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Bill Thompson
 Born in Asheboro, N.C., Bill Thompson is a graduate of the Universiy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked as a feature writer, book review editor, film critic and columnist for The Post and Courier since 1980. A former sports writer in Virginia and in Florida, he also contributes articles on science and travel. |
Celebrating everything Lebowski
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Can you Lebowski? Are you missing a rug that pulled your whole room together? Can you roll a bowling ball with scruffy aplomb? Do you take unnatural pride in hoarding the Coen of the realm"? Then you have a shot. Find out if you've got the right stuff on June 21 at 7 p.m. when the second annual Lowcountry "Big Lebowski" Celebration pays homage to its chosen icon at Madra Rua Irish Pub in North Charleston. Read story.
Faran Tahir ... Actor a 23rd Century pioneer
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Faran Tahir, who played a most convincing villain in the recent "Iron Man," also shared his thoughts with The Post and Courier on becoming the first Federation captain of Pakistani ethnicity. This, for the new "Star Trek" film, which is already in post-production for a May 8, 2009, release. Read story.
Felder festival of short films long on terrific film making
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Fanfare for a fandango, please. Taking the (film) short path to hearts and minds is the 5th-annual Felder Film Festival, a consistently engaging celebration of short films mounted by Moving Images Group, the digital cinema division of Actor's Theatre of South Carolina. Read story.
Lighten up, Indiana Jones is escapism and we love it
Thursday, May 22, 2008
So far, reviewers have been less kind to Our Man Indy than the Soviet villains with whom he contends, circa 1957, claiming the film relies too heavily on our fondness for the first three films instead of digging into Jones' "dark" heart. Read story.
Popular Allen returns to 'Indiana Jones' franchise
Thursday, May 22, 2008
This Marion's no librarian, but a rip-roaring, booze-swiggin' match for rough-hewn adventurer Indiana Jones. And to the delight of millions, Ms. Ravenwood is back, plucky as ever. Maybe a little more seasoned to boot. Read story.
Film highlights amazing life journey of Robert Smalls
Thursday, May 15, 2008
"My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life." Robert Smalls, in 1895. It was an extraordinary turn of events. Read story.
Ang Lee to direct Woodstock comedy
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Though sophisticated western audiences are quite familiar with the work of the late Akira Kurosawa and other exemplars of Japanese filming of its Golden Age, the emergence of Chinese (Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, King Hu), Japanese (Hayao Miyazaki, Masayuki Suo) and Vietnamese (Tran Anh Hung) filmmakers over the past 15-20 years has exerted considerable influence. Read story.
Locally produced surf film an inspirational journey
Thursday, May 1, 2008
An A-Frame of a film, "Finding Pura Vida" is a locally produced documentary on surfing community's penchant for cause travel, which is to say sojourns to surfing destinations with more than just exhilaration in mind. Read story.
Film festival in Charleston hopes to inspire, entertain
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Drum roll, please. Summer Spooner had a scant 24 hours of turnaround time between completing her fourth year as managing director of the Beverly Hills Film Festival and hitting the ground running as director of the inaugural Charleston International Film Festival, which unspools May 1-4 at the Terrace Theatre. Read story.
Francis Ford Coppola now calling Buenos Aires home
Thursday, April 17, 2008
The maestro has gone gaucho. Francis Ford Coppola, 68, believes he's finally where he's supposed to be, a place where he can revel in financial and artistic control. Yes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, land of comparatively low production costs and much cultural ferment, especially the streets of this cosmopolitan capital. A city, one might add, with a large Italian community dating back to the early 20th century. Read story.
David Lynch Filmmaker goes fishing
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hook, line and sinker. The Ayatollah of the Abstruse, filmmaker David Lynch, has gone angling for metaphors in his latest tome on creative ideas, "Catching the Big Fish" (Penguin). Read story.
New DVD set will give film fans something to 'Lean' on
Thursday, April 3, 2008
It was perhaps the longest, most puzzling hiatus by a great filmmaker in cinematic history. After 1970's "Ryan's Daughter," British director David Lean said sayonara to motion pictures for the better part of 15 years, leaving devotees and film historians to ponder what landmark films he might have made during all those fallow years. Read story.
Zahn expanding roles past forgettable fare
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Don't expect Steve Zahn to be playing many romantic leads in the future — no Zahn Juan, as it were — but do expect a broader repertoire of films from a performer generally thought of as a comic actor who spends most of his time in forgettable fare. Read story.
Oscar-nominated Mortensen finds inspiration in intellect
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Viggo Mortensen, 49, is an actor of some distinction. He also is a painter, photographer, poet and jazz musician who believes that answers to life's vexing questions surface in quiet moments, surrounded by paintbrushes and a blank canvas with "a few candles burning as the day fades into the night." Read story.
Gaming gets 'King'-sized treatment in DVD doc
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Talk about chest beating. The recent announcement that video game sales in the U.S. more than doubled feature film box office receipts in 2007 sent a shockwave through the entertainment industry. The stereotype of the video games enthusiast, which is not too terribly different from that of the video games designer, may also be due for a comeuppance. Or not. Read story.
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