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Streep and Roberts for "August: Osage County"
The news, which isn't actual news yet so much as 'in talks' talking-points (the bulk of online movie articles), is this: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts will take the plum Oscar bait roles of the...
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September. It's a Wrap
We've arrived at the last quarter of the year. How odd. Just yesterday, I was traipsing through the snow at Sundance. In case you missed the goodies as summer changed to fall, here's a sampling of my...
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First and Last, Will They Come Back?
first and last images from motion pictures (excluding opening/closing credits)First and last lines of dialogue if you need another clue first ~ "What the hell is that all about?"last ~ "Oh, they won't...
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Tony Curtis (1925 - 2010)
He was born in 1925 when the masses were still swooning for silent icons like Rudolph Valentino. By the late 1950s he was a household name heartthrob himself if not a silent one. Still, that oft...
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Facebook Go Boom
"Dating you is like dating a stairmaster," Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) says, exasperated, in the opening sequence of THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Her personal stairmaster is Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg...
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A History of... Julie Andrews
To celebrate the 75th birthday of the great Julie Andrews, our favorite singing governness, our favorite magical nanny, our favorite gender bending toast of Paris. Something big was in order. Why,...
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Should Case 39 be open or shut? Half and half for a laugh, perhaps?
Craig here, taking a look at Renée Zellweger's new cinema release. (There are a few mild spoilers contained)Case 39 stars Zeéeeee as Emily Jenkins, a concerned social worker in a headband. She’s...
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Foreign Film Race: Ricardo Darín... Again. And More...
First comes Oscar. If you follow my charts and this race each year it's impossible to escape Argentinian movie star Ricardo Darín. Not only is he continually employed but whichever body chooses...
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First and Last, "Time on My Hands"
first and last images from motion pictures (excluding credit sequences) Can you guess the movie?*
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Links: "The 39 True Basterds Are All Right Network"
Warning: Teaser poster for True Grit bound to shame eventual actual poster with its gorgeous directness and simplicity. [Editor's Note: I've been in a very bad place/mood when it comes to movie posters...
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Take Three: Paul Schneider
Craig here with this week's Take Three.Today: Paul SchneiderTake One: Shining bright in the backgroundSchneider is the epitome of faded rakishness as Charles Armitage Brown, the somewhat disarmingly...
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IMDb Top 20 Actress List. A Few Late Notes.
Have any of you read this IMDb list which purports to evaluate the "overall importance and impact" of film actresses across the span of the past two decades. That'd be 1990-2009 (though obviously...
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"Thelma, don't you litter."
.JA from MNPP here. At this point in Thelma & Louise, our girls have just robbed a convenience store (not to mention that whole shooting a rapist thing slightly earlier). In fact that tiny bottle...
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"Mary, did you see The Omen?"
I'm multi-tasking! It's a new episode of actors on actors, tv @ the movies and a monologue.Recently after an accidental couch potato binge on The Golden Girls -- you all know what that's like, right?...
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What Were We Talking About?
When Sam Mendes and Maggie Gyllenhaal had lunch recently in NYC, what do you suppose they were talking about? I hope Maggie was saying "sorry about being such a one-dimensional cartoon in Away We Go --...
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Big is Good.
Jose here.Money may not sleep but apparently our creativity does. Watching Wall Street the other day I couldn't help but ask myself how is it that technology took a turn on us at some point and now...
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NYFF: A Summary
The 48th New York Film Festival screenings begin with a promo reel in which a graphic animated map of the world is formed. Famous director names are paired with their countries of origin in rapid...
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Curio: Yul Brynner's Photographic Journey
Alexa here. Yul Brynner has always been a favorite of mine, maybe because The King and I was the first musical I ever saw. Or maybe because my old Ukrainian great-grandmother swore he was the spitting...
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Part 1: Jake Gyllenhaal at "The New Yorker Festival"
I'll share a few more interesting movie-specific quotes I couldn't find room for in this article tomorrow here at the blog. But for now a piece I wrote for Tribeca Film.He’d be unrecognizable but for...
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