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Live-Blog: Oscar Bound Actress Roundtable
We've been waiting for this full video of The Hollywood Reporter's Actress Roundtable for weeks (included at bottom of this post). Last year we had fun live-blogging / discussing it, so... "again!"....
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Gotham Award Winners
The Gotham Awards are going on at Cipriani's even as I type this. As you know Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman, David Cronenberg, and Tom Rothman are being honored with career tributes but competitive...
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Curio: Stanley Chow's Curvilinear Caricatures
Alexa here. UK illustrator Stanley Chow is one of my favorite pop caricaturists. It's great fun to follow his flickr as he is quite prolific, adding posters and portraits weekly, all in his signature...
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NYFCC. (Ready, Set, Go: Awards Season!)
Here we go... Picture THE ARTISTDirector MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS (The Artist)Actress MERYL STREEP (The Iron Lady)Actor BRAD PITT (Moneyball and The Tree of Life) • Big day for The Artist (top two prizes...
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Spirit Awards: "Take Shelter" & "The Artist" Lead the Nominees
The New York Film Critics Circle isn't even finished with its announcements yet and now we've got The Spirit Award nominations. They have the longest lag time between nominations and ceremony since...
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Mike Mills on "Beginners" and Making Stories About Ourselves.
Christopher Plummer and Mike Mills promoting "Beginners"Sometimes the beginning of awards season offers pleasant surprises. Such is the case with Beginners, one of the year's best films, which recently...
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Top Ten: My Favorite Muppets... And Yours?
Camilla's favorite muppet is Gonzo. Duh!I'm going to let Kurt close out our Muppet week tomorrow with a holiday-specific post but before we stop oohing and aahing about our favorite felt friends, I...
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The Scarlet Linker
Hollywood Reporter on the highlights from the Gotham Awards. Patton Oswalt and Elizabeth Olsen were apparently big hits.Tom Shone Best Performances of 2011. Love this fluid quick take annual feature.I...
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November. It's a Wrap
I regret to inform you that there is only one month remaining in 2011. It's been quite a year but we weep that it's nearly over. How can this be? In case you've recently rejoined us -- fair weather...
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Music, Mistletoe and Michael Caine: 'The Muppet Christmas Carol'
Kurt here. If you love Christmas, odds are there's an incarnation of A Christmas Carol of which you take ownership. For me, it's a stage production performed annually at the McCarter Theatre in...
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Complete the Chastainy Sentences...
If I could ask Jessica Chastain one question it'd be this: ________________________________________.She's the new _________________ because ______________ . When I heard she won the first Supporting...
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Congratulations to the Movie-ish Grammy Nominees !
Given that roughly 193,026 musicians can call themselves Grammy nominees for the first time or again in the wake of last night's announcement (so many categories), we'd like to congratulate those...
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David Cronenberg on A Dangerous Method & the "Parallel Universe" of Oscar
Cronenberg hard at work on "A Dangerous Method"I met the great filmmaker David Cronenberg one morning this fall shortly before a screening of his latest work at the New York Film Festival. His new film...
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NBR Awards. Old Favorites Clint, Clooney & Marty Triumphant Again
Though the NBR finally gave up their "first!" crown -- and without so much as a fight! -- they were true to form in other ways. George Clooney & Clint Eastwood can't even sneeze without 92% of the...
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Distant Relatives: The Graduate and Fish Tank
Robert here w/ Distant Relatives, exploring the connections between one classic and one contemporary film. Sedentary and Sex So what do a rough and realistic look at poverty in London and a comedy set...
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President Linkin'
Oh look! via the Film Stage via Splash via Twitter or some such, it's Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (written by the often genius Tony Kushner) ©Michael Phillips / Splash...
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Golden Satellite Potluck Nomination Party!
Bring your own favorites! Oh wait, never mind. They already brought them. Any number of nominees will do! The Golden Satellites are the craziest awards group that no one celebrates for their crazy....
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Win a 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray of "West Side Story"
I've been meaning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of West Side Story (1961) for two months now. I've shirked my duties as a fan. When you're a fan, you're a fan all the way, from your first...
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"even the orchestra is beautiful..."
♪ Leave your troubles outside.So life is disappointing? forget it. In here life is beautiful... The girls are beautiful... EVEN THE ORCHESTRA IS BEAUTIFUL...
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