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Tense U.S. Trailer For Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Past’
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi wowed North American audiences in 2011 with his striking drama, A Separation, ultimately winning the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film and being nominated for Original Screenplay. His new film, The Past, stars Bérénice Bejo ...
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Win a Trip to the Sundance Film Festival with Snag Films!
Have you always dreamt of going to the Sundance Film Festival? Here's your chance! Snag Films, a free indie film streaming website, is offering two diehard indie film fans the opportunity of a lifetime. You could be one of the first to see some of the best Ame...
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Birthday Wishes: The Female Christopher Walken, Allison Janney
Alison Janney, born 1959, is 54 today. As the headline says, she has what Roger Ebert once referred to as the Walken Factor - she rarely plays the lead role, but is almost always one of the best, most interesting and fully realized elements in any film or tele...
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Christopher Nolan Attaches IMAX Camera to Learjet Because He Can
In badass film technology news, Christopher Nolan has taken to the skies for some kind of top secret project involving the already extremely top secret upcoming Interstellar. How badass and how top secret, you ask? Nolan has embedded an IMAX camera in the nose...
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It’s A Wonderful Life Is Getting A Sequel
You read right. Frank Capra‘s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life is getting a sequel, just short of 70 years later. Why? Couldn’t tell you.
If you ever wondered what the rest of the story was, which you probably didn’t, you can now find out in the aptly named ...
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Birthday Wishes: Owen Wilson
Happy 45th birthday to Owen Wilson, the blondest, nose-iest man in the business. The brother to Luke Wilson and former college roommate of Wes Anderson (oh, the perfectly quaint ragers they must have hosted!) has forged his own broad brand of success throughou...
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Weekend Box Office: “Best Man” And “Thor” Have Strong Showings
The weekend box office was a surprising one, but only if you predicted that a superhero movie wouldn't win against little competition, and that a film aimed at a "niche" audience wouldn't have a strong showing against it. As predicted by most, Thor: The Dark W...
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Birthday Wishes: Martin Scorsese Is 71 Today
The one and only Marty Scorsese (I can call him Marty) is 71 today. Despite being one of American cinema's most legendary directors, Scorsese didn't win a Best Director Oscar until 2006's The Departed. Some of his most acclaimed films are Taxi Driver (1976), G...
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Grantland’s Mark Harris Touches on Screenplay Category Confusion
What makes something original? Mark Harris suggests Oscar screenplay categories need tweaking.
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Birthday Wishes: Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto, born 1939, is 74 today. Though now retired from film and television, Kotto had a long and industrious career spanning four decades, culminating in a seven year stint as Lieutenant Al Giardello on the acclaimed NBC series Homicide: Life On The Str...
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