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Okay, say what you will about Kristen Stewart and "Snow White," but that film actually gets better with second viewing (I re-watched the film over the weekend, and I liked it better the second time!).

If you could distill essence de chat into a few well-chosen pen strokes, you’d end up with something like Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol’s superb animated adventure A Cat in Paris

One of the most popular sessions among filmmakers attending the NAB Show featured Supervising Sound Editor Lon Bender and Sound Designer Bill Dean from the smash hit "The Hunger Games" on a panel moderated by Associate Features Editor David Cohen from Variety.

When most people think of 3D, they imagine the grand spectacles behind major box office smashes. Once you can strip down the major studio budget and the gimmicky nature of 3D, the experience can change completely – as seen with "Trains of Shadows".

It was a proud President of the FIFE International Environmental Film Festival of Paris, who stepped on to the stage of the Conseil de Paris, near the Pagode Cinema Babylone to announce the closing night ceremony of the 37th event.

Hamlet: "To be or not to be… that is the question." Well, Hammy my boy, here we are! Living in LA now for nearly 2 years and this will be my first entry to finalize the concepts I was perusing through in 7 Notes when I first started this blog back in December of 2008 and since then, plenty of amazing experiences have befallen me as well as many I fell right into.

Something like five years ago I optioned a feature script from writer James Hancock that I really liked, it took the teen slasher format and gave it a more European feel mixing up a bunch of horror essentials without cheese and with a psychological edge that just completely entertained. James and I spent quite a while developing it further, tried to get it funded, unsurprisingly failed with just a couple of tiny low budget shorts to our name and decided to come back to it a bit later in our careers.

In an extraordinary series of videos made for the Museum of the Moving Image, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz discusses the filmmakers, authors and even comic books that have shaped the films of Wes Anderson. This is surely one of the most imitated filmmakers of the 21-st Century, so it's fascinating to see where he gets his inspiration from.

We've all heard our female friends and family members say that famous saying: "A good man is hard to find!" Well how about this take on that saying: "A good Spanish movie is hard to find!!!" Well my dear Cinebloggers, I got news for you: In the process of finding A Good Movie, we found A Good Man (Un Buen Hombre)!

Why did I want to become a filmmaker in the first place? These days I can barely remember, and that makes me kind of sad. When I graduated from film school, I had a director's demo reel ready to go and all the confidence in the world that it was good enough to get me that first directing gig. I must have sent my reel to almost 200 companies, but all anyone ever needed was a PA for a day or two. Money started getting tight and before I knew it, my focus turned from creating to surviving. Fast forward seven years and a bunch of reality TV sets later and here I sit asking myself what happened to all my so-called dreams. Or, more to the point, what happened to my dreams coming true?