Mister Rogers Is Coming To The Big Screen

Mister Rogers Is Coming To The Big Screen


Mister Rogers Is Coming To The Big Screen

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the directing duo behind Little Miss Sunshine and Ruby Sparks, have found their next project with an adaptation of Tim Madigan's memoir I'm Proud Of You, which chronicles his close friendship with Fred Rogers, host and creator of the seminal children's television program Mister Roger's Neighborhood.The Wrap broke the news, citing that Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster have scripted Madigan's story which begins when Madgian was assigned a newspaper profile on Rogers in 1995, through Madigan's own dark times with his brother's death, and onto Rogers' own passing in 2003.Fred Rogers, a Presbyterian minister turned children's TV show host, educator and author is  arguably one of the most fascinating Americans of the 20th Century for a man who understood childhood...

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Stream Fantastic Fest 2013 Fave EEGA Online Now!

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT

SS Rajamouli's Eega recently stormed Fantastic Fest 2013, becoming one of the festival's surprise hits. If you couldn't make it to Austin for this week-long orgiastic celebration of all things film, don't worry, you still have a chance to check it out in the comfort of your own home.Arka MediaWorks in India recently introduced a new streaming service for Telugu film called ReleaseDay. One of their inaugural offerings is the international festival version of Eega, available for a very small PPV charge. The film is offered in the same version screened at Fantastic Fest for only $1.99, that's a pretty damned good deal for a cinematic experience that may just change your life.ReleaseDay is ramping up its releases to include more contemporary and classic Telugu...

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Review: HERB AND DOROTHY 50x50, Cleaning House And Sharing Art With A Smile

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Artists aspire to immortality in strange ways. The struggle to locate one tiny bit of infinity within a creation of a human mind can be a funny, bizarre and occasionally tedious experience to watch. Thankfully, Herb and Dorothy Vogel have no such aspirations. They understand people and pieces of art have different lifespans. After fifty years of  cramming their tiny apartment with all the contemporary art that could fit, Megumi Sasaki's Herb and Dorothy 50x50 documents the couple's declining health and their decision to get rid of it all. Herb and Dorothy 50x50 is more of a companion piece to Sasaki's earlier Herb and Dorothy than a sequel. Both films are about art and accessibility. The Vogels' entrance into the annals of art history (detailed...

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Lars Von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC Gets Literary In The Latest Clip

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

The marketing train for Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac keeps on rolling! All aboard for the latest clip, which is decidedly more somber and monochrome that what's been released previously. But at least the framing of this also-just released still promises that sex and death will not be separated! Anyway, here's the snippets of information about the clip. Read, watch, look and then leave work early and read Edgar Allen Poe in a dingy parking lot for the rest of the day. Chapter 4: Delirium - Confusion. Delusion. Hallucination. The nymphomaniac's father dies. ...

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Fantastic Fest 2013: Mattie Do Drunkenly Reviews Mattie Do's CHANTHALY

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:15 AM PDT

Todd told me that I have to do Biogno a critic of my film is fucking CALL CHANTHALY FIGO FIGISSIMO ! No, instead , my film a movie seems very slow and a little artistic ... communque me and I did not like the movie " artistic " ( did you see the "" "" ? ) Actually, artistic film is for all the envelopes showers ... CAPISCIE ? ! ? ! Envelopes SHOWER !So, my movies and fucking breaks and slaying because there MANGO -dog (dog) , the super greyhound. What the fuck I mean ... I do not remember ... or , I took many by JAMES VODKA with Twitchfilm ... and he is my POMPOM GIRL for this critical ... I mean...

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