A friend of Footcandle has decided to do some Spring Cleaning, and as a result, sell his collection of movie posters.  For the reasonable price of $2 you can be the proud owner of a theaterical poster of over a hundred different titles.  “American Gangster”, “Doubt”, “The Kite Runner”, “Aviator”, “The Inside Man”, “Cape Fear”, [...]

The Occupational Therapy Program of Lenoir-Rhyne University will present a convocation about how society views persons with disabilities at 7 p.m. March 30 in the Belk Centrum. “Freaks,” a 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers directed and produced by Tod Browning will be shown. Browning took the unusual step of casting the film with [...]

Tri-Rahn Pictures will be filming the largest scene of the faith-based full Feature Film “Pendulum Swings” this Saturday, Feb. 27th and is looking for people of all ages to be part of the film. Families, friends and everyone are encouraged toattend as 2 scenes planned for filming will be different church service days. Director/Producer Bill Rahn is asking participants to wear their [...]

The Carolina Theater in the spirit of holidays has told us that any Footcandle member who shows their ID can get in free to a screening of Amelia between now and the end of the year.

One day I will make it to a film festival.  But until then I’ll have to rely on the reporting of those lucky souls who get to go…or at least talk to those who go.  IndieWIRE has posted a report card of sorts for a slew of films premiering at Toronto – ranging from Werner [...]

Jeff Bridges who played the Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski in the Coen brothers hit “The Big Lebowski” is in talks to possibly play in Joel & Ethan’s remake of “True Grit”.  I’m not a big western fan so I’ve never seen the original but the re-teaming of this group has my interest.  Bridges’ upcoming films [...]

Fresh off his success with Slumdog Millionaire it appears Danny Boyle might decide to film a sequel to his underground smash hit Trainspotting.  It would be interesting to see if Ewan McGregor would return for the film.  For more on this project click here.

Lenoir-Rhyne University just announced it will  be screening the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” on September 29th at 6:30pm in the Belk Centrum.  For more details click here.

The 2009 Manhattan Short will be held in over 150 cities across the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia between the 20th and 27th of September 2009.
Mission: The Manhattan Shorts mission is to unite audiences from all seven continents of the globe for one week via the twelve most compelling short films submitted [...]

Director Ang Lee has quite the filmography.  From Brokeback Mountain to The Hulk he’s not afraid to make whatever film strikes his fancy.  This time out he chose to make a lighthearted look at the Woodstock rock festival.  Recently I came across this article and thought it worth posting a link to.  Enjoy!