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18 Animated Features for Oscar. Will 5 Nominees Bring Diversity?
It will undoubtedly seem strange to chase Michael's Pixar interview with another reminder that I have no patience for Cars 2, but I must. With the reveal of the Best Animated Feature submission list,...
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European Award Noms (Shades of Oscar, 2011 AND 2010)
Our Oscar chart updates are underway (much more coming at you tomorrow) and now The European Film Award nominations are out. The Film Experience always enjoys their attempt at boiling down so many...
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Old Hollywood loves Federico Fellini. Isn't that an amazing sketch (left)? It's Fellini's first rendering of Gelsomina from La Strada. The Sheila Variations a beautiful birthday piece about crushing on...
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Box Office: Antonio Ascends Again
Puss in Boots is officially a big deal. The seductive cat dropped only 3% in his second weekend which is as miraculous as having nine lives, since 40% drops are far more common. That indicates amazing...
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Naked Gold Man: Oscar Wears No Watch, But It's All in the Timing
With more and more of the heretofore unseen contenders (Tintin, J Edgar, Young Adult, War Horse, etcetera) beginning to show their goods to tastemakers and balloting voters of various orgs &...
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It's "Action!" for Bond 23 SKYFALL
What a lovely image to wake up to this morning... Don't you just love clapboards? Skyfall (aka BOND 23) shooting has begun and here's photographic proof from the official James Bond twitter account...
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Thoughts I Had While Reading Harry Potter's "CONSIDER..."
This Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 "Consider..." FYC booklet arrived in the mail a couple of days ago so I thought I'd read it with you. Aren't I considerate?! I can't scan it in as...
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Kiera vs. Dakota: Who Will Make the Greater Artist's Muse?
With all the projects in development in the world drawn from an infinite number of topics, it's always curious to note how many of them inexplicably arise simultaneously on the same topics. Thompson in...
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Links: Shoot Kristen Wiig, Vote Hugo Cabret, Fire Brett Rattner
Deadline is Hugo a serious Best Picture contender. Industry giants are getting behind it's 3D immersiveness and movie love.Animation Mag ginger tomcats on the rise and it's not just Puss in Boots. Here...
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Q&A Pt. 1: Sexy Time, Big Scares, Grace Casting, Favorite Kubrick
As an apology for always taking so damn long with these Q & A columns, I'm doing two this week, but shorter just so I can get some questions done. I'm glad the feature is so popular so thanks for...
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BAFTA Guru: Tilda & Meryl
Have you heard of the BAFTA Guru initiative? It's a new venture from the British Academy meant to benefit young actors and filmmakers (target market: 18-30) who are just starting out though surely any...
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Curio: Bill, Bill Everywhere
Alexa here. It's hard to avoid the explosion of Bill Murray art lately. First there was September's show at The R&R Gallery in Los Angeles devoted to Bill Murray tribute art. And now Gallery1988's...
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Parties: Kneel Before Michael Shannon, Compare Tattoos with Amy Ryan
Party Reporting! It sounds like the cushiest job ever except that the pay is in free drinks and bite sized foods and you can't make rent with that. You can however find them delicious, which I do....
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10th Anniversary Top Ten: "Once More With Feeling"
One of the all time best episodes of anything ever turned ten just a week(ish) ago... but I wanted to celebrate on a Tuesday. Dawn's in trouble? Must be Tuesday." That means for the past week and for...
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45 Animated Shorts: Oscar Will Choose 10... Then 5.
This is the list of 45 animated shorts that the Academy is considering in the Best Animated Shorts category (with links to official sites when I could find them). The Animated, Docs, and Shorts Oscar...
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Clara and soldiers in "WINGS", the first Best Picture winnerThe Film Doctor offers 7 notes on J Edgar (mostly in relation to two time jumping powerful men classics it attemptes to emulate: The Social...
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Complete the Oscary Sentence...
"If I could talk to ______________ about the Oscars, I would tell [him/her/them/it] that _______________________ ." P.S. If you were interviewing Mike Mills (Beginners), actors Ben Foster and Olivia...
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Mama Bening Baby Wiig
JA from MNPP here. Have you heard about Imogene? Out next year, it's Kristen Wiig's follow-up to Bridesmaids - actually it's a project she'd been trying to get off the ground for ages that the super...
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Can Documentaries Break Free From Their Own Category?
Amir here. When it comes to the Oscars, one of the things I love to complain about each year is the Foreign Language category. That’s hardly a surprise since the category gets so much flak from...
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