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Mighty Submissions? Mexico's Got "Miss Bala" and China's Got Christian Bale
In the most mainstream-ready news yet for this year's Best Foreign Language Film competition, China has submitted Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War. The movie has changed titles at least three times now...
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Cinema de Gym: 'Megamind'
Editor's Note: In Cinema de Gym, Kurt writes about whichever piece of whichever movie was playing while he cardio'ed. I wish my gym would play movies. Kurt here with the first Cinema de Gym column to...
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NYFF: "Melancholia" This Is The Way The World Ends
[Editor's Note: Our NYFF coverage begins! You'll be hearing from Michael and Kurt and me. -Nathaniel] Hey, everybody. Serious Film’s Michael C. here reporting from the New York Film Festival. I’m...
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Linknesses
Just Jared The Rum Diary gets a Johnny Depp-centric poster, opens in October... "absolutely nothing in moderation" tagline. What'cha think?IndieWire Millenium buys Rampart and aims for an Oscar push...
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Review: "Moneyball"
Moneyball is an instant contradiction, a fine humanistic film championing an innovative but dehumanizing method of team-building, reducing all star athletes to statistical equations. The film has two...
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Small Screen: Prime and Suspect Pilots
I promised a bit more TV talk this year and though I haven't seen any show that would inspire me to cover it weekly (Mad Men and True Blood are rare beasts, as interesting to write about as they are to...
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Olsen ♥ Pfeiffer
Thanks to Marcus to alerting me to this. Olsen's fond memory: meeting Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of "I Am Sam"Seems that Elizabeth Olsen, currently Oscar buzzing for her performance as a cult member...
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Box Office: Brad vs. Simba. And Other Stories...
Brad on the greenThe lion is still the king of the jungle. Moneyball's opening was very respectable but a bit softer than Brad Pitt's usual opening weekend numbers. My guess is that too many people who...
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Link Basket
La Daily Musto turns out Lourdes is in her mamma's movie W.E.Deadline does a post-mortem on Drive's box office failure. Young men didn't show up. Can we all agree that I'm a genius for my sure to be...
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Secret Messages: "Soused Logic"
secret messages from the movies... 1st season! Darling, ---- Just because you got me soused last night doesn't alter the logic of the situation. Good bye Good luck." Can you guess the movie? Check your...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Joyful Noise"
Warning: I am kind of unfairly in hate with this movie through no fault of its own. I accidentally deleted this entire post after it was all written, photo'ed and scheduled to publish. Argh. In the...
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NYFF: "The Loneliest Planet" With Gael García Bernal
The first of the senses that writer/director Julia Loktev hits us with over the opening black screen is sound. We heara rhythmic pounding/creaking/breathing that's hard to place (sex scene?...
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All Male Revue: Brad, Andy and Ryan (who is just too Ryan).
The Film Experience is known the world over for its actressy devotions but for this quickie link-list, we've gone Men Only for some reason. Must be all that Best Actor talk in the air... or rather in...
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Q&A: Shady Ladies, Brutal Scuffles, and Winsletisms
I begin with the lamest of blog clichés, an apology about my tardiness with the Q&A column. Somehow I completely forgot to do my "A"s last Monday despite asking you for the "Q"s. I've been lost in...
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Michelle & Tim's 20th Anniversary Reunion
Michelle Pfeiffer and Tim Burton reunited on the set of Dark Shadows... nice visual. It only took two decades! For reasons we've never understood since we don't hear that she's particular "difficult"...
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Sleep Deprivation, Hungarian Potatoes & Oscar Charts
Yesterday morning I had to pass up a chance to see Hungary's Foreign Film submission The Turin Horse which saddened me. But half an hour of footage of peasants boiling potatoes in black and white mixed...
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Curio: The Driver
Alexa here. After seeing Drive this past weekend I am now one of the legions of obsessives screaming about how cool it is all over the internet. So, of course, I found myself on a search for some...
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NYFF: 'A Dangerous Method' with Keira Unleashed
Kurt here. I'll admit I'm not as well-versed in the work of David Cronenberg as a 27-year-old cinephile should be, but I know enough to confidently conclude that A Dangerous Method, while every bit...
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Tuesday Ten: "Abduction"
Earlier today I got booted from an Oscar contender screening (Mexico's Miss Bala) that was over capacity. There was once this great thing called a "book store" (sound it out. I know it's unfamiliar)...
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Do Oscar Predictions Hurt or Help Films?
Sasha Stone has begun her Oscar Roundtables again this year at Awards Daily. It's kind of like The Film Experience's annual Oscar Symposium only more regular, more crowded, and less a back-n-forth...
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