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Kevin Lally

Bringing art films to the island of Aruba

This Screener correspondent is now back in sweltering New York City after six days at the tropical but windswept Aruba International Film Festival. On my last day in Aruba, I spoke to AIFF director Claudio Masenza, a screenwriter, journalist and former programmer for the Venice Film Festival,...

Aruba Fest spotlights movies about movies

Claudio Masenza, the director of the Aruba International Film Festival, is not only a journalist and consultant to the Venice and Rome Film Festivals, he’s also the writer-director of several documentaries on Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Alfred Hitchcock. Which may...

At the Aruba Fest: Ray Liotta on acting and the making of 'GoodFellas'

“I’ve never been in a fight,” Ray Liotta confessed at an often hilariously blunt public Q&A session (and earlier press conference) at the Aruba International Film Festival yesterday, demystifying his movie tough-guy image. “The guys I knew in high school just laugh their balls off.”...

Island pride: Aruba Film Festival cheers local Caribbean heroes

This week, Screener has the good fortune to be blogging from the third annual Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF), where the sun is baking but the breezes from the sparkling ocean are constant. AIFF was founded in 2010 by producers Jonathan Vieira and Giuseppe Cioccarelli, and it’s already...

Film Review: Cars 2

Globe-spanning sequel to Pixar’s 2006 automative adventure is a visual treat, but has less to offer mature viewers than the studio’s recent top-of-the-line models.

Loud and clear: Technology marches on at CinemaCon 2011

As digital projection and 3D continue to gather powerful momentum across the globe, one could easily be forgiven for asking the naïve question: Where do we go from here? At NATO’s first CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, technology mavens were more than eager to provide a glimpse at what lies...

From the archives: Versatility gives Lumet staying power

Veteran New York-based director Sidney Lumet died on Saturday at the age of 86. A four-time Academy nominee for Best Director, Lumet finally received an honorary Oscar in 2005, two years before the release of his acclaimed final film, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. Film Journal International...
Flying high: Pixar veteran Pete Docter is 'Up' for 3D adventure

Flying high: Pixar veteran Pete Docter is 'Up' for 3D adventure

Up is the tenth feature from the brain trust at Pixar, and director Pete Docter has been there as a key contributor for the entire remarkable run of instant animated classics. A 19-year veteran of the Emeryville, Calif.-based studio, Docter was supervising animator and an Oscar-nominated co...

RELIGULOUS

Any regular viewer of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” knows that one of the provocative comedian’s hot-button issues is religion—he’s an agnostic, and not afraid to offend the sensibilities of believers of all denominations. In Maher’s view, religion is brainwashing, a mindless acceptance of...

THE DUCHESS

The troubled, headline-making marriage of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana had nothing on the tumultuous relationship of Diana’s 18th-century ancestor, Georgiana Spencer, and her husband, William Cavendish, the fifth Duke of Devonshire. In The Duchess, we can see some of the genetic...