Talk about awakening forces: The new Arkansas Cinema Society’s inaugural event, coming up Aug. 24-26, is bringing to town big-name film professionals to screen and talk about their films.
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Filmmakers with Arkansas connections selected for Sundance
“Dayveon,” the Arkansas-set debut feature film from Little Rock’s Amman Abbasi, has been selected to premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 19-29 in Utah. Joining it is the latest documentary from North Little Rock High school graduate Adam Sobel, “The Workers Cup.”
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‘Loving’ screening raises $10,000 for Tiger Foundation benefitting Central High
Little Rock native Jeff Nichols brought his new acclaimed film “Loving” to the Ron Robinson Theater last night ahead of the movie’s wide release on Friday. The ticketed event raised $10,000 for the Tiger Foundation, a nonprofit that benefits Central High School, Nichols’ alma mater.
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The trailer for Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’ looks great
The latest from Little Rock’s Jeff Nichols hits theaters Nov. 4. It’s Nichols’ telling of the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose marriage led to the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia, which ended laws preventing interracial marriage. Ruth Negga’s performance as Mildred Loving generated Oscar talk after the film debuted at Cannes.
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The show will go on for horror and sci-fi spin-off of LR Film Festival
Former organizers of the Little Rock Film Festival, which ended this year after a nine year run, have confirmed that the Little Rock Picture Show, the horror, fantasy and sci-fi focused spin-off that was part of the LRFF family of film festivals, would continue in conjunction with the River City Comic Expo in June.
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Riverdale 10 upgrades its seating
Breaking news, in a way: Starting this weekend, Riverdale 10 Cinema will be adding leather recliners to its theaters. We of course fully endorse this development, just as we endorse seating-and-comfort-upgrades in any local establishments.
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Watch the trailer for Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi epic ‘Midnight Special’
Here’s the first official trailer for Jeff Nichols’ latest, a sci-fi thriller starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver and Sam Shepard. Official synopsis:
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Trailer for “God’s Not Dead 2” is out, makes Baby Jesus cry.
The trailer for “God’s Not Dead 2,” the Little Rock-filmed sequel to “God’s Not Dead” (and inevitable prequel to “No, Seriously: God’s Very Much Alive and Well, I Assure You”) is out now on Youtube. The film is sure to make a gazillion dollars from the righteous looking to feed their martyr fantasies, and features plentiful Arkansas-related background stuff to make you go “Hey, it’s that place!” and a church bus full of B-listers to make you go “Hey, it’s that guy!”
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Little Rock Film Festival says goodbye
According to a brief note posted on their website this morning, the Little Rock Film Festival is no more:
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Watch the trailer for David Gordon Green’s ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’
I’m still waiting to see Little Rock native David Gordon Green’s last film, “Manglehorn,” starring Al Pacino — coming to Amazon Sept. 15 — but in the meantime, here’s the trailer for his forthcoming political comedy “Our Brand Is Crisis.” Produced by George Clooney’s Smoke House Pictures and based on the 2005 documentary directed by Rachel Boynton, the film stars Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Zooey Kazan, Ann Dowd and more.