FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WAITING FOR DUBLIN
 
“WAITING FOR DUBLIN is like a time capsule, a film that, in every detail, could have been made in the 1940s and starred Bing Crosby and Maureen O’Hara.”
-                      Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com

 
 
HEARTTHROB ANDREW KEEGAN STARS AS WWII FLYBOY IN ROMANTIC COMEDY
COMING TO BLU-RAY MARCH 1, 2011
 
LOS ANGELES , CA (February 22, 2011) –  “WAITING FOR DUBLIN,” a screwball comedy starring Andrew Keegan with Irish stars Hugh O’Conor, Frank Kelley and David Wilmot with the debut of the luminous Jade Yourell, will jig its way to DVD on …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 CANNES MAN
A Classic Spoof About the Hollywood Star-Making Machine
Featuring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich, and more!

 “A small treasure!”
- The New York Times

“Hilarious!”- The Hollywood Reporter
 
   

Available on Blu-ray and DVD March 1, 2011
LOS ANGELES (February 22, 2011) – Originally released on VHS in 1997, Cannes Man is looking better than ever in glorious Blu-ray.  This insiders’ fable of the Cannes Film Festival, stars the well-known character actor Seymour Cassel (Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums) playing impresario “Sy Lerner” and Francesco Quinn (Platoon, Placebo Effect) as “Frank …

Have you ever wanted to know what the oil companies and the car industry won’t tell you?
Filmmakers Jeremy Wagner and Scott D. Roberts  have created “GasHole” is a new documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels.  The film, narrated by Peter Gallagher, features interviews with a wide range of viewpoints from US Department of Energy Officials, Congressional leaders both Democrat and Republican, Alternative Fuel Producers, Alternative Fuel Consumers (such as actor Joshua Jackson), Professors of Economics and Psychology and more…

What caused America to …

Friday, February 18, 2011

Reverend’s Reviews: Sex on Screen, Now & Then

The depiction of sex on screen has been a source of controversy, titillation and even academic study since the early years of the film industry. While some moviegoers complain about increasingly graphic sex scenes, others defend them as important expressions of artistic freedom, albeit for adults only.
A great retrospective of films made in the last 30 years that are renown for their frank take on human sexuality — heterosexual, homosexual, and everything in between — will take place at the …

Film Reviews

Posted: Thu., Feb. 17, 2011, 5:12pm PT

Now and Later
By Ronnie Scheib

A Cinema Libre release of a Cinema Libre Studio presentation of an Imago-Creata production. Produced by Beth Portello, Philippe Diaz. Directed, written, edited by Philippe Diaz.

With: Shari Solanis, James Wortham, Marcellina Walker, Luis Fernandez-Gil, Adrian Quinonez.
An international banker on the lam receives shelter, uninhibited sex and lectures about American imperialism from a curvaceous Nicaraguan nurse in “Now and Later,” an oddball hybrid of porn film and message movie.
 
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Movie Review

Now & Later (2007)

Denise Brassard/Cinema Libre Studio
James Wortham in “Now & Later.”
‘Now & Later’ Explores Sex and Politics
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: February 17, 2011

Essentially a two-person play liberally sprinkled with gleaming, groovy, graphic sex, “Now & Later” exudes an amiably accessible vibe that softens the edges of its freewheeling explicitness.

Lest we enjoy all this flesh without an ennobling context, the movie kicks off with Wilhelm Reich’s assertion of the link between sexual repression and violence. Thus cautioned, we can now guiltlessly appreciate the many and varied couplings of Angela (Shari …

Thursday, February 17, 2011
Now & Later
Film Review by Kam Williams
Headline: Politics Make Strange Bedfellows in Sexplicit Agitprop Adventure
Bill (James Wortham) was making a decent enough salary crippling Third World economies as an international banker to be able to afford a great house in L.A. But when greed got the better of him, he ended up accused of embezzlement.
He subsequently became so despondent and suicidal about the prospect of spending eight years behind bars that, rather than face the music, he decided to jump bail without even telling his wife (Marcellina …

UNRATED: A WEEK OF SEX IN CINEMA (NY)

 Posted by Gerald Wright on February 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM
 

Opening February 18 -24, 2011 at NY’s Quad Cinema
In retrospective “Unrated: A Week Of Sex in the Cinema, Philippe Diaz and distributor Cinema Libre Studio have curated a retrospective of six notable films that explore the edgier side of relationships.  Designed to foster a broader dialogue with filmgoers, the showcase allows New York audiences the chance to revisit six popular and controversial films that push buttons and boundaries for their frank and explicit …

~ CELEBRATING SEX IN CINEMA ~

COMING TO LA
(Click here for details on NYC)

In conjunction with the Los Angeles premiere of award-winning filmmaker Philippe Diaz’s NOW & LATER, we’ve organized a week of films and special guest appearances to help spark a conversation about sex – or the lack thereof – in cinema.
Screenings start Friday, 2/25 at LAEMMLE’S SUNSET 5 (8000 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046)
- Cinema Libre Studio

“Uninhibited sexuality taken …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOW & LATER
Premieres February 18 at NY’s QUAD CINEMA
February 25 at LA’s Laemmle’s Sunset 5
Accompanied by the retrospective
UNRATED: A WEEK of SEX IN CINEMA*
When Now is All You’ve Got
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February 1, 2011, Los Angeles – NOW & LATER (99 minutes) written and directed by award-winning filmmaker and producer, Philippe Diaz (THE END OF POVERTY?; THE EMPIRE IN AFRICA; RUE DU DEPART; MAUVAIS SANG) will have its American premiere at NY’s QUAD Cinema on February 18, and at the Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in Los Angeles on February 25.  …