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January 24, 2007
Slack jawed, Hounddog, and Mr. Donohue (not) at the movies
If there's one thing OC Weekly has in plentiful supply, it's Catholics of varying stripes-- devout, cafeteria, lapsed, vigorously lapsed, potential anti-pope-- with colorful and occasionally bizarre stories from their contacts with Holy Mother Church and its numerous franchises and subsidiaries. Fr ... More >>
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April 21, 2007
Vietnamese Film Festival Closes on Sunday
Every two years Ysa D. Le and the volunteers at the Vietnamese International Film Festival do an extraordinary job showcasing the latest in Vietnamese film talent. As residents of Orange County we are blessed to have this weeklong event based here. If you're interested, hop over to UCI on Sunday. Th ... More >>
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September 6, 2007
SoCal Independent Film Festival: Opening Night
The library certainly isn't quiet tonight. There's a red carpet outside, though nobody's walking on it. There are some surprisingly nice T-shirts for sale. And everyone here is totally approachable – can this really be a film festival? Indeed. It's the opening night of the SoCal Independent Film ... More >>
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April 9, 2009
[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Dr. No,' 'Dr. Strangelove,' 'Suzuka,' More
The library certainly isn't quiet tonight. There's a red carpet outside, though nobody's walking on it. There are some surprisingly nice T-shirts for sale. And everyone here is totally approachable – can this really be a film festival? Indeed. It's the opening night of the SoCal Independent Film ... More >>
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January 15, 2009
Passare I Popcorn
Cinema Italiano: Le Chiavi de Casa
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May 19, 2009
Triple Threat in Newport Tomorrow: Terminator, McG and Dan Aykroyd
Whoa, it's like the Newport Beach Film Festival is all "I'll be bawck" and stuff. Huh? What we're trying to say is, the recently concluded NBFF will be presenting a special preview screening of the upcoming Terminator: Salvation -- tomorrow night!Tickets are $20, and proceeds go to the film festival ... More >>
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April 10, 2008
Laugh Gently
Craig Shoemaker
Film
April 1, 1999
Beyond Politics
Asian fest films get personal
Film
May 17, 2007
Lumieres Descendent: Thierry Fremaux
Cannes artistic director
Film
April 26, 2007
Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: Camille
Film
April 16, 2009
[Special Screenings] Festival Mania!
Movie of the Week: Camille
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January 26, 2006
Why Film Critics Fight
Our reviewers go warhead to warhead over Why We Fight
Features
October 30, 2003
The Best Movie Theater Ever
Our reviewers go warhead to warhead over Why We Fight
Film
September 20, 2001
Big Screen Blowouts
Prepare your bums for funky film fests
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April 24, 2009
Newport Beach Film Fest Opens With Flick, Vodka, Hot Porn Action!
Photos by Bleu Cotton The scene at Fashion Island.The 10th Newport Beach Film Festival opened Thursday night at Edwards "Big Newport" with "celebrity" arrivals, flashing cameras and my exclusive red-carpet interview with Oscar-nominated film composer Marc Shaiman of Hairspray! and South Park: ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
"Spooner" Picks Up Another Award
Herman (Matthew Lillard) and Rose (Nora Zehetner) jump into their relationship.Spooner, the romantic comedy that was directed by former Santa Ana resident Drake Doremus and stars former Tustin resident Matthew Lillard in the title role (and which won a rave here as well as an Outstanding Achievement ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
SoCal Film Festival Rolls in Huntington Beach
Above are trailers to 17 pictures playing at the fifth anniversary SoCal Film Festival, which kicks off tonight at Huntington Beach Central Library and over the next 10 days will present 204 feature films, documentaries and shorts.
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October 8, 2009
UCI Fall Film Program Hosts Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-Liang, Stanley Kubrick, Yes Men, Kirby Dick and Closeted Gay Politicians
Kirby Dick is coming to Irvine to screen "Outrage," his documentary on closeted gay politicians.UC Irvine's Film and Video Center was late in releasing details of its fall program because the FVC's tiny and tireless staff was unsure whether there would even be a program. (Thank you, UC system acr ... More >>
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January 24, 2010
Sundance Report: Sitting on a Bus With Colin Hanks
"Orange County" starFrom a Friday morning plane ride to Salt Lake City with Todd Lowe to a Saturday afternoon bus ride through Park City with Colin Hanks. Since it's a confirmed fact everything happens in threes, one wonders what the next mode of transportation/young star combo will b ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Drake Doremus' 'Douchebag' at Sundance
OC stage prodigy-turned-filmmaker Drake Doremus brings his 'very personal' movie to Park City, Utah
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February 12, 2010
Anaheim International Film Festival to Roll in October
The Anaheim International Film Festival (AIFF), not to be confused with the ongoing movie-promoting theme park at Harbor and Katella, debuts in October, "marking the addition of a world-class cultural event to Orange County and the international film festival circuit," according to organizers. Th ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Anaheim International Film Festival Previews With Temecula Wines, Short Films on a Loop and Super Sexy Manny Medrano
A "historic moment" happened last night on the third level of the GardenWalk outdoor shopping mall (just follow the Disney Tower of Terror shadow)--historic not just for Anaheim but California and the whole world as we know it, according to Sinan Kanatsiz.www.facebook.com/anaheimfilmAIFF co-found ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Some Like It Hot
Orange County Performing Arts Center
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July 29, 2010
8: The Mormon Proposition
Art Theatre
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September 9, 2010
Anaheim International Film Festival Theater Site is a No-Brainer
The announcement that UltraStar Cinemas at GardenWalk in Anaheim will be the official theater venue for the inaugural Anaheim International Film Festival (AIFF) packs all the wallop of heavily favored Jeff Bridges getting the last best actor Oscar.Seeing as how the festival office and its May pr ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Get Farmer's Tan, Head to OC Film Fiesta
Farmer's TanThe local film scene heats up this weekend with the San Clemente screening of a film about an Orange County high school student facing shame for taking his farmer's tan to school and the Santa Ana continuation of the OC Film Fiesta.
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October 13, 2010
Best of the Fest: Monica and David at AIFF
The inaugural Anaheim International Film Festival kicks off tonight with screenings of Jonathan Lynn's Wild Target, Mamoru Hosoda's Summer Wars, the U.S. premiere of David Bradbury's Going Vertical: The Shortboard Revolution and special presentations of short films and the John Hughes' Brat Pack ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Best of the Fest: Mandrill at AIFF
Video store schlock-influenced Quentin Tarantino has gone on to influence countless young American filmmakers, but who knew his reach extended to Chile? Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, all of 32, minds his P's and Q with Mandrill, a Spanish-language, revenge-exploitation flick presented tonight at the in ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Anaheim International Film Fest Opens With Hot Waifs, a Cool Video and a Windy Director
The inaugural Anaheim International Film Festival opened Wednesday night at GardenWalk with five movie programs, a lauded UK director with a gift for gab, creepy Knott's Berry Farm Halloween Haunt extras, incredibly tall waifs gliding across the red carpet in incredibly high heels and a packed-in ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebrated Tonight at South Coast Village
Fans of Boo Radley, crusading lawyers and middle school book report fodder unite!Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published 50 years ago, and the Regency South Coast Village Theatre in Santa Ana is celebrating with a screening of Robert Mulligan's much-beloved movie version, which came out ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Bread and Tulips
Bowers Museum
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January 19, 2011
Ben York Jones and His Chapman Pals Storm Sundance
The Weekly introduced readers to actor Ben York Jones a year ago, right after the Corona del Mar resident and his childhood pal, filmmaker Drake Doremus, stormed the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with their dramedy Douchebag.Jones returns to Park City, Utah, with Doremus' new indie-drama, Like Craz ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Wanted: Teen Filmmakers (By Volcom and Newport Beach Film Festival)
Volcom and the Newport Beach Film Festival are looking for teen filmmakers--not for any nasty purposes, but to generate submissions for the annual spring youth cinema celebration.This will be the seventh year of the Youth Film Showcase that runs during the Newport Beach Film Festival, whose 2011 ... More >>
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January 23, 2011
[UPDATED] Like Crazy, Latest Film From OC-Bred Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, Is First Sundance Sale
UPDATE, JAN. 23, 2:51 P.M.: The reaction to Like Crazy getting picked up from Ben York Jones:"I'm completely overwhelmed. I don't think anyone here with the film has gotten more than an hour or two of sleep in the past 36 hours. Those negotiating were up all night doing so, and the rest of us w ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Like Crazy at Sundance: Let's Get Social
It's madness to think how fast the week has gone. Friday, and I'm still pinching myself, expecting to wake up. An informal study I've been conducting via highly advanced methods of verbal interaction (having a conversation, some call it) seems to indicate most filmmakers here, including myself, a ... More >>
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January 30, 2011
Like Crazy, Indie Drama From OC's Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, Wins Sundance Grand Jury Prize
Like Crazy, the little indie darling at Sundance by former Santa Anan and second-time U.S. Dramatic Competition entrant Drake Doremus, won the prestigious film festival's grand jury prize last night.Co-written by Doremus and his childhood friend Ben York Jones, a Chapman University film school gr ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Like Crazy at Sundance: WE WON!!!!!!
There's a lot of recapping to be done, but before anything else, last night--WE WON THE GRAND JURY PRIZE!!!!!!! The big one! Not only that, Felicity was awarded a Special Jury Prize for Best Actress! A prize is not given every year, unless deemed appropriate. The whole team was in disbelief. For ... More >>
Film
February 4, 2011
Into the Mystic
Cults and the uncertain futures dominate Sundance
Film
February 4, 2011
Sundancing With Ben York Jones and Like Crazy
The huge film festival success through the eyes of its co-writer, an OC boy
Film
March 3, 2011
'Spooner' Is Love Crazy
Recently crowned Sundance king Drake Doremus' early promise is evident in his directorial debut
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April 15, 2011
Vietnamese Film Festival Hits Final Three Days
Heightened US-Vietnamese relationsThis weekend is you last chance to witness firsthand the emerging, impressive Vietnamese film industry at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County.Tonight's films air at the Bower's Museum in Santa Ana and include a 56-minute movie about the Ha ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
12 Newport Beach Film Festival Picks from Movie Critics Far and Wide
This week's edition of OC Weekly includes 12 films that most excite the Newport Beach Film Festival programmers who selected them--in honor of the 12th year of the county's most-established cinextravaganza.But what of those other trend-setters: universally beloved film critics? Your humble servan ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Fred Durst Douchebag vs. Drake Doremus Douchebag
Douchebag the movie.Before Drake Doremus' Like Crazy won the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the Orange-born writer-director's previous dramedy Douchebag was nominated in the same category at the same prestigious event the year before. Now, as reported earlier on ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Kevin Smith Screens Red State Twice Tonight; Co-Writer Ben York Jones Rolls Like Crazy
Director Kevin Smith continues his Red State barnstorming in Long Beach tonight, presenting the Westboro Baptistesque shoot 'em up twice--and sticking around each time to take audience questions. Meanwhile, over in Newport Beach, there's a members-only screening of Santa Ana-bred filmmaker Drake ... More >>
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November 12, 2011
[UPDATED with Director Hating 3D:] Bong Joon-ho Opens Busan West Festival at Chapman University with 3D Version of The Host
UPDATE, NOV. 12, 9:37 A.M.: Introducing a new 3D version of his 2006 South Korean smash hit The Host to Friday's opening night Busan West Asian Film Festival audience at Chapman University's Knott Studios, director Bong Joon-ho said, "I don't like 3D."Cue nervous audience laughter and a smatteri ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
The Artist Adds 1st Ever OC Film Society Best Picture Award to New York Film Critics Honor
The Orange County Film Society screening of the sorta-silent, black-and-white, buzz-deserving The Artist Monday night drew a packed audience to the historic Lido in Newport Beach, insider stories from executive producer Richard Middleton and supporting actors James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Mille ... More >>
Film
January 12, 2012
Irvine International Film Festival Is Full of Hidden Gems
Jack Kaprielian and Kevin Derek bring the unscreened to OC
Film
January 26, 2012
Sundance, In Crisis
The 2012 fest was thick with the anxieties of our times
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