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Film Movement Gives Undiscovered TIFF Gem ‘Alamar’ a New Home
February 5, 2010There were a couple of little birdies at last year's TIFF that told me about a...
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Dogtooth’s Yorgos Lanthimos Climbs to Summit of the ‘Alpis’
February 4, 2010My big discovery of 2009 in terms of an emerging new talent haphazardly occurred during the...
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Universal’s Catch of the Day: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s ‘Catfish’
February 4, 2010I hate that nagging feeling of having attended a film festival and having missed out on...
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Anchor Bay Sees Life ‘After.Life’
February 4, 2010Selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo will get to see her...
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Terrence Malick on a Roll! Bale, Bardem, McAdams and Kurylenko Joins Fall Set Production
February 4, 2010The trades report that he'll be re-teaming with The New World's Christian Bale, Rachel McAdams who...
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More Swank for Fox Searchlight: Betty Ann Waters is Oscar Bait for 2011?
February 4, 2010The Fox Searchlight titled tanked at the B.O., but an important lesson was learnt - the...
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NeoClassics Meddles in L’Affaire Farewell
February 3, 2010NeoClassics Films has acquired the rights to a political thriller that if marketed right, could be...
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Roadside Makes Quick ‘Ca$h’ Grab with Indie Thriller Title
February 3, 2010Before signing up on Star Trek and the forthcoming Thor, Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth took on...
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SPC Goes Dutch with ‘Winter in Wartime’
February 3, 2010With the 4.4 million dollar haul Black Book (Zwartboek) made back in 2006, Sony Pictures Classics...
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Jill Sprecher Convinces Kinnear, Arkin and Crudup for ‘The Convincer’
February 3, 2010Scripted by the "Coen-sisters", Jill and Karen Sprecher (sister and creative partner), The Convincer will feature...
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2010 Oscar Noms: Apologies to Michael Stuhlbarg, Bright Star, Fantastic Mr.Fox and Tilda
February 2, 2010The noms are in folks (see full list below) and apart from the love that The...
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DVD Review: Triangle (Blu-ray)
February 2, 2010A tight pshychological thriller whose only problem, if you can call it that, may be that...
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Triangle (Blu-ray) | DVD Review
February 2, 2010A tight pshychological thriller whose only problem, if you can call it that, may be that...
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Phase 4 Grab ‘Freebie’ from Sundance
February 1, 2010The most promising item from Sundance's NEXT section in terms of commercial prospects has been picked...
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World Film Report: Iceland (January 2010)
February 1, 2010Mr. Bjarnfredarson, the darkly comic culmination of Iceland's most popular TV series, The Night Shift, The...
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Tracking Shot February 2010: Bel Ami, For Ellen, I’m with Cancer and Win Win
February 1, 2010This February we are keeping tabs on So Yong Kim, Tom McCarthy and Dito Montiel who...
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Zeina Durra’s Top Ten Films of All Time
January 31, 2010Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As...
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2010 Sundance Day 4: Katie Aselton’s The Freebie
January 28, 2010The Freebie, like many films in the low-fi, no budget section works with a premise and...
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2010 Sundance Day 4: Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine
January 26, 2010A love story that explores the beginning of the beginning and the beginning of the end...
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2010 Sundance Day 3: Habib Azar’s Armless
January 26, 2010So I grabbed a midnight showing to the second official screening to Habib Azar's Armless, and...
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2010 Sundance Day 3: Alex Gibney’s Casino Jack & The United States of Money
January 25, 2010I'm dubbing Casino Jack & The United States of Money as a marathon-telethon, Jack Abramoff's track...
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2010 Sundance Day 3: Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone
January 25, 2010Responsible for putting Farmiga on the map, Granik's ode to Missouri's backwood might just do the...
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2010 Sundance Day 3: John Wells’ The Company Men
January 24, 2010While I think Wells' The Company Men will have no problems in getting picked up (it...
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Sundance 2010: Interview with Michael Mohan (One Too Many Mornings)
January 23, 2010I also made popcorn up at the Directors and Screenwriters Labs. This was probably the best...
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Sundance 2010: David Michod’s Animal Kingdom
January 23, 2010Today must have been a fairly special day for David Michod -- the filmmaker saw two...
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Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is the Most Anticipated Films of 2010!
January 22, 2010I've yet to know if this is two films (what's the deal with the IMAX rumor?)...which...
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Sundance 2010: Spencer Susser’s Hesher
January 22, 2010A downright delicious, dark film that is equal parts comedy and drama, this throws a molotov...
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Sundance 2010: Interview with Kevin Asch (Holy Rollers)
January 22, 2010I remember sitting in Danny's apartment five years ago hearing him tell this true tale and...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Abdellatif Kechiche’s Black Venus
January 22, 2010Working with probably his largest budget to date, Kechiche touches upon the immigrant narrative once again,...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist
January 22, 2010The notion of an untold Jacques Tati story finally being revealed is enough to put this...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grand Master
January 22, 2010We commenced the 00 decade with In the Mood for Love and ended with the Blueberry...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Cristi Puiu’s Aurora
January 22, 2010Puiu's examination of a broken system in Un Certain Regard Award winning The Death of Mr....
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Sundance 2010: New Frontier Artists including Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord and Ragnar Kjartansson’s The End
January 21, 2010Just before the opening press conference of the festival, the journos are invited to what has...
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Sundance 2010: Taqwacores, Mary Last Seen, Six Dollar Fifty Man
January 21, 2010Tomorrow I'll wake up early for Shorts Program II with a pair of films that have...
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Sundance 2010: Interview with Jeffrey Blitz (Lucky)
January 21, 2010Lucky is the reverse. An exploration of that other American Dream, getting something for nothing. I’m...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Coen Bros.’ True Grit
January 21, 2010You've got to hand it to them, if you reference No Country for Old Men, they...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce
January 21, 2010When the project was announced, I started thinking of the Far From Heaven melodrama type, and...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: David Fincher’s The Social Network
January 21, 2010Fincher has made us afraid of the dark (Zodiac), afraid of growing old (Button) and now,...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Julian Schnabel’s Miral
January 21, 2010I'm very curious in seeing how poeticized and politicized this picture will turn out to be....
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin
January 21, 2010Besides the fact that its been almost a decade since we last visited with the filmmaker...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Olivier Assayas’s Carlos the Jackal
January 20, 2010No one from Hollywood has managed to get the elusive Carlos jus right, I think might...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole
January 20, 2010After exploring how sexuality and gender converge in Hedwig... and Shortbus, this will be a notable...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
January 20, 2010Reichardt's modest and economical explorations of America's Western landscapes are a breath of fresh air.
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Alexander Payne’s The Descendants
January 20, 2010Payne tried on the producer's hat and thankfully he put that aside to focus on what...
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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Kornel Mundruczo’s The Frankenstein Project
January 20, 2010A discovery I made at Cannes two years back, 2008's Delta's combined sheer beauty and poetic...