Jane Campion's Gorgeous Cannes Jury
Cannes is but 17 days away and we'll have a TFE team member there this year! Alas it's not me so I'll have to be envious of Diana as she jets off to France in two weeks. We already knew that the...
View ArticleBeauty Vs Beast: War of the Plastics
JA from MNPP here, bringing our weekly "Beauty Vs Beast" competition to North Shore High School for Mean Girls Week, The Film Experience's ongoing celebration of the film's 10th anniversary. That's...
View ArticleI'm not aware of too many things, i link what I link, if you know what I mean
Hello Cinema has a really fascinating conversation about the reception of foreign films, Iranian and elsewhere, in North America referencing interesting movies like A Separation, Leila, Mother of...
View ArticleTribeca: Bits and Pieces
Glenn wrapping up his Tribeca film coverage with five films including Elisabeth Moss, Roman Polanski, Emory Cohen, Melonie Diaz, and the memory of a fashion icon. The One I Love Catching up with this...
View ArticleTribeca: An Order of Schmaltz
It's our last day of Tribeca reviews. Here's Abstew on "Chef" It is definitely a good time to be a foodie. We live in a golden age where an ingenious pastry chef can fuse together a croissant and a...
View ArticlePodcast: Mean Girls Commentary, Two Parts
You own a copy of Mean Girls (2004), right? Pull it off the shelf, rent it or Netflix Instant it (it expires May 1st!) so you can watch as you listen to this podcast. In this very special 10th...
View ArticleTony Award Noms 2014: Much Movie-to-Stage Madness
The Tony Award Nominations are upon us. 8:30 AM is, I think, officially my favorite time each day. It's always when award nominations for anything are announced. Plus I've already had a cup of coffee,...
View ArticleCurio: Michelle Pfeiffer Turns 56
Alexa here. Like Nathaniel I adore Michelle Pfeiffer and can't pass up the chance to mention that she is turning 56 today. Oh if only she were as ubiquitous a presence during awards season as Meryl...
View ArticleTribeca: Do You Hear What You Hear
Here's Jason reporting on the Joss Whedon-scripted In Your Eyes out of Tribeca. In 2007 when Radiohead released their album In Rainbows directly online for fans, asking them to pay whatever they wanted...
View ArticleTribeca: How To Recover From A Breakup, Indie Style
Diana reporting on a thematic trend at Tribeca Relationships end. Goodbyes, no matter how “amiable,” are awkward and feelings are hurt or mangled. We have all been there and survived. Like the worst of...
View ArticleTribeca: The Best Film I Saw Was "Bad Hair" (and Other Oscar-Related Thoughts)
I hope this is Venezuela's Oscar entry! This article is an expansion of a brief piece originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad The best of the LGBT lot at Tribeca this year was surely...
View ArticleHit Me With Your Best Shot: Mean Girls (2004)
For this week's Hit Me With Your Best Shot, we're reairing one of the earliest of episodes. We invited new readers to select a shot if they weren't around in 2010 when "Best Shot" first began so this...
View ArticleApril Showers: The Paperboy
waterworks at eleven, here’s Andrew with a brief one Would anyone be willing to stand with me when I declare The Paperboy to be the best thing Lee Daniels has done? The movie is undeniably crazy,...
View ArticleTribeca: "Glass Chin," A Glossy Neo-Noir
Here's Diana with our final Tribeca Film Festival 2014 review It’s a chilly, damp night in a small urban city. On a nightly jog, a sweatpant-outfitted man and his dog trudge and bound respectively...
View ArticleLink Wars: Episode VII
For those looking for the new Oscar charts, I promise it's the top priority now once all this surprisingly busy April madness wraps tonight. More Intelligent Life on badass Angelina Jolie and...
View Article"I know what you're thinking: Home schooled kids are freaks!"
[Our Mean Girls week concludes with a really fresh angle I think you'll love. Here's Tim on being a home schooled freak. - Nathaniel R] Tim here. I can't tell you how many times I, a perpetually...
View ArticleA Year with Kate: Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Episode 18 of 52 of Anne Marie's chronological look at Katharine Hepburn's career. In which I'm not entirely sure what's going on but it seems to involve boy scouts and fascism. So, you’re a major...
View ArticleTribeca Is a Wrap for The Film Experience
Thanks for following along with our Tribeca adventures and remember to follow Glenn, Diana, Jason, Abstew and myself on twitter for continual movie madness. Here are the 40 films we reviewed this year...
View ArticleHot Docs '14: Actress
[Amir, our Canadian correspondent, is reporting from The Hot Docs Film Festival, the biggest documentary festival in North America currently underway in Toronto.] Where does an act end for a...
View ArticleApril Showers: Silkwood
The waterworks conclude with the month's last entry from abstew. And it's a doozy... Although the most famous shower scene in the history of film may belong to Hitchcock's Psycho, no other cinematic...
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