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• An Education: Take 2

  
  Buzzine — Authority: 140
  [Note: I try to avoid spoilers at all costs, but there’s no way for me to discuss this film substantively without them. You are warned.] I once wrote Steven Spielberg never creates an interesting moral dilemma that a boy in a helicopter can’t fly his way out of. I feel the same way about Lone Scherfig’s An ...
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• SLIFF 2009 Review: AN EDUCATION

  
  We Are Movie Geeks — Authority: 570
  I’ve suffered through so many wretched ‘coming of age’ teenage memory movies, especially in recent years, that when a gem like AN EDUCATION pops up it’s cause for celebration. Superbly written by Nick Hornby, AN EDUCATION will be best remembered for its ‘Star is Born’ performance by a young actress named ...
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• Carey Mulligan Coming Into Her Own

  
  Socialite Life — Authority: 162
  Carey Mulligan is not just Shia Leboufs girlfriend, shes an up and coming star with explosive reviews for her performance in An Education and a role in the blockbuster caliber film Wall Street 2. ...read full story
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• British Independent Film Awards – Our Take

  
  Little White Lies Blog — Authority: 129
  So the nominations are in for the BIFAs , one of the few awards ceremonies that we’re vaguely okay with. And because the world has been waiting with bated breath, here’s our run down of the lucky nominees… Best British Independent Film An Education Fish Tank In The Loop Moon Nowhere Boy Should win: ...
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• What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 736
  Today at Flavorpill, we ate some really tasty Lego sushi. We were happy to hear that the Getty Institute will work with Egypt to help conserve and manage the tomb of Tutankhamen — we still need to see him! We discovered the flu shot finder, which will make our moms happy. We watched a man [...]Related posts: ...
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• Links!

  
  Dirty Tackle — Authority: 611
  All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle… ’80s Totti needs to be real. [ ONTD ] Florentino Perez is already making excuses for this season. [ FourFourTwo ] Iker Casillas is a matchmaker. [ Kickette ] Newcastle fans are trying to buy their club to avoid ...
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• 4th & Short: 11/08/09

  
  Punch Drunk Critics — Authority: 141
  Im still a little worn out from my hike up at Shenandoah national park yesterday, so rather than ramble on too much here Ill just encourage you all to follow the Punch Drunk Critics on Twitter. You can follow yours truly at twitter.com/punchycritic, John at twitter.com/punchdrunkjohn, and anime expert Shevonne at ...
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• Good Education

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 547
  Stuck somewhere between adolescence and adulthood exist young people hoping to burst out and meet the world.  The scope of their desires live in places that they are certain will be found far beyond their backyards and bedrooms.  There are cities to be visited; friends to be met; love to be made.  Try to discourage ...
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• Juliet, Naked (#27)

  
  Whine & Cheese — Authority: 114
  Alas, we have finally arrived at a book that I read so recently that I kinda sorta remember it!  I guess one of the good parts of having such a delay between reading a book and writing about it is that I could see how much of an impact it left one me, but since my brain is still clogged with 1980s trivia there is not ...
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• An Education – A Film Review

  
  No Ordinary Fool — Authority: 126
  In some ways, this film is a victory for style over substance. A quintessential coming-of-age drama where a smart, pretty, and articulate schoolgirl becomes romantically involved with an older man, An Education also looks to capture London in the swinging sixties. as well as that sense of a generational change in ...
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• Review: An Education - A grown up film about growing up

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 493
  Based on journalist’s Lynn Barber’s memoirs and adapted by the unlikely choice of bloke-lit author Nick Hornby, An Education tells the story of Jenny, a bright but sheltered teenager in 1960s London who questions her future of studying and university when she meets dashing older man David. Director Lone Scherfig, ...
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• Book Review: Not A Star by Nick Hornby

  
  1800blogger — Authority: 167
  Submitted by The Thin Red LineIt is difficult with a straight face to recommend that anyone go out and buy a 72 page paperback book for 12 bucks. While I am not in any way opposed to short stories or novellas, and even once recommended a volume of Flash Fiction, [...]
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• Blazin’ Review: An Education

  
  Movieblaze — Authority: 120
  Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Olivia WIlliams, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina Director: Lone Scherfig Writer(s): Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber Cinematography: John De Borman Original Score: Paul Englishby Running Time: 95 Mins. Upon watching An Education throughout ...
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• An Education

  
  Punch Drunk Critics — Authority: 141
  Writer Nick Hornby is generally known as a novelist who writes books about men. His three most famous books have all been turned into amazing movies: High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Fever Pitch. All of them deal with our many obsessions and infatuations especially with ex-lovers. An Education deals with a young girl ...
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• Art issue

  
  Disambiguation — Authority: 126
  The Believer s Art Issue is out! Michael Paul Mason on an art-world darling—who went on to sell doughnuts at Krispy Kreme ... The grandson of Charles and Ray Eames constructs an alternate universe ... This comics-heavy issue also features Jeff Chang on Morrie Turner (the first nationally syndicated African ...
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• In Recognition Of Halloween…

  
  Wings For Wheels — Authority: 112
  …Jason, Jeff and I get seasonal on the new episode of the Popdose Podcast , talking about our childhood fears, which, as it turns out, aren’t nearly as disturbing as some of the things we’re capable of saying as adults. Admittedly, this one was entirely my fault. I also put another installment of Infinite ...
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• The List! 10/30/09

  
  Punch Drunk Critics — Authority: 141
  A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by the Washington Posts Jen Chaney on the phenomenon that was Paranormal Activity. I had mentioned how the Demand It option was a game changer, because it put control of a films release in the hands of the public. As is usually the case, when asked about other movies that I ...
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• An Education

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 478
  Part of the charm of "An Education," a bittersweet coming of age story based on a brief memoir by Lynn Barber, is how much we know what its main character does not. Jenny (an incandescent Carey Mulligan) is a teenager...
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• Interview: Lone Scherfig of An Education

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 478
  Danish director Lone Scherfig ("Italian for Beginners") has garnered a lot of attention for her first English language film, "An Education." It is the story of a young woman impatient to be independent and sophisticated, and what happens when she...
  2 weeks ago

• Im good at colouring in

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Nick Hornby on scripting Lynn Barbers memoir of 60s London, An Education Michael Hann Lynn Barber
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