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Alistair Banks Griffin
June 1, 2010From the beginning, I wanted to craft the film as a sort of Memento mori piece....
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Disc Reviews
Bitch Slap | DVD Review
June 1, 2010...obviously not a film for everyone, and it's definitely not high art. But if beautiful women,...
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World Film Report Spain: Anticipated Releases in Gimenez’s Yellow and Chapero Jackson’s Verbo
May 31, 2010Xavi Giménez, a respected director of photography (Ágora) who collaborated with the company in several occasions...
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World Film Report Israeli: Doc Filled Month with A Film Unfinished and Doc Aviv
May 31, 2010At this year's Hot Docs, perhaps the most important festival in the world documentary circuit was...
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World Film Report Hong Kong: Bodyguards and Assassins’s Great 2010 Run
May 31, 2010In mid April, the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held and Bodyguards and Assassins...
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World Film Report Austria: La Pivellina Slowly Concluding Award-Winning Year
May 31, 2010The Diagonale Festival is over and that means the Austrian Film Prize for Best Feature Film...
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Promo Art for Sarah Polley’s Take this Waltz
May 28, 2010Filming begins this July on Sarah Polley's sophomore project, Take this Waltz - a project that...
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First Look: Paul Dano in So Yong Kim’s For Ellen
May 28, 2010We've got two indie projects that happen to star Paul Dano that we are keen on...
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Interview: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Micmacs)
May 28, 2010At the beginning when we have the concept of the story. Once we know we have...
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Film Review: Father of My Children
May 28, 2010Following her debut film, All is Forgiven which also features a fractured family, Le Père de...
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Reviews
Father of My Children | Review
May 28, 2010Those Who Are Left Behind: Hansen-Løve Displays Those Who Really Suffer For Art.
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Mark Womack
May 27, 2010Last year Ken Loach introduced us to Steve Evets in Looking for Eric, and this year,...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing William Shimell
May 27, 2010Anyone who makes Juillette Binoche cry in my books is not okay. William Shimell didn't really...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Monia Chokri
May 27, 2010What a way to begin a long film career. Bang Bang...this baby shot me down. I'm...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Mirela Oprisor and Maria Popistasu
May 27, 2010Regardless of me never hearing about either of these actresses prior to seeing the film, Mirela...
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Kino Recites Chang-dong’s ‘Poetry’
May 27, 2010Korean dramas with an over 2 hour run time that despite winning at Cannes normally don't...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Seo Woo
May 27, 2010The South Korean actress has a very distinct sounding voice and specific look with the sort...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Rudolf Frecska
May 27, 2010I imagine it may have been easier as a first acting role to remain chilled, and...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing David Call
May 27, 2010Paired with Brady Corbet in Alistair Banks Griffin's Two Gates of Sleep, David Call is contained...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Olga Shuvalova
May 27, 2010In a film where there are so many oddball characters that it's difficult to just mention...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Ana Girardot
May 27, 2010Among the huge line-up of young actors starring in Fabrice Gobert's Simon Werner a disparu... (a.k.a:...
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Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Jack Gleeson and Imogen Jones
May 27, 2010It may still be too soon to tell where they'll be headed in their respective acting...
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Cannes 2010: Interview with Writer/Director Alicia Duffy (All Good Children)
May 26, 2010Meant to offer reprieve from the loss of their mother, a summer vacation in the French...
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Cannes Video: Lodge Kerrigan’s Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
May 26, 2010By offering three films in one, Lodge Kerrigan definitely challenges the biopic format - challenges it...
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Cannes Video: Alicia Duffy’s All Good Children
May 26, 2010My guess is that All Good Children will have a long film festival circuit life -...
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Cannes 2011: 20 Predictions for Next Year’s Festival
May 24, 2010If the Main Competition suffered because of the lack of film output from last year (Venice...
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Cannes 2010: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Claims Palme d’Or
May 23, 2010In a weak competition year such as this one, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee claiming the Palme...
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Cannes 2010: Xavier Beauvois’ Des hommes et des dieux wins Grand Prix
May 23, 2010Xavier Beauvois captures the dramatic tensions with a lucidity that matches the tempo you'd find in...
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Cannes 2010: Chad’s Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Wins Jury Prize
May 23, 2010Ask me before the festival started what I thought the chances of a film from Chad...
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Cannes 2010: Best Director Surprise Win for Mathieu Amalric
May 23, 2010I guess the merging styles and a willingness to test the boundaries of a conventional narrative...
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Cannes 2010: Award Predictions
May 23, 2010With less than an hour to go, here are my predictions for tonight's big winners.
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Cannes Video Day 7: Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine
May 21, 2010After making a huge splash at Sundance, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine made a stop at Cannes...
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Cannes Video Day 7: Alistair Banks Griffin’s Two Gates of Sleep Part II
May 21, 2010If you're a director showing a film in the Quinzaine, a.k.a the Director's Fortnight, you begin...
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Interview: Monica Lairana – Director of Rosa (Short Film Competition)
May 21, 2010Rosa is a woman who is about 58 years-old that once had a family, husband, kids...
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Cannes Video Day 7: Alistair Banks Griffin’s Two Gates of Sleep
May 20, 2010Bressonian in approach and Malick-like in its use of the natural surroundings, Alistair Banks Griffin's Two...
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Cannes Video Day 7: Jean Paul Civeyrac’s Des filles en noir
May 19, 2010My first thoughts after seeing Jean Paul Civeyrac's Des filles en noir is that you'd never...
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DVD Review: Doctor Zhivago’s 45th Anniversary Blu-ray
May 18, 2010Zhivago is the type of film that most put on their “List” of films to see...
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Cannes 2010 Interview: Felipe Braganca – Director’s Fortnight’s A Alegria (The Joy)
May 18, 2010The group of leading role actors is mostly non-actors chosen after one year of research and...
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Cannes Video Day 6: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful
May 18, 2010Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful was perhaps the most anticipated film from the main competition this year,...
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Disc Reviews
Doctor Zhivago’s 45th Anniversary Blu-ray | DVD Review
May 18, 2010Zhivago is the type of film that most put on their “List” of films to see...
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Cannes Video Day 5: Gustavo Hernandez’s La Casa Muda
May 17, 2010This is for those who thought Paranormal Activity was the sh*t. Take note of Gustavo Hernández's...
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Cannes 2010 Interview: Cavi Borges – Critic’s Week Short: A Distração de Ivan
May 17, 2010Everyone in the movie is from the Nos do Morro Group, a 20 years old acting...
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Cannes Video Day 4: Cam Archer’s Shit Year
May 16, 2010We've been talking about this one for so long, glad to have finally seen Cam Archer's...
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Cannes Video Day 4: Xavier Dolan’s Les Amours imaginaires
May 16, 2010It was a two for two kind of day yesterday. I was there on opening night...
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Cannes Video Day 4: Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay)
May 15, 2010My thinking is that there is a nice future ahead for this edgy, auteur, little Mexican...