Sin Nombre News

For his list of the best docs to release on DVD in 2009, Jeff Dick, LJ 's indie film guru, took into account the following criteria: films that garnered Oscar, film festival, or critical recognition, including in LJ , and those offering remarkable insights and/or emotional engagement that lingers beyond their final frames.

Familiarity reigned in theatres in 2009, as studios once again busied themselves finding "known properties" to lure in audiences.

Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are in negotiations to star in " Sin nombre " helmer Cary Fukunaga's feature adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel "Jane Eyre." Project is a period piece but will play up the gothic elements of the story about Jane , a demure governess who discovers her surly employer Rochester is harboring a dark ...

Opening this week on the local film society circuit: Writer-director Tony Stone, playing a Viking named Orn, returns to the Vermont woods where he played as a boy to co-star in his feature debut, "Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America." Shot in New England, this mystifying story follows Orn and Volnard after the luckless Vikings are stranded ...

The charmed life of Oprah Winfrey fave "Precious" is continuing: The film, propelled from indie curiosity to mainstream box-office draw by Winfrey's praise, has been nominated for Best Picture at the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Success of the Twilight saga books and films inspire new productions of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre In the footsteps of Heathcliff and Cathy a Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight Saga: New Moon The BrontA s are back in fashion a ' with a bit of help from Bella Swan.

"500 Days of Summer," "Amreeka," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "Sin Nombre" and "The Last Station" took the Spirit Award nominations for best feature.

Oh, this is some good stuff. I was a little surprised recently when the announcement came down that Cary Fukunaga , who directed the very excellent Sin Nombre , would adapt Charlotte Bronte 's classic novel Jane Eyre as his next film.

Time: 2009 Nov 30 19:30 - 21:10 Summary: Mexico/USA. 2008. 96 minutes. Language: In Spanish with English subtitles.

It's been a while since there's been an Asian North American box-office hit. The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet , and Snow Falling on Cedars were all from the '90s. Indie successes like Better Luck Tomorrow and Eve and the Fire Horse have been few and far between over the past decade.

Indie distributor Revolver Entertainment has snapped U.K. rights to Heitor Dhalia's "Adrift" and Jim Jarmursh's "The Limits of Control" in double whammy deal with Focus Features.

The Spot: A neon sign that says "America" is half-submerged in floodwater. A scratchy voice recording plays in the backgrounda 'a man reciting a poem.

This is all over the news, though it seems it was Variety which first reported it: "Sin nombre" helmer Cary Fukunaga is in advanced negotiations to direct a feature adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" for Brit shingle Ruby Films.

This is a bit unexpected; there have been a lot of possible next projects in the works for Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga .

District 9 Movie aliens through the years have come in all shapes and sizes. There have been the good , the bad and now the ugly.

Running from angry gangsters is hard work, and opportunities to sit and think are few and far between.

Trying to pick which movie to go see can be painstaking if you simply cannot make up your mind.

"The Messenger" by first-time director Oren Moverman picked up top honors at the Deauville American Film Festival Sunday night, taking the fest's grand prize and international critics' award.

The Jake Erhardt International Film Series will show the Mexican film Sin Nombre Tuesday, Sept.

A perilous race for the border. A lot of movies have been made about the American side of the drug trade.