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Indy Film Fest: Saturday morning cartoons

Maxwell Cothrel — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:20:00 -0400

It’s been years since I was awake early enough to catch any Saturday morning cartoons. But I threw a couple spoonfuls of sugar into my all-natural, healthy-tasting cereal and headed off to the sanctuary of the Earth House Collective to catch an Indy Film Fest’s program featuring an eclectic sampling of animated shorts.…

We Are City doc series launches at IMA

Abby Wood — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:24:00 -0500

The minds behind the We Are City film series — which kicks off Thursday at the IMA — hope to spark foster active discussion on urban life via three documentaries.

“We need constant creative effort to improve the way life is lived in the Circle City.…

Review: 'Eames: The Architect and the Painter'

Marc Allan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:41:00 -0500

Although Eames: The Architect and the Painter played on TV in December as part of PBS’ American Masters series, you’re better off seeing it in a theater. This film deserves to be watched with minimal distractions so you can concentrate on the shapes, colors and imagery.…

AnC Films' sex ed doc nearly complete

Paul F. P. Pogue — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:19:00 -0500

Our old friends at AnC Films, producers of such short films as Embolism, Moustache, Him Her Roland - and the most absolutely bonkers Christmas cards you will ever see - are seeking some help from the moviegoing public to take their most ambitious project across the finish line.

They boast an impressive resume of shorts and mid-length projects, but the documentary Science, Sex and the Ladies is the first full-length project from Barnaby Aaron, Trisha Borowicz and Charlie Borowicz.…

American Masters: Woody Allen

Marc Allan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:30:00 -0500

Woody Allen: American Masters
9 p.m., Nov. 20 and 21
WFYI (Channel 20)

I’d like to thank Woody Allen someday. For Annie Hall and Manhattan, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose and Zelig, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Match Point and Midnight in Paris.…

Heartland reviews: Take two

NUVO Editors — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:45:00 -0400

Our second batch of Heartland reviews includes some excellent documentaries and an adorable narrative feature about nervous French people falling in love. Check out our first round of reviews here.…

Slideshow: IndyFilmFest Closing Night 2011

Stacy Kagiwada — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:15:00 -0400

The closing night of the 2011 Indianapolis International Film Festival was held at the IMA. After remarks from IFF President Craig Mince, Mayor Greg Ballard, and Festival Managing Director Lisa Trifone, there was a screening of the Closing Night Feature These Amazing Shadows, a documentary about the National Film Registry.…

Slideshow: IndyFilmFest Agio After-Party

Stacy Kagiwada — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:05:00 -0400

The 2011 Indianapolis International Film Festival has officially come to a close, after a 10-day festival. There were screenings of movies from across the world, with a plethora of films and workshops to attend.…

Slideshow: Opening night at IndyFilmFest

Jim Poyser — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:32:00 -0400

The opening night of the Indianapolis International Film Festival was held at the Toby Theatre at the IMA. After remarks from IFF President and COO Craig Mince, Festival Managing Director Lisa Trifone and the IMA's Anne Laker, we were treated to a screening of Mark Cahill's Another Earth, a compelling film about loss and love, told through a fascinating science-fiction-y point of view.…

First-ever Hendricks County Film Festival

Caroline Thomas — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:00:00 -0400

This Saturday, April 30, the inaugural Hendricks County Film Festival will be unveiled at the Rave Motion Pictures in Plainfield’s Metropolis Mall. This is a one-day event, including three separate screenings.…

Artcraft Theater's Shorts In January

Derrick Carnes — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:00:00 -0500

Franklin’s Artcraft Theater, one of Indiana’s oldest picture-show gems, will soon be spinning its reels in the name of local film. On Saturday, Jan. 29, the historic theater will host Shorts In January, a back-to-back screening of four films from three Indiana-based filmmakers, presented by 3Wizemen Productions.…

Peter Weir's "The Way Back"

Jim Poyser — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:50:00 -0500

To list the great films by Peter Weir is a boggling enterprise. He first came onto my personal radar as an art-film maker, a la Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, movies I saw in my own personal coming-of-age in college.…

PRIDE Film Festival in Bloomington

Jim Poyser — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:30:00 -0500

Straight out of Bloomington, Indiana, the PRIDE Film Festival will present its 8th annual cinematic celebration of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgendered communities at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Jan. 27 — 30.

Every year, PRIDE extends a motley collection of programs for anyone interested, be they bi-curious film buffs or arrow-straight passersby who can’t resist the fun.…

Passion and pain: Pollock (DVD)

Chi Sherman — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:00:00 -0500

Eventually I will stop talking about how awesome Netflix is. Today is not that day.

Last weekend, still on an artist's high (it's like a runner's high but with less jogging) after watching Modigliani, I queued up Pollock, the 2000 biopic of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock starring Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden.…

Indiana Film Journalists name 2010 "Bests"

NUVO Editors — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:50:00 -0500

The Indiana Film Journalists Association (www.indianafilmcritics.com), a group of journalists dedicated to promoting quality film criticism in the Hoosier State, has announced its annual film picks for 2010, some of which are on screen over this holiday season.

To be eligible, a film must have played theatrically in Indiana during the 2010 calendar year, screened to state critics in advance of a 2011 general release date, or play in a Hoosier State film festival such as Indianapolis International Film Festival or Heartland Film Festival.…

The tortured artist: "Modigliani" (DVD)

Chi Sherman — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:02:00 -0500

A few months ago, NUVO's intrepid web editor, Laura McPhee, posted a clip from 2004's Modigliani (starring Andy Garcia) on her Facebook page, calling the five-minute excerpt "her kind of porn."

I watched the clip. I liked it.…

Submissions now open for The Indianapolis International Film Festival

Derrick Carnes — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:36:00 -0500

One more reason why it’s cool to live in Indiana — submissions are now open for the 2011 Indianapolis International Film Festival, hosted July 14 - 24 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. No matter if you’re an amateur, an Oscar award winner, a B-movie horror director, or a rom-com producer—you’re invited to submit your work to this annual event in the Indy arts scene.…

The Wet Your Pants Comedy Film Festival 2010

Derrick Carnes — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:46:00 -0400

The second annual Wet Your Pants Comedy Film Festival is coming back to the Indianapolis Art Center Nov. 13 and 14. Dedicated to raising money and awareness for kidney disease, the festival began in honor of Steven Pearce who worked to raise awareness of kidney disease before he succumbed to its complications in 2009.…

RifftraxLive takes on House on Haunted Hill

Katie Schenkel — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:31:00 -0400

I have a theory that most bad movies can be made at least bearable if you're watching with the right people. Whether experiencing old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes or their newer stuff on Rifftrax, funnymen Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson are three of those people for me. Because of them, I've been able to watch Transformers 2 without goring my eyes out (sadly, I still died a little inside).…

How Kazuo Ishiguro and Mark Romanek differ from Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott

Jim Poyser — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:29:00 -0400

Talk to any science fiction movie fan and Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner is in the top ten sci-fi films of all time. It’s a gritty, fully realized vision of the future, where android hunter Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, guns down Nexus 6 androids, led by Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer.…

The Heartland Film Festival Lineup

Katie Schenkel — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:37:41 -0400

For 19 years, the Heartland Film Festival has recognized and honored filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life.

While last year’s festival had a record-breaking 87 films, this year will showcase a whopping 102 American and International films.…

"Reefer Madness" riffed by Rifftrax

Katie Schenkel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:41:00 -0400

There are few things in this world I love more than Mystery Science Theater 3000, the cult 90s TV show that featured Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy (aka Mike and his robots Crow and Tom Servo) mocking crappy old movies. That love is extended to Rifftrax, the online commentaries of newer movies (including the Transformers series and the Star Wars Prequels) by Nelson, Corbett and Murphy.…

Can Christopher Nolan save the summer movie season?

Daniel Domsic — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:12:08 -0400

The director behind the enormously successful Batman adventure, The Dark Knight, will return to the big screen in a week with the promising thriller Inception.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a crook who helps people hide valuable information in their own subconscious - just to turn around and steal it.…