Deborah Kampmeier

The Female Eye Film Festival has returned to Toronto with a series of screenings across the city, including several domestic and international premieres. It began on Wednesday with Deborah Kampmeier's controversial feature Hounddog, starring Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn and... ... Full Article

A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, HOUNDDOG is the story of a spirited young girl LEWELLEN (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surrounds her. ... Full Article

Mallory Potosky | Published September 18, 2008 photo by Fred Norris Living in a shack with her unstable father, Lewellen too is experiencing repression.The King is her only refuge but soon becomes the reason for her unraveling. ... Full Article

In an ideal world, Deborah Kampmeier's excerable "Hounddog'' (aka "The Dakota Fanning Rape Movie'') would have gone straight to home video after its disastrous premiere at the '07 Sundance Film Festival, possibly after a weekend at the Quad. ... Full Article

With Oscar ballots due next Tuesday, the Best Picture race remains incredibly murky. There's absolutely no consensus. Here's my latest set of predictions in all categories at Movie City News, alongside the prognostications from all of the other Gurus of... ... Full Article

No movie arrived at the Sundance '07 fest with more controversy than Hounddog , the so-called ''Dakota Fanning Rape Movie'' in which the 12-year-old actresses stars as an Elvis-obsessed little girl growing up in the 1950s South. ... Full Article