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So Your Festival Darling Was Bought By Harvey Weinstein
Congrats, lucky filmmaker! Your film was purchased for a record high at a prestigious film festival, and the receipt bears the signature of none other than Harvey Weinstein. Last year at the Berlin Film Festival, Weinstein purchased the U.S. rights to The Imit...
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Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ is Visually Decadent But Narratively Patchy
The following review is an expanded version of one that ran as part of our coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where a longer cut of the film was exhibited than is being released in the United States.
While it’s not necessarily a stan...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013
If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...
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