Band of Thebes

Animated My Dog Tulip Opens in US with Two Week Run in NYC

Today, the animated version of J.R. Ackerley's classic book My Dog Tulip finally opens in the US, fifteen months after it premiered in Annecy, France. Voiced by Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini, the movie doesn't degay its lonely aging hero whose life is rejuvenated when he adopts an ill-behaved German Shepherd. A charmed NYT critic calls it "one of the most sophisticated dog movies ever created." In October the film moves to Philadelphia, Boston, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

James Dean All Gayed Up in Biopic "Joshua Tree, 1951"

The forthcoming movie (as yet unscheduled) was written and directed by Matthew Mishory, a 28 year-old Santa Monica native who made last year's twelve-minute short, Delphinium: A Portrait of Derek Jarman. Playing James Dean is 22 year-old James Preston from a tv's The Gates.