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The Curious Case of The Grandmaster
Dancin' Dan here with a fun bit of Oscar trivia after nominations. When Wong Kar-Wai's gorgeous The Grandmaster didn't make it into the Best Foreign Language Film category. I wasn't surprised. Wong...
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Happy 50th, Jane Horrocks!
IMDb --> Jane Horrocks --> trade mark: “Very strong Lancashire accent”. The specificity of that might not mean much to anyone outside of the UK (no judgment; I can’t locate Maine on a map), but...
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The 2013 Best Animated Short Oscar nominees
Mickey Mouse is up for his first gold in agesTim here. Having already looked at the newly-minted Best Animated Feature Oscar nominees, let's turn for a little bit towards that category's older, smaller...
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I Lose It For Lanyards
If it were socially acceptable I would fashion entire outfits only out of press badges for festivals. All the festivals. In homage to that gold amex dress from the 1994 Oscars. Or for other totally...
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SAG Winners Win Again
A quick break from festival screenings to shove food in my face (tortilla chips, peppermint patty, a tangerine. Healthy!) and watch a few minutes of the SAG Awards. But I won't be able to do the whole...
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Sundance: Only Lovers Left Alive
Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive. Tom & Tilda - who needs neck pillows travelling when you have each other Before Jim...
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Four Links To Go
Vulgar Cinema "You're nothing to me until you're everything" strong piece on American Hustle E! Why Emma Thompson won at (if not won the) SAG Awards BDC Wire A satirical Bro ode to The Wolf of Wall...
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Box Office: America Goes For a Ride Along
Amir here, with the weekend’s box office report. Initially I had decided to mirror last week’s column and predict Oscar winners based on their current financial gains – hey! It worked for the Globes! –...
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PGA Shocks With a Best Picture Tie
My head is spinning as fast as Sandra Bullock's tiny white spacesuit body during Gravity's terrifying opening calamity. The Producers Guild of America, which could have ended the Oscar race with a win...
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Sundance: With "Boyhood", We Can Officially Crown Richard Linklater King of...
Our Sundance Film Festival continues with Nathaniel on Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" Life can sneak up on you. Individual moments may linger and shape us but most of life's power is cumulative. It's...
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Linking
The Stir Laura Linney had a baby despite none of us knowing she was pregnantThe Wire Joe Reid plans to see all 58 Oscar nominated movies from 2013 LA Times George Clooney pretends to be pissed about...
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Sundance: Mark Ruffalo is a Bipolar Bear
Sundance coverage continues with Nathaniel on Maya Forbes' "Infinitely Polar Bear" Remember when people used to dump on Silver Linings Playbook for reducing mental illness to cutesy romcom obstacles?...
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Sundance: Puccini Goes Avant-Garde
Sundance coverage continues with Glenn on "The Girl from Nagasaki" Avant-garde cinema isn’t for all audiences. The Girl from Nagasaki proves that it’s not for all directors, either. For whatever...
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Curio: Clay Creations
Alexa here. With Frozen being the only thing on my young daughter's mind these days, I've been searching for some non-Disney-manufactured goodies to please her. (Yes, I'm stubborn that way. If we saw...
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Tuesday Top Ten: Working Actors In Need of an Oscar Nomination
[Editor's note: The last time I published a list of this sort Christian Bale was way up top and then The Fighter happened. Time for a new look at the Oscar Nomination-less. While I'm in Sundance,...
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Sundance: It's a Town Full of Losers in God's Pocket
Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on John Slattery's "God's Pocket". Have you, like me, been waiting impatiently for years for a filmmaker to figure out how to...
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With Six You Get Linkroll
Jeremy Cowart tales from a stunning photoshoot starring actor John SchneiderPolicy Mic 7 reasons why Frozen is the most progressive Disney movie Grantland Mark Harris on "The Nolan Effect" and how the...
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Sundance Stills: The Voices, War Story, Song One
One can never be fully caught up at festivals but one does what one can. So today, three quick takes on movies I saw yesterday during a five-film day. Let's use their festival guide images as a framing...
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Sundance: "Obvious Child" is a Funny Hit
Jenny Slate stars in "Obvious Child"Our Sundance Film Festival coverage continues with Michael Cusumano on "Obvious Child". If you have heard Tig Notaro’s astonishing comedy album LIVE you have some...
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A Year With Kate: Little Women (1933)
Episode 4 of 52 Anne Marie is screening all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order. In which we remember childhood fondly. When I was 11, our school librarian told me that if you love a...
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