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Kidman in Cannes. Part 1.
Jose here. The Cannes Film Festival starts today and I think we all can agree that the most important thing about it this year is the fact that Nicole Kidman is on the jury. Right? This year's...
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Reader Spotlight: Peter Chan
We're getting to know the Film Experience community one-by-one. It's taking a long time, bless you! Today we're talking with Peter, a script supervisor. Peter working on the set of a movie! Nathaniel:...
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The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical...
Last night I posted the Best Shot group roundup of The Talented Mr Ripley, but not my own choice. Why? Well every time I began I wanted to start over. If this blogpost were a passport I would have been...
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Buy a Flower Off a Poor Girl
Another edition of May Flowers is blooming... abstew here with a look at a film that's so enamored with flowers that beautiful blossoms show up on screen even before the title of the film: But, the...
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LinkoManiac
Flicks and Bits cool fan-made posters for X-Men Days of Future Past Playbill is Jewel up for the part of Cinderella in Into the Woods? I am always rooting for thirtysomething and forthy something...
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Why Greta Gerwig (hopefully) Won't Be the Next Big Thing
Tim here, hoping that we're all okay with talking about Greta Gerwig a little bit more. The 29-year-old actress and her career has been discussed to the point of distraction throughout the internet...
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Smash: "The Phenomenon" & "The Transfer"
Dancin’ Dan here, wishing I could say that I was coming here not to bury Smash, but to praise it. Truly. I have been a huge Smash apologist ever since that (amazingly, awesomely) ridiculous Bollywood...
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Which is yummier?
I wanted to share an epiphany I had in the momentary Kidman drought yesterday at Cannes. I finally realized why Kidman's Dior had me drooling, why it had such a physical effect on me. It reminds me of...
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Ruth Wilcox’s May Flowers
They’re arriving so late in the day because Mrs. Wilcox is a nymph who travels at night. As far as evocative film openings go this lush green opening for Howards End ranks among the top for me. Really,...
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Kidman in Cannes. Part 2.
Jose here. After abandoning us for what felt like years OK it was just one day Cannes jury member extraordinaire Nicole Kidman is back to show us how it's done! Who She Wore: Calvin Klein (it was a...
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I Left My Film Festival in San Francisco
Glenn here with a report from the recently concluded 56th San Francisco Film Festival. I travelled to the Golden Gate city and sat on the FIPRESCI jury, judging a roster of eleven films from first and...
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Early Bird Oscar Predix: The Costume Designers
Whether or not you think Catherine Martin has already won this year's Costume Design Oscar - paging pink-suited Jay Gatsby! -- the upcoming battle for Oscar nominations is hardly an easy read even if...
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Ask Soggy Nathaniel...
I am so wet and bedraggled right now - I need Audrey Hepburn to come rescue me from New York's mean streets. Just got done walking 6 miles in the rain for AIDSWALK here in NYC to raise money for...
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Do you plan to read any of the books this season's movies are based on?
I'll answer the question first. I might, though I probably shouldn't say that I might. For each year I make an internal plan to read all of the books on which upcoming films are based. Guess how many I...
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Red Carpet Convo: The Great Cannesby
Because we aren't in Cannes, we're gazing at the gowns and only dreaming of the films -- I personally don't like to read too many reviews months before seeing the pictures -- for this edition, which...
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Burning Questions: The Dumbing Down of Star Trek
Did you see "Into Darkness" this weekend?Hey everybody. Michael C. here. When the Trekkies complain that the JJ Abrams reboot had abandoned the spirit of the franchise, I understand their point. I am...
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Stage Door: Far From Heaven...THE MUSICAL!!!
Since we're in the heat of Tony season, you get TWO screen-to-stage posts this week. Here's the first one (though perversely both shows are not on Broadway and are thus ineligible for those awards)...
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Monday Monologue: “There is no Barbara Novak”
Andrew again, with your weekly monologue. Chances are, if you’re asked to remember what films were tickling your fancy a decade ago you wouldn’t turn to Peyton Reed’s sophomore effort Down with Love. I...
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Early Bird Oscar Predix Nearly Finished !
Working as fast as I can through the first wave of Oscar charts. I realize 'fast as I can' this year is snail-paced but you have to agree that this year has been a slow-starter anyway. Not that things...
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Rite of Link
straight outta CannesGuardian wonders why Sofia Coppola is so obsessed with pole dancing. The pole is back for Bling RingMCN David Poland has several capsule thoughts on Cannes films. This is my...
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