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Tues Top Ten: The Year in Dance Scenes
Michael C. here. Over at Serious Film I've been handing out awards for 2012, but when I tried to name the dance scene of the year I realized 2012 was too packed with great contenders to choose only a...
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10 Things I Link About You
Deal Central Anne Hathaway will star in a modernized version of Taming of the Shrew. Good luck besting braying fab Elizabeth Taylor, Anne. Movie|Line Michael Haneke is actually aware of that lolz...
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Only the Actors Like It?
On Oscar nomination morning one of the biggest surprises for me was that The Master won 3 nominations in acting and none elsewhere. That after a disappointing showing with the Screen Actors Guild which...
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Only 261 Days Until "GRAVITY" Drops
Solaris (2002)Remember that blissful time a year ago when we thought we would have Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity in theaters for 2012. It was not to be but the film finally has a release date in October...
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Stage Door: "Picnic" Packs a Lot of Starpower
Occasionally on Mondays, Broadway's "dark" night, or uh... It's Wednesday (oops!)... we'll talk theater. As I sat waiting for the revival of William Inge's "Picnic" to begin in its new Broadway run, I...
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The Flu
Apologies for my absence. Under the weather for the 17th time this year. I think the evil Flu realized that I kept claiming that my calendar year didn't end until Oscar Night and also overheard my...
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The First Still from Snowpiercer
Amir here. When I was compiling my list of 2013’s most anticipated films a couple of weeks ago, one of the titles that slipped under my radar was Snowpiercer. With the first official still from the...
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It's an open thread whilst I work on that top ten list, the new podcast, and more. P.S. Our celebration of The Hours for its 10th anniversary begins tomorrow!
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Link-o-logy
Indiewire Robert Redford on whether or not he'd start the Sundance Film Festival again todayGold Derby on Leo DiCaprio's slightly odd Oscar history Los Angeles Times Kathryn Bigelow pens an editorial...
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Breakfast With... Clarissa, Virginia, and Laura
We begin our 10th anniversary celebration of The Hours, in the only logical place: morning rituals Good morning ladies: Laura would like to sleep in, Virginia never sleeps, Clarissa sleeps fitfully A...
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Best Director. My Choices and Theirs.
This is one of those awards seasons in which I curse my time management skills. I prefer to post my annual Film Bitch Awards in the traditional Oscar categories before the nominations to avoid undue...
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Best of the Year: Nathaniel's Top Ten
Previously: The Honorable Mentions Often during the calendar-straddling list-making frenzy of "top ten season" a scene or a line of dialogue or even a whole film will refuse to dislodge itself from any...
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Re: Ben Affleck
I would like to go on record... as saying that this hideous idea of a "write-in" vote for Ben Affleck which is making the webrounds should not be humored by any Academy member or Oscar pundit who...
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"The Hours" Discussion Pt. 1: Nervous Hands, Ravenous Kisses
[Editor's Note: for the centerpiece of our 10th anniversary celebration of The Hours, I asked Joe Reid and Nick Davis if they'd like to talk about the movie and it turned out they already had. A...
View ArticleSundance Chaos Begins: Crystal Fairy, Two Mothers, Etc...
It'll be tough this year to follow the happenings from afar at Sundance without accidentally reading anything about Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, which reunites Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine...
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"The Hours" Discussion Pt. 2: Score, Performance, Re-Casting
previously... Joe Reid and Nick Davis discussed fidgety hand acting and ravenous kisses in The Hours for it's 10th anniversary. We rejoin them for the second half of their conversation. - Nathaniel R...
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Raven Haired "Mama"
Jose here. By the time this weekend's over, Jessica Chastain will have finished taking over the world her latest movies in the first and second spots of the box office (help me out here, has this...
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"Get out of heeeeeerre"
A week later and I'm still giggling about this. And also SO FRUSTRATED THAT SAG IS NEXT SUNDAY INSTEAD OF TODAY. Award Shows. I get The DTs. Don't judge. This calls for a poll! poll by twiigs.com
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Box Office Playbook: Jessica vs. Jennifer
As if doing battle like Best Actress Gladiators both Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence are all over the nation's theaters. They'll be horns locked for the next 5 weeks in the media, I'll bet. JLaw...
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