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Take Three: Amanda Plummer
Craig back with a new Take Three. Today: Amanda Plummer Amanda Plummer photograph from Jeannick Gravelines PhotographeTake One: No film without herThere are certain characters who, when they appear on...
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Flashback: Olivia & Travolta
Happy 62nd birthday to Olivia Newton-John. Rather than celebrate with the usual Xanadu (1980) fixation or the more universally beloved Grease (1978) how about a duet with John Travolta from their flop...
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NYFF: "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"
*slight spoilers ahead but this is not a "plot" film.*Uncle Boonmee can recall his past lives. My memory is hardly as uncanny. Recalling or describing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the...
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How I Feel / How I Wish I Felt
As articulated by Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. (Ugh, I'm seriously sick today. Someone read to me from happier-days diaries before I croak.)*
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Gloria Stuart (1910-2010)
She was born on the 4th of July, 1910 in Santa Monica and a little over a century later she left this mortal coil right next door in West Los Angeles. But oh how this American blonde travelled in...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "True Grit"
The teaser for our Christmas present from The Coen Bros has arrived. It's our first good look at the second film version of the novel True Grit. Now why can't trailers for musicals admit their genre as...
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Disastrous Javier and Disaster Epic Compete For Foreign-Language Oscar
Fifty countries have now announced their Oscar submissions. We usually end with sixty-plus competitors so there's a dozen movies (approximately) left unannounced. The big question marks are Spain...
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Curio: Steve Dressler's Film Poster Prints
Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here, bringing you more from the intersection of print design and film. Steve Dressler is a favorite artist of mine, maybe because you can tell from his art that he is a...
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Uruguay Must Choose: "Leo's Room" or "The Useful Life"?
Keeping up with the foreign film Oscar submission announcements is a sisyphean task. Uruguay hasn't announced yet but I'm hearing from an inside source that three different groups of voters weigh in...
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Sally Menke (RIP). Tarantino Films Will Never Be The Same Again.
Terrible news to report. This morning Sally Menke's body was discovered in Beachwood Canyon. She was 56 years old. It may have been California's extreme heat on Monday when she went missing but details...
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Top Ten: NC-17 Box Office Champs
Robert here. Did you know that yesterday was the twenty year anniversary of the NC-17 rating? That tag, applied to the most controversial of films, has developed the most controversial reputation...
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"Angels in America" Celebrates 20 Years
I mentioned very briefly this summer that I was working on a piece about Angels in America for a magazine. (That's why we covered HBO's Angels in the 'Best Shot' series -- multi-tasking!) The magazine...
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Actors on Actors: "The Susan Hayward of it All"
Actors on Actors looks at screen moments when stars are name-checked... by other stars! It's very meta. Since we're multi-tasking today trying to catch up, it's also a Tuesday Top Ten! In this episode,...
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"Hit Me" Schedule and Other Programming Notes
Just a heads up that tonight's episode of Hit Me With Your Best Shot starring Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) must be delayed. It's a long film, I've been totally ill for two days and I want...
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The Links Are Alive...
In Contention Tapley's review of Conviction.New York Magazine Mark Harris great piece on The Social Network in case you haven't read it yet. "I poked Aaron Sorkin..." Cinema Styles "Coming Home to...
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Donna Murphy is "Mother Gothel"
If you don't just skip the occasional theater post on The Film Experience you may know of my love of Tony winner Donna Murphy. She has what might be her most significant screen role ever this very...
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First and Last, Gymnasium
first and last image from motion pictures, excluding the credit sequences.Can you guess the movie?*
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Unsung Heroes - The Students of "Election"
This is Michael C. from Serious Film back again to shine a light on a cinematic achievement that has been hidden for too long in the shadows. This week it is a film I've been an evangelist for since...
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Modern Maestros: David Fincher
Robert here, continuing my series on important contemporary directors. As Nathaniel has mentioned, the series is coming to an end. This will be the third-to-last entry. Enjoy! Maestro: David...
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