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Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Films of 2012: (Picks 5 to 1) Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is #1
5. Amour – Dir. Michael Haneke (Austria) Winner of the Palme D’or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the second for auteur Michael Haneke, much mention has been made about this being Haneke’s warmest,
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IONCINEPHILE: Sean Baker’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of
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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Sean Baker
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This November, we feature Sean Baker, an independent filmmaker whose fourth film, Starlet premiered at this year’s SXSW Film
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Interview: Dree Hemingway and Sean Baker (Starlet)
[Editor's note: This interview was conducted at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival.] Sean Baker’s third feature film, Starlet, finds him exploring the world of sun soaked California through the eyes of porn star Jane,
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2012 SXSW: Starlet | Review
POV Shot: Baker and Hemingway Craft Intricate Tale Pornography, prostitution, and pimping, worlds that are often portrayed as a dark underbelly, away from the center, populated by people we’ve never met and would never
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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."
