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Wimps?
Michael C here trying to piece together some conclusions from this first wave of precursors.One thing we can say for certain. With all the support materializing for Black Swan this past week the...
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Take Three: Season 1 Wrap
Craig here with a quick pre-Xmas wrap-up of season #1 of Take Three. If you have a very short memory, that'd be the Sunday Film Experience series which looked at three notable performances from a...
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Will Amy Adams Have a Happy (Oscar-Winning) New Year?
Amy Adams familiar cheer seems ideally suited to the holidays. It makes perfect sense that's she's all ornamented and mistletoed for Parade magazine. She's even sharing a pumpkin pie recipe. Or her...
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Satellite Wins Favor Network, Inception and... Uh... Wonderland.
If you care about the Golden Satellite Awards -- and you'd probably care more if they had a televised ceremony. Television is magic -- you should know that they went for The Social Network for 3 big...
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Mary-Louise Parker Is... Mary Louise Parker!
Thoughts I had while watching... RED (2010)A few years ago I attended one of those New Yorker festival interviews that featured Mary-Louise Parker and the writer/moderator called her "a chameleon"...
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Houston, St. Louis & Florida Name Their Favorites
I'm just going to keep using this one photo I concocted below until people stop with the Hailee Steinfeld is a supporting actress in True Grit meme. I've even seen her so labelled IN REVIEWS that have...
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Links: Dorff, Franco, Hendricks, Robyn
My Life as a Blog "Why I Want a Golden Globe" satiric piece on the greatest awards show gong of all.Vulture I'm not sure how I missed this enjoyable interview with Stephen Dorff but...My New Plaid...
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Chicago Critics: Collegiate Men and Serious Little Girls Dominate.
The Chicago Film Critics are the latest critics association to announce their awards and they've gone, like virtually everyone else, with The Social Network. These 52 critics love Sorkin &...
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Oscar's Music Branch Might Need Some Fine Tuning.
As you may have heard the Academy's music branch has made some rulings about this year's original score eligibility issues. Variety reports that Clint Mansell's Black Swan score (too much Tchaikovsky),...
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Charting Oscar's Age Preferences.
As an addendum to last week's popular Tribeca Film article on the limited age range of Oscar's taste in Best Actresses and a footnote to the is this Hailee Steinfeld thing really happening (?) gripe,...
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Curio: My Holiday Wish List
Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here with your weekly arts and crafts.Every year I dutifully make up a wish list for Christmas, filled with things that I need (cozy socks, a blogging muumuu). But here is a...
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Kathleen Turner Checks Out "The King's Speech"
Look it's Kathleen Turner attending a screening of The King's Speech. (The woman to her right is Jean Doumanian who produced many of Woody Allen's 90s pictures)Photo SrcKathleen has one of the most...
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Never Let Them Go. A Video Essay by Matt Zoller Seitz
Beautifully constructed video essay for L Magazine on 2010 cinema. Worth your ten minutes. I'd embed it here but it's one of those videos that starts immediately without pressing a button. Hate that!
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This Link Roundup Will Soon Be Adapted Into a Stage Musical
Towleroad Far From Heaven being adapted into a stage musical. I've been burned on this sort of thing too many times but at least it's by the composer of Grey Gardens and that had a few lovely tunes....
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Box Office Blather: Spectacles, Star Vehicles, Subtitles and Easy $
Year in Review Pt 1 of ManyIt's time to wrap up 2010. You'll have to have patience since The Film Experience likes to do this piecemeal... and often! Let's do it every day at 10 AM or 10 PM or both...
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Merry Christmahanakwanzukkah. It's an Open Thread.
We've hit some roadblocks and posting may be light for the next few days. Or heavy. You never know. It's the holidays. So let this be an open thread. What's on your mind? To you readers who are...
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My Spider Links Are Tingling
Playbill Julie Andrews and Dolly Parton are both getting special Grammys this year.Pixar Blog another FYC ad for Toy Story 3 as Titanic. Hmmm. I gotta say, I am not sure about the taste level on this...
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More Critics: Oklahoma, Austin, Women Film Critics...
If you'd like to discuss the latest round of critics awards, have at it.Three more groups have announced and so the usual suspects play the game of musical chairs. The most interesting note right off...
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Anticipation... The Year in Film Promotion
Year in ReviewNATHANIEL: Hey kids. So some time ago I was introduced to Mark Blankenship who writes The Critical Condition. I've been reading that blog ever since. Mark writes about everything pop...
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Distant Relatives: Metropolis and District 9
Robert here, with my series Distant Relatives, where we look at two films, (one classic, one modern) related through a common theme and ask what their similarities and differences can tell us about the...
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