Deb Wallwork and Mike Hazard’s C. Beck, featured in the 2007 edition of MNTV, took the grand prize from Independent Lens‘ online shorts fest. Indiewire reports. If you missed the airing of MNTV, the films can still be viewed online. Past Regis Dialogue guests Ang Lee and James Schamus talk to Entertainment Weekly about Heath Ledger, the new Hulk movie, and their upcoming project. Thanks to Matt Dentler’s…

Anthony Minghella, Oscar winning Writer and Director of The English Patient, died at 5am this morning after a brain hemmorhage. Variety reports. Cinematical reviews Older Than America from SXSW, hot off the opening night of Women With Vision.

In her recent rave reviewof Paranoid Park, the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis invokes Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Dargis’ connection is no accident, as Van Sant himself credits Tarr’s work in helping shape his own vision in making his last four films: Gerry, Elephant, Last Days, and Paranoid Park(screening this Wednesday at the Walker). Last November the Walker was lucky enough to host a Regis…

Women With Vision opens this evening with what will be a packed, sold out screening of Older Than America. If you missed your chance to get tickets, don’t worry, I know the filmmakers are planning to bring the film back to the Twin Cities for more screenings. Saturday brings three exciting programs: The first of two Women With VisionShort Film Programs, the WIFTI Short Film Showcase, and the local…

The question that has been echoed for the past few years at Cannes may very well have a refrain here in the Twin Cities, albeit a quieter refrain. A recent article in the New York Times Magazine (“New Wave on the Black Sea“, A.O. Scott) brings to light two films that made brief appearances in the past, but also three films coming up at the Walker starting next week. The New Romanian Cinema section of…