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Obviously, we won't know till we see the films. But last year I predicted Amour's victory based on the likely preferences of the jury,...

The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and...

Writer and director Asghar Farhadi had a couple award winning films to his name prior to 2011, but nothing of the notoriety that came...

We Laurent Cantet's Foxfire pegged for TIFF, Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are slotted for Sundance 2013 and Under the Rainbow being an...

The title of the film is taken from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called “Spring and Fall,” wherein the poem’s narrator addresses a young girl named Margaret. The narrator instructs the young woman, “Ah as the heart grows older/It will come to sights much colder….It is the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for.” And so it is Lisa who begins to learn that she’s not grieving for the dead woman or even fighting for justice. Instead, she’s mourning for her own loss of ideals, her own dissipation of youth and ignorance. A complicated, thoroughly impressive film with some excellent dialogue, it’s also a nostalgic time capsule of both New York and its actors from a few years ago, filmed in 2005. Since then, all our hearts have grown older.