Indie Filmmakers Toast Wine-Tasting Comedy
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A wine-soaked road comedy and a cocaine-fueled drama led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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When the Academy Award nominations are announced next month, no one should be surprised if the Oscar race is led by two middle-age guys on a wine-tasting bender and Howard Hughes.
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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The Independent Spirit Awards celebrate the best in low-budget filmmaking. But within those honors, the John Cassavetes Award goes to the lowest of the low-budget films: those made for under $500,000.
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The trio will make an interesting combination on screen.
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Mixing laughs and ire in Orange County.
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The low-key comedy âBroken Englishâ is a textbook example of an Indiewood film: a Hollywood fantasy wrapped in plain brown paper.
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"Sideways," a quirky comedy about two friends on a road trip through California's wine country, was picked as 2004's best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the group announced Saturday.
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At this year's film festival, nonfiction films outshine the usual angst-ridden, quirky indies.
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The new movie "Sideways" treats the subject of wine fluently and accurately, with just the right proportions of satire and respect.
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Director Michael Bay has developed the perfect program for a film that can be made, and consumed, with no human interaction
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Anyone who has cringed while watching the home movies of newlyweds bumbling through their own corny, personalized nuptials will appreciate the comic potential of this British mock documentary
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drugs drama "Half Nelson" led the  list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit  Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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"Sideways," a comedy about two buddies  on a wine-soaked, midlife romp in California grape-growing  country, was the big winner on Monday in the New York Film  Critics Circle Awards, taking best picture and three other  honors.
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Last month, Ben Dey, an  assistant working in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency,  leaped several rungs on the Hollywood ladder by successfully  pitching an idea for a comedy to producer Brian Grazer. The  sale came about because the Imagine Entertainment executive  visits CAA once a year for a lunchtime meeting in which he  entertains assistants&#39; pitches.
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The awards keep pouring in for "Sideways," which the New York Film Critics Circle named the best picture of 2004. Part comedy, part drama, the film about middle-aged best friends who go on a wine-tasting road trip outside Santa Barbara also earned honors for two of its four stars, Paul Giamatti and Virginia Madsen, and for its screenplay, which director Alexander Payne co-wrote with Jim Taylor.