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"Fill The Void", "The Clown" and "After Lucia" Join the Very Crowded Foreign...
Brazil, Israel, and Mexico -- three countries that have yet to produce an Oscar Foreign Film champ despite a small handful or two of previous nominees -- have now joined the fast-growing list of...
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NYFF: "Hyde Park On Hudson" Historical Oscar Fluff
Michael C here with my first dispatch from the 50th New York Film Festival. First up is one of the Fall's two big president-starring prestige pictures. Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson is a perfect...
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I Vant To Link Your Blog
Empire Parker Posey (who has been teaching an awesome course in Emmy acceptance speeches ---teehee) joins the cast of Grace of Monaco as Nicole Kidman's frenemy lady-in-waitingMonkey See shares notes...
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Thoughts I had while watching that "STOKER" tease
As you may now Park Chang-wook of Thirst fame has trained his keen cruel eye on something a little less supernatural and subtitled for his next film Stoker. We got the first taste of it on...
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Trouble With The House at the End of Watched Curved Street
It was a photo finish this weekend with Clint Eastwood, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jake Gyllenhaal all struggling to land in first place. We won't really know who did until tomorrow. If you ask me that's a...
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Emmy Live Blog 2012: Golden, Winged, Deadly
Refresh your screen for updates 6:25 I thought about calling this Emmy Live Blog: Now With Less Pneumonia! (I think I'm on the mend) or Pneumatic Emmy Live Blog! but they both sound too contagious....
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"August: Osage County" Starts Filming Today
Just thought you'd like to know... Playwright Tracy Letts, told the Daily News he was "minimally involved" beyond adapting his own play for the screen, was at the first table read last week (they're...
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"Inconceivable!" ~ a Princess Bride Reunion for NYFF
Hot off the presses! And given our wee Carol Kane tangent recently, we'll have fun storming this castle... The director and cast of the adventure comedy classic The Princess Bride (1987), including Rob...
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NYFF: "Barbara" Cold War Slow Burn
Michael C. here with another dispatch from the New York Film Festival. This time it’s Barbara, Germany’s submission to the Foreign Language Oscar race. When you read as many movie reviews as I do you...
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Say What, Green Hamm?
Amuse us. Add dialogue or caption to this picture of Jon Hamm and Adam Scott on the set of _____ in the comments. You know you want to!
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Red Carpet Emmy Pt. 1: Mad Women, Power Couples, Pocket Smuggling
Nathaniel: Hi Joanna and Jose! Welcome back. We'll call this Part One and it will be truly perverse if there isn't a part two since there was so very much gownage last night. Joanna: So happy to be...
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Curio: Recycling Celluloid
Alexa here. The arrival of The Master, possibly the last film shot in large format film, has many lamenting the turnover of most theaters from celluloid to digital. Next year 20th Century Fox isn't...
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Red Carpet Emmy Pt. 2: Seventeen More
Presented without commentary but for yours... God, Lena Dunham, Kerry Washington, Jena Malone Ginny, Nicki, Glenn Close, Ms. Lange Aaron Paul, Damian Lewis, Reid Scott, Vincent Kartheiser, Jack Huston...
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Link Machine
New York Observer Nicole Kidman reborn. On The Paperboy and her upcoming NYFF tributeThe Genteel the great costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Vera Drake, Atonement) on her Anna Karenina workNew York...
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Will "The Butler" Do It?
For Oscar I mean? Oscar winner Forest Whitaker was recently snapped on the set of 2013 Oscar hopeful The Butler, from Precious director Lee Daniels. Given the The Weinstein Co will distribute the film...
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Team Experience: The Master
I'm out and about again (finally!) so my greedy eyeballs will be on The Master soon. I challenged Team Experience to describe the film in three words since so many critics can't even settle on what...
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Sally Kirkland is "Awakened"!
Sometimes movie publicists are telepathic. Last week I was thinking about The Hamptons and how it's weird that I've never been but I'm so eager to spend every weekend there this fall shivering from the...
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The Linking
GQ an oral history of the great sitcom Cheers/Film first looks inside Darren Aronofsky's Noah's Ark via the great cinematographer Matthew Libatique. They should've filmed this under the pseudonym...
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Oscar Horrors: Best Transformation Scene... Ever
[In the returning daily October series "Oscar Horrors" we look at those rare beasts. Film contributions in the horror genre that went on to Oscar nominations. Here's new contributor Peter Swanson...]...
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Liam Neeson Delivers Another Box Office Beatdown
Jean Grey, mysteriously having lost all of her mutant powers, relies on Liam Neeson for rescueLiam Neeson's surprising late career popularity continues. People love to see him putting the vicious beat...
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