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It’s been a fairly explosive couple of weeks. With history being made (and ending) every day, from the ongoing tumult in Iran to the startling death of Michael Jackson, the headlines (and indeed our collective psyche) seem very crowded indeed...
The new Jaman App for iPhone has us all pretty excited here at Jaman Central. Download the app to your iPhone and you can enjoy a different free movie every week, starting every Friday. Right now we’re pleased to showcase the propulsive and exciting hip hop dance documentary Planet B-Boy...
The most compelling hero Hollywood’s given us so far this summer isn’t a hirsute superhero with adamantinum claws, or a headstrong starship captain (now revised with George Bush’s entitlement and daddy issues), or even the future leader of Earth’s resistance...
We’re always happy to hear word of a new film from any of our Top Ten Directors, but it had been a while since the fiery and provocative Lars von Trier has had a film to offer...
Last night I was lucky enough to catch an advance screening of Tetro, the latest film by Francis Ford Coppola, in San Francisco’s East Bay...
Viewing Peter Greenaway’s marvelous, mind-expanding essay film Rembrandt’s J’accuse at the SF International Film Fest last night was like skimming the wildest art history text. The film lays out many (31, to be precise) mysteries surrounding Rembrandt’s famous painting The Night Watch...
With the Tribeca Film Festival set to begin in less than two weeks and (closer to Jaman HQ) the San Francisco International Film Festival kicking off at about the same time (not to mention Cannes right around the corner), it feels like film festival season’s about to begin...
After getting the band back together on a mission to dethrone the President, what does one do for an encore...
A leader of downtown New York’s new music scene, and one of my favorite composers for the last twenty years, musician John Zorn is well-known for combining disparate musical influences, often in the course of a single song...
Some cineastes fixate on certain filmmakers and start, for lack of a better word, “collecting” them – seeking out videos, attending screenings, keeping a mental list of the filmmaker’s work and checking off each film on it after seeing it...
Hare Rama Hare Krishna (available here on Jaman to our users in all countries) is one of the great Bollywood classics...
Weeks ago in this very blog, my east coast cohort Eric Kohn offered a discouraging report on the first fifteen minutes of Watchmen, a film spun from the groundbreaking comic by writer Alan Moore and artists Dave Gibbons and John Higgins. As you may be aware, the film opens in wide release today...
I thought long and hard about how to spin this story without sounding like a complete Debbie Downer- but then I thought, be my normal charming and overly sarcastic self and it will work just fine...
I pretty much dropped everything this morning when I read that it looked like (FINALLY!) Orson Welles‘ long-incomplete opus The Other Side Of The Wind is being readied for release, with a premiere planned for the Cannes Film Festival (though accounts vary as to whether it’ll be at THIS year’s...
We here at Jaman simply adore actor and producer Eliza Dushku...
We mentioned previously that non-Hollywood films dominated the Oscars this year. It’s perhaps fitting, then, that the Best Foreign Film Oscar should go to a film that none of the Hollywood pundits had anticipated...
The folks who were apoplectic about the sweep of last year’s acting honors by non-Americans seem to have been stunned silent by the runaway success of Slumdog Millionaire, which took eight Oscars last night including Best Picture and Best Director...
Ok. First I’ll say “First!” being the first Jaman employee to write an Oscar blog post. Its cool that they do animated films early, because it gave my kids a reason to be interested in the Oscars...
Watching Hugh Jackman and Beyonce do a tribute to movie muscials is really really weird. Did they really need to do this? And Mr. Jackman pointed to Meryl Streep and metioned Mamma Mia as an example of the movie musical coming back. Eek. That movie was a disaster...
So its over — and Slumdog Millionaire swept the awards. Overall, there were no surprises in terms of the awards, but the show was certainly different than in years past. First, no comedian hosted. Instead, Hugh Jackman, Wolverine...
The Oscars ceremony was simply amazing this year...
Former spy Liam Neeson, mall cop Paul Blart, and shopaholic Isla Fisher all fell before the mighty machete of slasher movie icon Jason Voorhees last weekend, as the remake of Friday the 13th took in over 40 million dollars at the box office...
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Celebrate the 2009 Academy Awards on Jaman! We are giving away A Year's Worth of Movies (365 to be exact). Participate in our Oscar poll and the person with the most correct Oscar predictions with WIN. Enter here www.jaman.com/oscar09.
It is before lunchtime and I’ve seen clips of Cougar Barbie and a man hammering nails into his head. Hey! It’s almost Saturday, February 14, and I need to coax out that gooey, sentimentalist into a much sweeter world...
This is the perfect time of year to curl up on a cold and rainy (or snowy) night with a special someone and a great film...
Alight folks, this recession is making it harder for people to make decisions about this Saturday. “Where to go to dinner“, “What should I get her“, “Do you think he will be in the mood after a body scrub“- I have heard it all...
Watchmen - Trailer What can I say about the upcoming big screen adaptation of Watchmen, the first fifteen minutes of which screened at New York Comic Con this weekend? It looks like one helluva gorgeous, intense ride...
This one’s from the heart. In honor of Valentines Day, we at Jaman have selected our favorite romances from around the world. The offerings are quite diverse, from Charade to Conversations with Other Women...
‘Terminator: Salvation’ director McG at New York Comic Con. Photo by Eric Kohn. “What don’t you fucking understand?” This time, the confrontational remark didn’t come from Christian Bale...
It was clear I had made it into Comic Con territory when I made my first Stormtrooper sighting around 34th Street and 10th Avenue on a chilly Friday afternoon...
The Jaman universe was all abuzz last summer when we brought you the powerful and rockin’ documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Uncertainty and concern for the band, who continued to try and rock out amidst the dangerous cultural reaction to their band...
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