Movie News
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TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME Interview with director Olivia Lichtenstein
TEDDY PENDERGRASS: IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME was the Closing Night film at the 27th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival – a documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Philly’s own Teddy Pendergrass. The night before I got a chance to chat with the director Olivia Lichtenstein and producer Nick Bedu about the making of the doc., how much time they spent in Philly, the darker side of Teddy, the music, the tragedy and the come back of this sexy and soulful entertainer gone too soon.
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Best & Worst Movies of 2018 (Top 10 List)
Le Anne Lindsay, Editor of Tinsel & Tine looks back at the movies of 2018 breaking the list down into best, worst, and honorable mentioned.
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An Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective at Lightbox Film Center
Tinsel & Tine Highlights INGMAR BERGMAN- CENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE 2018 marks the centennial of one of the most influential artists in film history. Lightbox Film Center will join in a global celebration (#Bergman100) September 6 through 21, with Autumn Sonata: An Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective, a three-week program exploring 10 titles from the legendary filmmaker’s extraordinary body of work. “Bergman has long been an important figure within our film program,” says Jesse Pires, Lightbox chief curator. “For many of our longtime members his films, like those of Fellini and Godard, were a gateway to European arthouse cinema. The stories are timeless and the films are meticulously crafted. It’s exciting to devote…
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CRAZY RICH ASIANS
Tinsel & Tine’s look at Jon M. Chu’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Remember the first time you saw Pretty Woman and Vivienne (Julia Roberts) strolls back into the posh shop which had snubbed her on Rodeo drive, loaded with shopping bags, asking the sales person if she works on commission – “Big Mistake, Huge!” Well, there’s a similarly satisfying scene of judgement and retribution which opens the movie Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu, based on a bestselling 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan. Constance Wu plays Rachel Chou, a NYU Econ professor. For the last year she’s been dating Nick Young, a guy she assumes…
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BLACKSTAR Film Festival Interviews with Filmmakers 2018
The 7th Annual BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia gets underway shortly (August 2-4, 2018) for a fun highlight of the festival, I asked several of the filmmakers screening short films to answer the same 5 Questions. Check out their enlightening answers.
