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Curio: Cinema Carvings
Alexa here. Every Halloween I hope to carve a cool pop culture pumpkin, but inertia usually takes over (although this year I was pretty happy with my Jack-o'-Louis C.K.). Here are some of my favorite...
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Oscar Horrors: Nosy Neighbor Finale
Editor's Note: This is the final entry in our Oscar Horrors miniseries. We really hope you enjoyed all 17 entries -- full index at the bottom of this post. Should we do it again next year? (Yes, there...
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October. It's a Wrap
With October gone -- our favorite month! *sniffle* -- gone, all that's left is holidays (are you prepared?) and Oscars (yes!) . If you were so foolish to miss even a single day here at The Film...
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The Linkers Grimm
MUBI James Benning is experimenting with John Cassavettes Faces (1968) for a "remake" installation.Antenna has valid thoughtful concerns about both of the new fantasy series on TV, Grimm and Once Upon...
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How Long Has It Been Since You've Seen "Close Encounters"?
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind turns 34 this month. On a whim recently we put in the 30th anniversary edition Blu-Ray* and gave it a spin. I hadn't seen the movie since I was a...
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"What kind of person marries someone they don't know?"
You did. I want to win. All my life I've wanted to win. Me too. Dear Toni Collette, I have loved you in everything I've seen you in. I can't think of an example where I didn't. You wowed in The...
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Feinberg & Friends
Scott Feinberg started a podcast at the Hollywood Reporter a month back. Each week he has a different guest and it's yours truly this week. I haven't listened to it but, then, I was there during the...
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Today, I am off blog visiting an advanced ESL class -- i'm teaching interview skills -- and then it's on to a Tintin screening. In short: swamped but I'll write at you as soon as possible. What's on...
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Kiki, the Runway Bride
Here comes the bride, all dressed depressed in white ♬ Should the Apocalypse ever need to take wife, it couldn't do better than to kneel before one Kirsten Dunst and beg for her hand in unholy...
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John Williams Heading Toward Oscar Nomination #46
John Williams © Chad Batka, New York TimesIn the long history of the Academy Awards, only one man can claim more nominations than composer John Williams. And that man, long gone, is now less a man and...
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The Best Thing Joel Schumacher Has Done Since...?
Sweet relief! Should anyone feel compelled to ask oft-derided director Joel Schumacher "what have you done for us lately?" he need no longer sheepishly mumble "Trespass with Nic & Nic". Instead he...
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Nicole's Perpetual Elephant Love Medley
As if Nicole Kidman hadn't done enough for the mystique of elephants! Ten years ago in Moulin Rouge! (see previous posts) she famously lived, loved, and playfully sang on top of a giant bejewelled...
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Distant Relatives: 8½ and Synecdoche, New York
Robert here w/ Distant Relatives, exploring the connections between one classic and one contemporary film. Portrait of the Artist as a Confused Man Perhaps the idea of a filmmaker making a film about...
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Live-Blogging the Bond 23 "Skyfall" Press Conference
I couldn't begin to tell you why I do the things I do but rather than make you watch all 28 minutes of the Bond 23 conference, I'm watching it for you; I'm a giver. 007 by way of 11/03 50th...
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Destry Links Again
Film Misery offers up "51 Movies to See Before Oscar Night". Get screening, people./Film details on Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive follow-up Only God Forgives starring Ryan Gosling and a "merciless and...
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Pip Pip Hooray For Helena
JA from MNPP here. I consider myself fairly well read, and yet lately the news has seemed stuffed with exceptions where I have to admit that oh, somehow that book that I'm supposed to have read slipped...
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Stage Door: Audra's Toes, "Sweeney Peron", Busch's Hepburn and "Big Fish"
Audra McDonald rehearsing for "Porgy & Bess"Theater geeks who read The Film Experience (there be crossover!) might have been wondering what happened to the stage door column. The truth is we just...
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Interview: Pixar's Enrico Casarosa and "La Luna"
Michael C here to give you a sneak peak of a Pixar pleasure headed your way soon. High on the long list of reasons to love Pixar is their devotion to bringing top quality animated shorts to the...
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