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Oscars 10
The Ambivalent, Bittersweet “My Life as a Zucchini”
Michael Sicinski writes about one of the dark-horse candidates for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, "My Life as a Zucchini."
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The Short and Sweet Side of the Oscars
Dan Schindel takes a gander at this year's Oscar-nominated short films, which include several films about the Syrian refugee crisis, a 3D short reminiscent of Jean-Luc Godard, and the first VR film to be nominated for an Oscar.
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Favorites Don’t Always Win at the Oscars
The Oscars are right around the corner and it's looking like we have some surefire winners this year. La La Land has been the critical darling of 2016 and is a favorite to dominate the Academy Awards. The film is only director Damien Chazelle's third full-leng...
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Now Playing: “The Salesman”
Mallory Andrews writes about Asghar Farhadi's new, Oscar-nominated film "The Salesman" and the purpose of winning the award.
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Now Playing: “Embrace of the Serpent”
Vikram Murthi on one of this week's new films, the Colombian Oscar nominee "Embrace of the Serpent."
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On “Trumbo” And Hollywood’s Love Affair With Itself
If you’re watching the live broadcast of the Oscar nominations tomorrow morning, you are likely doing so out of hope. Or perhaps out of love. What else would inspire an otherwise-logical human to get up early--really early, at 5:30am PST, if you’re on the West...
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“Goodnight Mommy” Fails To Come Together As A Horror Film
Even though its story isn’t what the virally-spooky trailers are selling it as, this still seems like the kind of movie I should love. An austerely produced, beautifully shot dark fable about children’s resentment of their parents, it’s sound on paper. But in ...
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“Tangerines”
Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines opens in a tiny village in Eastern Europe—Abkhazia, Georgia to be exact—as a frail, old Estonian man named Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) meticulously constructs crates one slab of wood at a time. It's the early 1990s and there is a war in the...
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Opening Acts 2/25/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
The Death of Hollywood Sexy by Jen Yamato. Yamato looks at just how far ...
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How I Survived the Oscars
I enjoy a lot of things. Coffee, movies, movies about coffee (shout out to A Coffee in Berlin), long walks on the beach, etc. I do not enjoy the Oscars. Partially, it’s the pretentious hipster inside of me that’s bitter over films like Under the Skin and Nymph...
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