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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #87. John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary
Calvary Director/Writer: John Michael McDonagh Producer(s): Reprisal Films’ Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo with Octagon Films’s James Flynn U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Kelly Reilly, Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Brendan Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson,
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #88. Liza Johnson’s Hateship Friendship
Hateship Friendship Director: Liza Johnson Writer(s): Mark Poirier (Smart People, Goats) Producer(s): Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Cassian Elwes, Jamin O’Brien, Dylan Sellers U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld,
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: # 89. John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings
Kill Your Darlings Director/Writer: John Krokidas Writer(s): Krokidas and Austin Bunn Producer(s): Krokidas, Killer Films’ Christine Vachon, Benaroya Pictures’ Michael Benaroya, Rose Pictures’ Rose Ganguzza U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen,
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #90. Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace
Out of the Furnace Director: Scott Cooper Writer(s): Cooper and Brad Ingelsby Producer(s): Michael Costigan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Brooklyn Weaver U.S. Distributor: Relativity Media Cast: Christian
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #91. Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January
The Two Faces of January Director/Writer: Hossein Amini Producer(s): Tom Sternberg, Working Title’s Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo. U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac Since 2011′s
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #92. Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man
The Railway Man Director: Jonathan Teplitzky Writer(s): Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and Andy Paterson Producer(s): Archer Street Productions’ Andy Paterson, Chris Brown and Bill Curbishley U.S. Distributor: Rights
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #93. Susanne Bier’s Serena
Serena Director: Susanne Bier Writer(s): Christopher Kyle Producer(s): 2929 Productions’ Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, Ben Cosgrove, Chockstone Pictures’ Paula Mae and Steve Schwartz, Nick Wechsler U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley
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5 Broken Cameras Wins Best Doc at 2013 Cinema Eye Honors
Sorry Oscars. But after the Indie Spirit Awards, the number two spot in terms of Award Season importance are the Cinema Eye Honors. Seems like it was only yesterday when AJ Schnack & Thom
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #94. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet
The Young and Prodigious Spivet Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Writer(s): Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant Producer(s): Frédéric Brillion and Gilles Legrand U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Helena Bonham Carer (T.S.’s mom), Callum Keith Rennie as his
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #95. Errol Morris’ Freezing People is Easy
Freezing People is Easy Director: Errol Morris Writer(s): Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction) Producer(s): Film Rites’ Steven Zaillian and Garrett Basch with Ira Glass, Alissa Shipp U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Paul Rudd, Kristen
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #96. Spike Lee’s Oldboy
Oldboy Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Mark Protosevich (first credit was The Cell) Producer(s): Quandrant Pictures’ Doug Davison, Primal Pictures’ Roy Lee U.S. Distributor: Film District Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #97. Denis Coté’s Vic & Flo ont vu un ours
Vic & Flo ont vu un ours Director/Writer: Denis Côté Producer(s): Metafilms’ Sylvain Corbeil, Stéphanie Morissette (Camion) U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Marc-André Grondin, Romane Bohringer, Marie Brassard, Pierrette Robitaille Ever since his docu-like
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #98. Phil Morrison’s Almost Christmas
Almost Christmas Director: Phil Morrison Writer(s): Melissa James Gibson Producer(s): Touchy Feely Films’ Daniel Carey and Elizabeth Giamatti, SKE’s Sidney Kimmel and GreeneStreet Films’ John Penotti U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Paul Rudd, Paul
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #99. Lukas Moodysson’s We Are The Best!
We Are The Best! Director/Writer: Lukas Moodysson Producer(s): Memfis Film’s Lars Jönsson U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne in the main roles as Bobo, Klara and Hedvig with supporting
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #100. Shaul Schwarz’s Narco Cultura
Narco Cultura Director: Shaul Schwarz Producer(s): Ocean Size Pictures’ Todd Hagopian, Parts and Labor’s Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Despite being an avid fan of the docu form circa
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2013 Oscars: Amour and Beasts Of The Southern Wild In; The Master Out
Palme d’Or winner Amour & Sundance sensation Beasts Of The Southern Wild are in. Venice & TIFF shown The Master is out. Lincoln (12 noms) and Life Of Pi (11 noms) were tops in
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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Amy Berg
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This month’s featured docu filmmaker needs little introduction – her debut (2006) Deliver Us from Evil was nominated
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Draft Day, A Country of Strangers & Rodham Top the 2012 Black List
There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of
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2013 January Screenwriters Labs: Andrew Renzi, Jan Kwiecinski & Rapper K’naan Heading to Sundance Resort
Every year, precisely the week before we toast to a new edition of the Sundance Film Festival, there is a lucky set of a dozen or more scribes who head of to the Sundance
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If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle’s Ada Condeescu & Lorna’s Silence’s Arta Dobroshi Among Shooting Stars Ten of 2013
Actress Ada Condeescu who has in just a trio of films (award-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, the Cannes selected Loverboy and the much anticipated Wolf) and Arta Dobroshi’s whose stunning career
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As Predicted…Dupieux’s Wrong Cops and Silva’s Magic Magic Among Final Add-ons to Sundance 2013
Not sure why these films weren’t part of the original announcements, but as originally predicted (here and here), 2013 Sundance Film Festival has added Quentin Dupieux’s wacko film project Wrong Cops to the New
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Romanian Presence for Cannes 2013?: Police, Adjective’s Corneliu Porumboiu Counts ‘A Nine-Minute Interval’
Critics who flock to Cannes every year and the cinephiles who can’t get enough of the Romania’s contributions to art-house cinema will be pleased to learn that (according to Filmneweurope) 12:08 East of Bucharest and
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Berberian Sound Studio’s Peter Strickland Officially out of his Cocoon with ‘The Duke of Burgundy’
Hot off what has turned out to be a great 2012 — his sophomore film, the Locarno & TIFF presented Berberian Sound Studio has just picked up four British Independent Film Award wins including
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Rotterdam’s 2013 CineMart includes Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Rowe’s Rest Home, Porterfield’s Sollers Point and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
A first look into what’s ahead from some of our favorite auteurs, 2013′s CineMart (held during the Int. Film Festival Rotterdam) boosts an impressive selection of projects from the likes of Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel
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Searching for Grace: Tribeca Film & Focus World Pact on ‘Greetings from Tim Buckley’
Blame a 2012 Toronto Int. Film Fest edition that was simply too stuffed to the gills to present the film at a better venue (it played thrice – a pair of screenings at the
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
