusive ma...
