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Distant Relatives: Repulsion and Black Swan
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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Let's Do the Link Warp Again
A note for impatient readers: My top ten list is coming (I'm aiming for January 1st / 2nd) but first there's a couple year in reviews things and an interview with Kirsten Dunst. The new site will be...
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Crybaby Countdown: The Tearjerk-iest Moments of 2010
year in reviewKurt here from Your Movie Buddy, getting honest about choking up. I live to cry at the movies, but it's so, so rare. It's like genuine belly laughs: they're great, but they just don't...
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The Year In Funny
year in review parts 1-7 tear-jerkers, music videos, worst films, gay characters and more... Four LionsMichael C. from Serious Film here for a few good laughs.Any future film historians examining the...
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Interview: The Return of Kirsten Dunst (A Very Good Thing)
at the NYC premiereof All Good Things.It might sound silly to say, but seeing her in the flesh is something of a shock. Kirsten Dunst has been in the movies for many years, and she's made such...
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Welcome!
"Willkommen, Velkommen, 환영합니다 Aloha, Bem-vindo, Bienvenue, 欢迎, Bienvenido, مرحبا بكم, Vítejte, etcetera" A fresh new year, a fresh new site! HAPPY 2011. The Film Experience is nearly "whole" as it...
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Lambert & Huppert in "White Material"
"There can be only one..."...01 / 01 / 11How about that funky date today? Happy New Year.The New Year couldn't come soon enough because I was informed yesterday that this blog had run out of storage...
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Linking Soon
Jackie Beat superstar drag icon reviews The Stepford Wives (1975).Cinema Blend Katey's top 10 list. I forgot to link up at the time but I'm always curious what friends will choose. We're about to...
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Pete Postlethwaite (1946-2011)
The death of Pete Postlethwaite yesterday at 64 of cancer will undoubtedly be felt at the movies. He's been a regular key ensemble player for a solid two decades now. 2010 was another big year for him:...
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Quentin Tarantino's Top Ten
No, no not mine. Not Nathaniel's. my top ten list is coming. Patience. I was waiting for the new site to be available but it's still coming and going. It apparently fancies itself an online Brigadoon...
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A Second Look At "True Grit"
Last night, I began what I thought would be a live-blog of True Grit. I scrapped it without posting as it was basically a series of line quotations; presumably you don't come to the blog to watch me...
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OFCS Winners
The Online Film Critics Society announced their winners this morning. It's the expected winners who've 'worn a groove' as Sasha has been known to say. So everyone votes for them and shall for the rest...
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"I'm an excellent driver"
Yes, readers, the blog goes right here. Everything's now in one place. (Well, everything except co-productions which alternate location like Best Pictures From the Outside In and such.) Fake Jew, Real...
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Art Directors Guild: Period, Fantasy, Contemporary
The power of eye candy at the movies is greatly underestimated. Whole star turns can be elevated with the right costuming choices and entire films can be propped up with meaning, beauty, authenticity...
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Mama's Getting Hot: Babs for Gypsy?
Fockin' BarbraBy now, should you have a known predilection for movie musicals or Barbra Streisand as musical comedienne (we endorse both predilections, though we can do without Babs otherwise), someone...
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USC Scripter Nominations
If you're new to the awards game -- and there are some newbies every year welcome! -- the USC is a screenplay honor with a very specific focus. The idea is to honor "the year's most accomplished...
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Academy's F/X Branch Votes Movies Off Their Magical Island
The idea of "bakeoffs" that some of the technical Oscar branches use, wherein voting members check out showreels of various films and narrow down the field, is interesting. I'm glad they don't do it...
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Blogger Man: Turn Off the Link
Serious Film Michael (a TFE columnist) is counting down his favs of the year.Final Girl Stacy's cartoons of the Friday the 13th series almost make it seems as cute as a Pixar movie... okay no. I amend....
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De Niro to Cannes: You Screenin' For Me?
"Huh? Huh? Faster than you. Saw you coming. I'm standing here. You make the movie. You make the movie. It's your movie. You screenin' for me? You screenin' for me? Then who the else are you screening...
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One Week Left of Voting. Best Actor Battles.
With only 18 days left until the big announcement, the fever is rising. Over at my Tribeca Film Oscar column I'm sounding off on True Grit's hit status, the uncertain Supporting Actress race (it's the...
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