Check out the lineup for the 20th Hamptons International Film Festival!

Love Etc is coming to a theater near you. Don’t miss it.

James Franco plays, Aron Ralston, in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, the tale of how one man lived to tell the story of how he nearly died after being trapped under a rock.

Great filmmaking is the product of creativity, vision, determination, and risk taking.  For a documentary to be successful, all those factors need to be present but a director must be able to tell a story through live footage of others.  In this case, documentaries typically don’t follow a set script as dramatic feature films otherwise would.  Thus, to [...]

Defying no one’s expectations, world-class filmmaker Alex Gibney, who won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2007 for Taxi to the Dark Side, certainly delivers on his latest documentary feature, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Especially for someone like me, who does not devote much time to following politics, the film [...]

Cool It, a documentary directed by Ondi Timoner, screened this weekend at the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival. The film documents a different approach to solving the problem of global warming, focusing on Bjorn Lomborg’s (author of Cool It) ideas of putting the money that would be used to have hardly any effect on solving global [...]

A short documentary about how music heals post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”), Striking a Chord tells the story of many soldiers dealing with the horrors of war.  Much like how last year’s Oscar winner The Hurt Locker depicted life in Iraq, Striking a Chord actually gave soldiers the opportunity to talk about the emotional backdrops of [...]

This weekend, a disheveled but pleasant James Franco graced us with his presence at the 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival. He arrived fashionably late, and therefore had to cut the Q & A a little short, but he was kind enough to stay a while after to sign autographs and take pictures–so I guess we [...]

Old Boys, a foreign film by first time director/writer Nikolaj Steen, screened this weekend at the Hamptons Film Festival. The film is a dramedy about the hilarious journey an elderly man, Vagn, undergoes when he is forgotten by his soccer teammates, who were on their way to their match in Sweden, and ends up hitching [...]

Reviewed: Eric Mendelsohn’s “3 Backyards”.

Fair Game, directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity & Swingers), tells the controversial true  story of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, a married couple both working for their country who were betrayed by their government.  While some of you might know the story, I actually did not prior to seeing the film, and thus [...]

How can I put this delicately? Kisses, Chloe is awful. It feels good to get that off my chest. Ninety minutes of talking, talking, talking. No one loves good, interesting dialogue more than I do. (There are millions of people who like good, interesting dialogue.) Well, this movie had plenty of gabbing, but never said [...]

Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel’s Louder Than A Bomb will show at the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival this weekend. The documentary follows four high school poetry teams as they compete in Chicago’s annual poetry slam, or competition, Louder Than A Bomb. There are lots of stories to be heard in addition to the poetry that [...]

After my viewing of Cherry, I was lucky enough to interview the writer/director Jeffrey Fine. When asked about the inspiration for the movie, he told me that it was based on his undergrad experience. Here’s a few things he shared with me about the making of this film. On his freshman year: • “There was [...]

I’m a huge Disney fan, and we all know the basic plot line of every animated Disney classic. A handsome and valiant prince. The beautiful princess. They fall in love. A conflict arises. They overcome it and live happily ever after. Too good to be true. Even one of my favorite television series, Sex and [...]

I recently had one of the greatest conversations ever with Jill Andresevic, the director of Love, Etc., a documentary that will be premiering at the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival this weekend. Instead of just writing a summary and then telling you to see it, I’ll let you hear what Andresevic, herself, had to say about [...]

The Hampton’s Film Festival starts on Thursday and your favorite team here at TheMovieBanter.com will be covering the festival. We are very excited to get out there this weekend and get cracking. Ron Ashley will also be with the team for all those Ron Ashley fans. Anyways, on our ‘To Do’ list are a couple [...]

A college freshman falling in love with an older woman is not a revolutionary idea for a movie. When you throw in that the older woman’s teenage daughter is in love with said college freshman, things get a little more interesting. Make the kid a genius, and you have yourself a truly unconventional little movie. [...]

Now online is the trailer for Geroge Hickenlooper’s (Heart of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, Factory Girl) new movie Casino Jack. The film stars none other than Kevin Spacey whom I personally love. Can’t wait. It also premieres at the Hamptons Film Festival, starting on October 7th. Spacey is a great actor. With his Oscar winning [...]

The 18th annual Hamptons Film Festival (“HFF”) is upon us.  The quickly growing festival starts Oct 7 and runs through Oct 11. Among the spotlight films premiering at the festival is the heavily anticipated 127 Hours. Also included in the spotlight films is Friedo Pinto’s (Slumdog Millionaire) new film Miral, Doug Liman’s (director of Bourne [...]