“I always kind of knew I was going to make a film about Carl Sandburg — that’s the truth,” documentarian Paul Bonesteel tells Xpress about his latest project, The Day Carl Sandburg Died. “There’s a huge amount of satisfaction with this, partly because it’s been hanging over me for 25 years. And I don’t mean […]
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From Hell
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Bill Cunningham New York
The Hangover Part II
Bloodworth
Decisions
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Invaders From Mars
Jumping the Broom
The 5th Quarter
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
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The underdog poet
African Cats
Water for Elephants
Rio
ActionFest 2011 recap and podcast
While the official end to ActionFest came Sunday night, after the film festival’s closing night screening of Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins at The Carolina Asheville, it unofficially wound down Monday night behind the building of West Asheville’s Blue Barnhouse studio. There, a handful of people caught a screening of Evan Glodell’s pre-Apocalyptic love story Bellflower, projected on a bed sheet pegged to a couple of drainage pipes. Not far away was not only the film’s director, but also the star of the film, a matte black, fire-breathing muscle car named Mother Medusa. As a whole, this was not only the perfect finale for ActionFest 2011, but a pin-point summation of it, too, with its mix of the community driven and the unorthodox.
Your Highness
Soul Surfer
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The Big Bang: ActionFest Returns
Those deafening thunderbursts of explosions, staccato blasts of gunfights, whining squeals of car chases and the general cacophony of bloodlust coming from South Asheville are nothing to fret over—it’s just ActionFest 2011.
Legend of the fall
ActionFest Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Buddy Joe Hooker talks to Xpress about stunts, film, and what it’s like to jump off a cliff.