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• ‘Hurt Locker’ sweeps Chicago critics’ awards

  
  In Contention — Authority: 147
  Sorry we’re a bit late getting round to this — as you know, Kris and I are in holiday mode this week. Anyway, while the Chicago Film Critics’ Association threw some curveballs in their nominations list , their winners stuck mostly to the status quo. When the “status quo,” however, is one of my favorite ...
  10 hours ago

• MoNique No-Show Peeves Some New York Critics

  
  Carpetbagger — Authority: 645
  The star of "Precious," a big winner with the Chicago critics, wont be attending the New York Film Critics Circle award ceremony.
  1 day ago

• KATHRYN BIGELOW SEES “HURT LOCKER” AS THE “ULTIMATE CANVAS”

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 541
  The debate over wether KATHRYN BIGELOW’S Golden Globe nominated film, THE HURT LOCKER, is a “war” movie or a “thriller” didn’t do the film much good at the box office. To writer MARK BOAL, it’s an action film set against the backdrop of the conflict in Iraq but to BIGELOW it’s a war movie in the most ...
  4 days ago

• Women, Art & War: 2009

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  As this series has hopefully demonstrated, war has been and continues to be a problem that the human race faces on a global scale. It is, however, often through these unfortunately common experiences that we can reach across national, racial and religious borders and share both our past and current horrors as well as ...
  4 days ago

• NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL, THE HURT LOCKER DIVIDES AUDIENCES

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 541
  Since it’s premiere at The Toronto International Film Festival, KATHRYN BIGELOW’s THE HURT LOCKER has been a tough sell to audiences. People who see it, seem to love it but getting them in the door has been an effort. Essentially a thriller but with an Iraq War backdrop, audiences seem confused about wether the ...
  6 days ago

• "Scripts pry open hidden worlds"

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 490
  A recent piece in Variety : Some screenplays make an impression by finding drama -- or comedy, for that matter -- in the everyday, or at least something that looks like it. "Ordinary People" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" won Oscars portraying fairly familiar American middle class lives. But other scripts invite the ...
  1 week ago

• A Boom Time Party for Hurt Locker

  
  Carpetbagger — Authority: 645
  "The Hurt Locker" is officially the awards movie to beat - at least when it comes to fancy parties.
  2 weeks ago

• Kathryn Bigelows next action film - Triple Frontier

  
  Pretty/Scary — Authority: 496
  Director Kathryn Bigelow ( Near Dark , Strange Days ), hoping for an Oscar nomination for her action film The Hurt Locker this Spring 2009, has just revealed her next film, another action movie, Triple Frontier . She tells Variety that it will be "an intense ensemble piece that takes place in a region of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gotham Award Winners

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  via IndieWire : Best Feature The Hurt Locker — Kathryn Bigelow, director; Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro, producers (Summit Entertainment) Best Documentary Food, Inc. — Robert Kenner, director; Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein, producers (Magnolia Pictures) Best ...
  3 weeks ago

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