 John Goodman wasn't born in New Orleans. But he should have been. Hollywood's go-to teddy bear since his Emmy-nominated "Roseanne" days in the late 1980's-- and a notable New Orleans resident since the mid- 1990s -- he is funny, self-effacing and every bit as approachable as you'd want your neighbor to be, actor or not. In a Big Easy that loves its celebrity residents, Goodman is on of its biggest and easiest. That's rare in an actor of Goodman's stature. After all, he is a guy with 11 Emmy nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, and two Screen Actors Guild nominations to his credit. Thursday night (Sept. 29), he'll add another honor to that collection when the New Orleans Film Society names him its 2011 Celluloid Hero. "I had never -- well, I hadn't seen much of anything by that time in my life -- but had certainly never seen anything like that" "And it wasn't just Mardi Gras. It was just something in the air or something, and not just the Boone's Farm. But anyway, whenever I could over the next years, I would get down there. And then I started coming down every year. I would take a vacation for that". At first, of course, it was all about the French Quarter, which had a way of widening the eyes of a St. Louis Kid like Goodman. But between go-cups, he started noticing things. "Initially, it was the Nevilles," he said. "And then I wanted to learn how that sound came about, and I just looked into that and started uncovering this whole new world I knew nothing about... It's just something that's not of this country, and it's just unlike anyplace else. I just grew to appreciate the totally different culture down there." Read the entire article at NOLA.com Add Comment Presented by the New Orleans Film Society (NOFS), the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival (LAICFF), and the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), the 4th Annual New Orleans International Children's Film Festival will take place this weekend- Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11 at CAC. The year's festival is jam-packed with fun for kids of all ages, including animated and live action films. All the fun kicks off Saturday morning and goes through late Sunday afternoon, with over 60 films presented in 10 separate programming blocks. The event is FREE and open to the public. Check out the full schedule at Examiner.com The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Film Society will host a weekend of documentary films at the Ogden that explore Southern culture through music, art, and architecture, while also addressing the future of the region and the United States. Saturday, July 23 @ 7pm Live at Preservation Hall: Louisiana Fairytale, a film by Danny Clinch. Sunday, July 24 @ 2pm The Big Uneasy, a film by Harry Shearer. Monday, July 25 @ 6pm God’s Architects, a film by Zach Godshall and Emilie Taylor Click here to find more information about tickets and pricing! New Orleans' profile as a film-going city 07/14/2011
 Screening of 'King Kong' in Nola Louisiana ranks third in the nation for film and television production, behind New York and California. David Simon's Treme, the HBO series about post-Katrina New Orleans, is filmed in the city, and so was this year's superhero movie Green Lantern. In 2010, 35 movies were shot there. But while the city shines in film production, it's trying to catch up in terms of film exhibition. There are only two movie theaters in the city proper: the Prytania Theatre in Uptown, the oldest operating cinema in New Orleans, and the Theatres at Canal Place, with an average of 45 seats in each of its five screening spaces. Many of the city's other cinemas were damaged during Hurricane Katrina and haven't been restored. Attempting to change the city's film-watching experience is the New Orleans Film Society, headed by executive director Jolene Pinder, AB'01, and program director Clint Bowie, AB'03, with one other full-time staff member, artistic director John Desplas. The film audience in New Orleans isn't nearly as high as in other cities, and Pinder and Bowie think one reason is that there just aren't enough places to go that offer a special viewing experience, something different from simply streaming a movie on a laptop. "Right now," Bowie says, "we don't have a reasonable space we can use to accommodate 1,000 people for an opening-night screening." Responsible for four major annual festivals, including the New Orleans Film Festival, the society shows films that might not otherwise be screened in the city at the Prytania, the recently rebuilt Chalmette Cinema in a nearby suburb, or at local arts centers. In May, for example, it screened the French film Rubber, about a tire that comes alive and kills people, and the documentary Bill Cunningham New York, about the eccentric New York City fashion photographer. For that event, the society staged a discussion with the organizers of New Orleans Fashion Week. Continue reading here New Orleans French Film Festival 07/07/2011
The New Orleans French Film Festival kicks off Friday, July 8th through Thursday, July 14th at the Prytania Theatre. The festival is jointly presented by the New Orleans Film Society, Consulat Général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans, and the Prytania Theatre, with support from NOLA Francaise. For the lineup and schedule of this year's festival continue reading on Examiner.com Laissez les bons temps rouler: 14th Annual New Orleans French Film Festival - New Orleans Indie Movie | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/indie-movie-in-new-orleans/laissez-les-bons-temps-rouler-14th-annual-new-orleans-french-film-festival?fb_comment=35016411#ixzz1RRRiUfN0 New Orleans French Film Festival 06/21/2011
The New Orleans Film Society and the Consulate General of France present the French Film Festival of New Orleans. Presented at the Prytania Theater from July 8 to July 14, 2011, it will propose an eclectic program of 9 films with 2 classics, which are premieres in Louisiana, broadcast in French with English subtitles. Prytania Theater 5339 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70115 Click here for a list of films! The New Orleans Film Society has staked out the dates for its 22nd annual New Orleans Film Festival: Oct. 14 to Oct. 20. As usual, the 2011 edition of the festival will include film screenings, panel discussions, workshops, receptions, awards presentations, opening and closing night events, "and numerous opportunities for learning, networking and celebrating the finest in cinema, with a special focus on Louisiana-produced films," the release said. Tickets and passes will go on sale in late September or early October. New Orleans Film Society members will be able to purchase advance tickets and will receive discounts on all events. Continue reading at NOLA.com For more information, visit the NOFS website. This Weeks Free NOLA Film Screening 06/07/2011
This week’s FREE NOLA Film Screening comes to us all the way from Canada. In the documentary, One Big Hapa Family, filmmaker Jeff Chiba Steams, after attending a family reunion, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married inter-racially after his grandparents' generation. One Big Hapa Family will screen Friday, June 10, at Ashé Cultural Arts Center at 7 pm, with a short Q&A with the filmmaker immediately following the screening. And prior to the feature presentation, there will also be a screening of the short film “Something Other Than Other” (directed by Andrea J. Chia and Jerry A. Henry), another work which explores discrimination, multi-race families, and racial identity (7 mins). The event is FREE and open to the public. The film screening is co-hosted by the New Orleans Film Society, the Charitable Film Network, and Press Street/Antenna. The Ashé Cultural Arts Center is located at 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. Continue reading on Examiner.com Loving Day and Free NOLA Film Screening: ‘One Big Hapa Family’ - New Orleans Indie Movie | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/indie-movie-in-new-orleans/loving-day-and-free-nola-film-screening-one-big-hapa-family?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1OczuL84o Film-O-Rama at Prytania Theatre 05/11/2011
Film-O-Rama opens at Prytania Theatre Friday. The selection of independent and foreign films was curated by the New Orleans Film Society, and 17 different films screen over the course of the week (May 13-19). Among the highlights are the critically acclaimed films Certified Copy, a romance set in Tuscany by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3-D, The People V. George Lucas, about the fans for whom Star Wars is much more than a cult film, and the festival is screening the 1958 classic starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Also screening is the oddity above, Rubber, a horror film/horror film parody about a homicidal tire. It defies description. The short trailer implies everything from tumbleweed Western to Psycho to Reno 911. It likely would become a cult film were director Quentin Dupieux not trying to comment on the devices he is using. There's an audience of film viewers within the film who both talk about the action and interact with it. They are funny at times, but they also disrupt the tension Dupieux is trying to build as the tire stalks a young woman. It's still clever and offbeat, and it's not entirely clear whether Dupieux was more interested in making a horror film or mocking one. But it's like no other film in the amazingly diverse line-up of films in the festival. More on Film-0-Rama here. | AuthorJohn Robert Powers - New Orleans' premier Performing Arts Academy ~ Acting. Modeling. Singing. Dancing...Life!  ArchivesMay 2012 CategoriesAll 
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