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BAFTA Winners & Gowns
Since they aren't broadcasting the ceremony live across the pond -- we'll get an edited tape-delayed version -- we aren't watching. We'll only give BAFTA its due once it joins us in the 21st century....
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14 Days Til Oscar: "All About Titanic"
[Our countdown to Hollywood's High Holy Night continues. Here's abstew with a fun "battle"] We've only 14 days to go. It seemed like the perfect time to take a look at the two films that jointly hold...
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Podcast: Our Favorite Films by This Year's "Best Directors"
It's a special edition of the Podcast. And by special I don't mean "filled with sound problems for which I apologize" but that we're not staying in the now but looking back. Joe and Nick join Nathaniel...
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When All Acting Nominees Come From Best Pictures...
If you're an Oscar stats geek, you should check out the new blog 1:37:1 which responded to the recent debate about whether or not the number of Oscar-nominated films is shrinking due to the expanded...
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All the BAFTA Acceptance Speeches
I would like to thank the academy... the audiences... the clipreels... the cast and crew... the parents of the cast and crew... the podium... the microphones... the cameras... the gown-makers... and...
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Beauty Vs Beast: Oscar Hustle
JA from MNPP here with this week's edition of everybody's new favorite fun-time activity Beauty Vs. Beast, wherein we pit a movie's good and bad guys against each other in a death-match of public...
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Monologue: Kate Hepburn Jabbers Away in "Alice Adams"
It's actually difficult to find speeches for our monologue series which accounts for its haphazard appearance at The Film Experience. With Anne Marie's brilliant chronological "A Year With Kate"...
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13 Days Til Oscar: Matthew McConaughey... And the 2000 Best Actress Race?
[The Oscar countdown continues with new contributor Matthew Eng - he wrote that popular Jennifer Lawrence piece! -- making a fascinating cross gender lines comparison to 13 years back] Thirteen years...
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Box Office: Everything Is (Still) Awesome!
Amir here, with the long weekend’s box office report. It was Valentine’s so romantic flicks opened, one of which didn’t do too well financially. But enough about RoboCop! How about that About Last...
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Curio: Oscar Party Craftiness
Alexa here with the weekly arts and crafts curio. Listening to Joe, Nick and Nathaniel's discussion of Oscar parties reminded me about all the Oscar games and crafts I've been ambitiously bookmarking...
View Article"Unbroken" Is it Middlebrow WW II Oscar Bait or Something More?
Did you catch this preview of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken (2014) during the Olympics. The internet keeps calling it a "trailer" which it really isn't. I wish the internet would understand that words have...
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I am link parts, link skin, link heart... ♫
The Wrap Frozen nearing the $1 billion mark globally. Unreal.Mail Online Matt Damon faxes his buttcheeks to Ben Affleck... for charity. No really. The Dissolve on the broken down grace of Bill Murray...
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12 Days Til Oscar: Best Picture Nominations by the Dozen
Tim here, with your daily dose of Oscar numerology. We’re now in the third year of the Academy’s undoubtedly well-intentioned "some random number that always turns out to be nine" approach to selecting...
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About Last Weekend...
TFE loves the 80s all up in our modern bizness, here's Jose to do the remake vs original battle As you well know by now, the holiday weekend at the box office saw the arrival of four new major film...
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Interview: Michael O'Connor on "Fussy" Costumes & Principal Actresses
A curious reversal: I'm discussing Oscar-voting with costume designer Michael O'Connor, an Oscar winner for The Duchess (2008) nominated again for his work on the Dickensian romantic drama The...
View ArticleCrying Jags via "Hollywood Acting Studio"
Have you ever watched "Hollywood Acting Studio" it's often quite funny even if, like a lot of web series, it doesn't quite realize that online audiences are allergic to anything over 3 or 4 minutes....
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Contest: See Toni Collette & Marisa Tomei on Broadway!
I have a special surprise for you NYC-area readers whose actressexuality extends beyond the silver screen to the stage. I have one pair of tickets for the March 12th dress rehearsal of the new Broadway...
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11 Days Til Oscar. Bette Midler & Original Song
Bright and early this morning they announced that Bette Midler will be performing at the Oscars for the first time. That's shocking to type since she's had so many great movie musical moments in her...
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Link Commando
Vanity Fair Bradley Cooper's commando White House tripTheater Mania a screening of West Side Story on Sunday at 5 PM in New York. Rita Moreno will speak to the crowd. Who's going?PopBytes Pushing...
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A Year With Kate: Alice Adams (1935)
Episode 8 of 52 wherein Anne Marie screens all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order I’ve spent a long time looking at photos of Kate for this blog. It’s not just that she’s beautiful....
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