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A Post-Mortem on the Oscar Nominations
Brad Pitt in Moneyball. Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon © 2011 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. Call me a cynic, but I couldn’t help viewing yesterday’s press conference by the Academy of Motion...
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The Never-Ending Tussle Between Box Office Hits and Award Winners
Jean Dujardin and Missi Pyle in Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist. Photo by: The Weinstein Company. While writing Wednesday’s post, I got into an argument with my editor about The Artist. I wanted to...
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Which is the Fairest Snow White of Them All?
Julia Roberts and Lily Collins star in Relativity Media's Mirror Mirror. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs. © 2012 Relativity Media. All Rights Reserved. For 60 years, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven...
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Forget the Artist, the Restoration of Napoleon is the Silent Film Event of...
Albert Dieudonné in the title role of Abel Gance’s epic Napoleon. Photo courtesy of Photoplay Productions. Some tickets are still available for what is lining up to be a major event for film buffs:...
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When Humans Are the Prey: 5 Movies That Came Before The Hunger Games
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. Photo credit: Murray Close. If you’ve somehow avoided the marketing juggernaut behind The Hunger Games, the film version of Suzanne Collins’...
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Quick Takes: Titanic, Rear Window, Orphan Films and A Trip to the Moon Redux
Captain Edward Smith purportedly on the Titanic, but actually filmed a year earlier aboard the Olympic. Courtesy Luke McKernan. April 15 marks the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, a milestone...
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From Summer Blockbusters to Orphan Films
Javier Núñez Florián, Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre in Una Noche. Credit: Trevor Forest and Shlomo Godder. As I wrote earlier, the Tribeca Film Festival ends this weekend with a screening of The...
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Why Hollywood Loves Comic Books
L to R: Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Captain America (Chris Evans) & Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) Photo: Zade Rosenthal © 2011 MVLFFLLC. TM & © 2011 Marvel. All Rights Reserved. The...
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Summer Movie Forecast: More of the Same
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones star in Men in Black 3. Photo: Wilson Webb. © 2012 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Memorial Day weekend used to mark the start of the summer...
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Beyond Kung Fu: 5 Movies From Asia to Catch
Joe Odagiri, Koki Maeda, Nene Ohtsuka, Ohshiro Maeda in I Wish, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. News last week that Wanda, a real estate company based in China,...
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