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Links. The Top Three Best Whatevah!
Serious Film does an all time 5 best cinematography ballot. The best ever? Hmmmm. Well they're all stunning at the very leastTFE Facebook my 3 favorite film scores off the top of my head. I was...
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TIFF: Twelve Ye... Oh, Let's Just Oscar Update
Twelve Years a Slave is... God, I'm going to need some time to collect myself. Good grief but that movie is harrowing / amazing. That's all I got for now. Can we discuss later when I've stopp... I...
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Nicole Kidman is Indestructible
Two items appeared on Page Six's feed back-to-back today. Photo 1. A paparazzi on a bike reportedly "plowed" into Nicole Kidman here in NYC. Curse him. Memorize the face. Worst person ever. But no...
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The Terrifying Beauty of The Pfeiffer
My friend Joe Reid didn't write this Michelle Pfeiffer list for me. Tribeca Film pays him, yknow and The Family is now in theaters so the time is right. But all things Pfeiffer pfeel like they're pfor...
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Robert Redford is "The Candidate"
Team Experience is looking at key Robert Redford films as we approach the release of his lauded Oscar-buzzing comeback "All is Lost". Here's Tim Brayton on one of his milestone films. In addition to...
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TIFF Quickies: Young & Beautiful, Honeymoon, and Belle
Brief notes on three more TIFF pictures HONEYMOONMaybe I would be a fan of Jan Hrebejk if I saw more of his pictures? He's been submitted three times for Oscar consideration in Best Foreign Film but of...
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TIFF: "Gravity" & "Eleanor Rigby: Him / Her"
Here's to grand ambition, the spiritual cousin of self-sabotage; whatever scale filmmakers are working on, it's a thin (blood)line that separates them. An noble arguable failure and an unwieldy...
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Burning Questions: War of the Five (Nerd) Kings
Hey everybody, Michael C. here. There are certain phrases entertainment writers are fond of throwing around until they lose all meaning. If pop culture pundits are to believed at any given moment there...
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What's on your cinematic mind? I'm prepping for three actress interviews (!!!) and tonight's podcast so I've no time to write. Your turn in the comments.
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Podcast: All About TIFF, Our Festival Takeaways
For this week's podcast, a special Toronto International Film Festival edition. Your regular players Nathaniel, Katey and Nick welcome Tim Robey from the Daily Telegraph and Angelo Muredda from Film...
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Lauren Bacall Gave Good Face
JA from MNPP here, putting my lips together and blowing a very happy 89th birthday in the direction of the living legend Betty Joan Perske... that is, Lauren Bacall. Next year marks the 70th...
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The Story Of Film: An Odyssey
Anne Marie here with a mixed blessing for film lovers. Turner Classic Movies is hosting the American premiere of The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, a fifteen part documentary on the history of film by...
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"In years to come, they will continue to whisper your name NICOL... I mean...
The teaser for Grace of Monaco has finally arrived and it is one money shot of Goddess and/or Opulence and/or FYC Advertisement after another, all to further iconize Grace Kelly through another film...
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Stage Door: The ghost of Smash haunts First Date
In Stage Door we share our live theatre adventures here in NYC through our movie-mad filter… Glenn here. The poster for the Longacre Theatre’s First Date makes it look, shall we say, rather...
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Box Office Ten
No, no. Not the top ten actual grosses from last weekend but ten things worth noting. 1. Any article about this weekend's movies that does not mention Short Term 12 is just a giant waste of time....
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Creative Arts Emmys: Lily & Melissa & Liberace
The Emmys have 5 bajillion categories so they can't announce them all on their PrimeTime ceremony (next Sunday! We'll live blog or something?) so last night they did their 'not ready for primetime'...
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Curio: Happy Birthday Baz
Alexa here. Today is Baz Luhrmann's birthday, his 51st if you're interested in counting. After Gatsby, is a Nathaniel-prognosticated vampire remake on its way? Or perhaps a zombie opera? Bollywood...
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TIFF 2014 Vow
I will do this better next year. I will do this better next year. Steep learning curve I experienced schedule-wise at the Toronto International Film Festival. One must build in travel from...
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Thoughts I Had... While Staring at This Poster for "Nebraska"
Behold the new poster for Alexander Payne's Oscar Bait, 2013 Edition. Thoughts I had... brought to you uncensored as they came to me while staring at it. • This is why I shave my head. • Gee, do you...
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Coming Soon... Supporting Actress 1980
It's just 12 days until the next Supporting Actress Smackdown! For the rest of the month we'll be nibbling on 1980 (Year of the Month) each day at noon as buildup to Monday September 30th's big event....
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