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• PSIFF10: TO DIE LIKE A MAN Review

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  "There are no secrets; only shame." --Tonia. After competing in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes , To Die Like A Man ( Morrer como um homem , 2009) had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) , and is being featured in the World Cinema Now sidebar at the 2010 Palm ...
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• PSIFF10: HUACHO review

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  As reported earlier on The Evening Class , in 2007 the Global Film Initiative provided completion funding for Chilean director Alejandro Fernández Almendras feature debut Huacho ( Facebook page, in Spanish). In 2008 Almendras won the Sundance / NHK International Filmmaker Award . Huacho sceened in ...
  5 days ago

• GEORGE CLOONEY CATCHES THE “SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS”

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 561
    Actor GEORGE CLOONEY is notorious for pulling pranks on co-workers while working on film projects but according to UP IN THE AIR director JASON REITMAN, the actor was on his best behavior while in production in St. Louis. We caught up with REITMAN recently and he talked about working with the legendary prankster ...
  6 days ago

• Magnet nabs release rights for George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 131
  A scene from Survival of the Dead Magnet Releasing, the genre division of Magnolia Pictures, recently announced that it has acquired U.S. rights to George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, the latest in the legendary and beloved cult series of zombie films, which premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals ...
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• Breaking into Hollywood - Tales from a film festival

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  I was completely disillusioned. I knew that Hollywood was infamous for its sexism; I just didn’t expect it to happen to me at a film festival in Austin, Texas. From that moment on I saw everything from a new perspective. I watched the male students in our group network with Hollywood execs while the girls stood like ...
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• All My Friends: Millennium Mambo, Take 4: Blake Williams

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Blake and I met somehow through the ol blosophere. I typically assume its related to Jacques Rivette, as most of my relationships with other like-minded film bloggers seem to stem from that (or maybe it comes later, Im not sure). Blake is a Yankee residing in Canada, where hes a grad student at the University of ...
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• NEWS: The strange health saga of French entertainment icon Johnny Hallyday

  
  HoundsTV.com — Authority: 120
  We hear the health of France’s biggest rock star is finally improving as doctors brought Johnny Hallyday out of a medically induced coma he had been in since last week. The coma was necessary due to complications the 66 year-old Hallyday was having after a botched surgery on his back this year. Even Johnny’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• PHANTOMSCHMERZ (PHANTOM PAIN, 2009): Interview With Matthias Emcke & Til Schweiger

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  San Franciscos Berlin & Beyond Film Festival would have been the venue where I imagine San Franciscans might have had the opportunity to catch Matthias Emcke s debut feature Phantomschmerz ( Phantom pain , 2009) ; but as that film festival is still reeling from internal upset and has shifted from its January ...
  2 weeks ago

• CRAB TRAP (2009): Interview With Oscar "Papeto" Ruiz Navia, Rodrigo Vélez & Arnobio Salazar Rivas

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  There is an intimate scene in Oscar Ruiz Navia s debut feature Crab Trap ( El Vuelco del Cangrejo , 2009) that reveals the true translation of the films title. Daniel, a "white" stranger, has drifted into the Afro-Colombian coastal village of La Barra in hopes of securing a boat to escape Colombia. While ...
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• UN PROPHÈTE (A PROPHET, 2009): Interview With Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Tahar Rahim

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  Since first writing up Jacques Audiard s Un Prophète ( A Prophet ) at this years Toronto International --where it arrived fresh from its Grand Prix win at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival--the film has secured numerous nominations and awards, including (most recently) the Best Actor and Best Sound Design nods at ...
  2 weeks ago

• A SINGLE MAN Review

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  The flush of desire inspired by the blush of youth has rarely been as lyrically expressed as in Tom Ford s A Single Man , elegantly adapted from the novel by Christopher Isherwood . But it isnt just the innocence of youth that momentarily reminds George Falconer ( Colin Firth ) that life is worth living and ...
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• TIFF Announces Canadas Top Ten 2009!

  
  Twitch — Authority: 664
  Every year around this time the Toronto International Film Festival announces their picks for Canadas Top Ten: A selection of what they consider to be the best ten Canadian produced shorts and features from the previous year.  And, true to form, last night was announcement time.  No big surprises, really, and no ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top Ten Canadian Films 2009

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 576
  Patricia Clarkson in Cairo Time (top); Joel Bissonnette, Adam Scott in Passenger Side (middle, upper); Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires (middle, lower); Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica by Cam Christiansen (bottom)The Toronto Film Festival has announced the lists of the top 10 Canadian features and shorts of 2009. ...
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• “UP IN THE AIR” STAR VERA FARMIGA ON BEING (LITERALLY) UP IN THE AIR

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 561
  The new film UP IN THE AIR deals with people who travel as part of their jobs and spend most of their time, well… up in the air. We spoke recently with one of the stars of the film, VERA FARMIGA, and she talked about professional travel and racking up those valuable “frequent flyer miles.” In fact, as a new ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bad Mother: A discussion with NY Times best-selling author Ayelet Waldman

  
  StarkSilverCreek - All Things West Coast — Authority: 142
  New York-times best selling author Ayelet Waldman sat down to talk with Loni about being a “bad mother,” men, her career as a former public defender and how it influences her writing.StarkSilverCreek Presents – Ayelet WaldmanDownload audio file (sscpresents-24-ayeletwaldman.mp3)Hear about the ...
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• FARMIGA GOES TOE-TO-TOE WITH CLOONEY IN “UP IN THE AIR”

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 561
  VERA FARMIGA plays leading lady to GEORGE CLOONEY’S leading man in JASON REITMAN’S new film, UP IN THE AIR. It’s a romantic dramedy that has them playing variations of the same character. As her character says to his, “Just think of me as you…with a vagina”. The pair are evenly matched in the acting ...
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• Review: Up in the Air

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 634
  Most movies exist in a sort of cultural vacuum, too addicted to rehashing genre conventions to explore the realities of the contemporary world outside the cinema’s doors. The most successful, transformative filmmakers have transcended those limitations, producing assured stylistic works that also say something about ...
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• UP IN THE AIR’S VERA FARMIGA TALKS ‘CHEMISTRY’ WITH GEORGE CLOONEY

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 561
  Getting the word that you’re going to be starring opposite one of the world’s most famous sex symbols has got to be daunting even if you are the beautiful and talented VERA FARMIGA. The actress tells us that when director JASON REITMAN gave her the lead in UP IN THE AIR, she had no idea if she and CLOONEY would ...
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• VERA FARMIGA ADMITS GETTING “UP IN THE AIR” WAS ALL ABOUT TIMING

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 561
  During our recent interview with UP IN THE AIR star VERA FARMIGA, the actress admitted that director JASON REITMAN had a tough decision in casting her in the lead opposite GEORGE CLOONEY. FARMIGA was eight months pregnant as the start date for the film approached and the prospect of having a new mom face the chores of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Black Dynamite . . . “Cracker!”

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 488
  Like a “jive turkey.”  That is how I felt in delaying over a month to screen Scott Sanders’s new 1970’s spoof blaxploitation film Black Dynamite .  For the record, waiting was one of the biggest mistakes I have made in my pop culture review career because the film was a slap jack smack clap pimp flip ...
  4 weeks ago

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