Near Dark

"Maybe she WILL win the best director's Oscar?"

That's what film fans everywhere have been wondering since yesterday's announcement that Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days, Near Dark, Point Break) won the Directors Guild of America trophy for her job on the action/drama The Hurt Locker. She's the first woman ever to win that award, and only the 7th to ever be nominated for it.

Bigelow said she was "stunned, honored and proud" according to Variety.com in her acceptance speech at the end of the awards show on Saturday night at the Century Plaza...

The Directors Guild of America has nominated Kathryn Bigelow and her action/war movie The Hurt Locker for its top feature award. This means that Bigelow has a strong chance of being nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, and possibly being the first woman to ever win in that category. Bigelow is the seventh female to be nominated by the DGA, ever. Valerie Ferris was the most recent woman nominated, for Little Miss Sunshine along with her co-director Jonathan Dayton.

The DGA, which announced the nods Thursday, will reveal the winner Jan. 30 at its 62nd annual awards gala at the Century Plaza based on voting by its 14,000 members.

Lips of Blood: Female sexuality and desire in the modern vampire film By Brigid Cherry

The vampire in film has always been associated with elements of sexuality and morality. This association between vampirism and sexuality is related to the violation of taboos, but more importantly allows the identification of the other which is then repressed. Erotic and sexual characteristics are equated with vampirism, which for the female character - who is herself other and therefore subject to repression - means that to embrace the vampire is to embrace sexuality. For that, a forbidden act for the woman who is constrained by patriarchy to suppress her sexuality, she is punished - she is or becomes the vampire and dies, frequently staked through the heart. She is contrasted strongly and starkly with the heroine, the victim who remains coded as virginal, who is therefore pure and can be returned to normality at the climax of the film...

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced the winners of the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at a ceremony held at New York City’s Cipriani Wall Street.

In addition to the her action/war film The Hurt Locker being awarded Best Feature, a career tribute was presented to filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow's other films as director include the vampire film Near Dark, the sci-fi thriller Strange Days, and the action thriller Point Break...

The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, have announced that director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Near Dark, Strange Days) will be honored with the "Hollywood Director Award."

Kathryn Bigelow recently directed the The Hurt Locker, a film that has received great acclaim. It stars Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie in a riveting portrait of three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battling insurgents in Iraq. Bigelow's remarkable work has alternated between edgy and art-house fare (The Loveless, Near Dark, The Weight of Water) and action products (Point Break, Strange Days, K-19: The Widowmaker) throughout a highly regarded career spanning more than 25 years...

Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow's horror/western vampire action film comes to Blu-ray for the first time from Lionsgate on November 10th! Who knew Lionsgate owned it???. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), the film stars Bill Paxton and Adrian Pasdar. In a marketing strategy that could have come out of an arduous PR meeting at some boring office, the film's Blue-Ray release will coincide with that of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Country boy Caleb Colton (Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls. When he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright, The Lawnmower Man), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted...

Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow's horror/western vampire action film comes to Blu-ray for the first time from Lionsgate on November 10th! Who knew Lionsgate owned it???. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), the film stars Bill Paxton and Adrian Pasdar. In a marketing strategy that could have come out of an arduous PR meeting at some boring office, the film's Blue-Ray release will coincide with that of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Country boy Caleb Colton (Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls. When he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright, The Lawnmower Man), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted...

Actor Anthony Mackie asked his wife to FedEx his dignity back to him. The inexperienced Jordanian crew gave the actors real liquor for a fight scene (which wasn’t discovered until well into the shooting, thanks to the actors). And temperatures soared sometimes above 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Despite that, and shooting one million feet of film, director Kathryn Bigelow’s new action film The Hurt Locker, out June 26th, 2009 in theaters, is an awesome display of intensity and fireworks (read our review). Director Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days) and screenwriter writer Mark Boals talk to Pretty/Scary about working with actor Jeremy Renner on the newest action movie about the Iraq War and the men who diffuse bombs in the streets of Baghdad...