Sundance audiences are notorious for their optimism, embracing mediocre indies that quickly flop in the real world. But occasionally, festival fans get it exactly right, shining the spotlight on small, special films that need the extra boost. Last year's recipient of those well-earned accolades was "Precious." This year, it's Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right."
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Kids across America are hiking, boating, practicing archery and doing arts and crafts today, as they're well into their second week of summer camp. I never went to overnight camp, so all I know of it is what I've seen in the movies: Meatballs, Friday the 13th, The Parent Trap, Little Darlings, Sleepaway Camp, Addams Family Values, Ernest Goes to Camp. These and more showed me what I was missing a
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One of enduring pleasures of the movies is that they're a place to gaze at people who are larger and more beautiful than real life. And while there's always been artifice involved in maintaining that illusion, has technology -- HD, digital effects, and, for that matter, more prevalent plastic surgery -- changed the degree to which that's the case?
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Chaplin may have enjoyed being regarded as the premier film artiste and the silent era's great artist for much of the 20th century, but everyone knows by now that he was a winkingly clever, crass, desperate populist compared to Buster Keaton. Though only moderately successful in his heyday, and ruined with the coming of sound, Keaton has emerged unchallenged as the greatest American filmmaker tha
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Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.” The deal was negotiated between Strand’s Jon Gerrans and Michael Weber of “Boonmee” sales agent The Match Factory.
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Fatal Deviation is an ancient curse on the Irish people, passed on by a few VHS tapes like cinematic herpes until DVD technology re-released it on the world in exactly the same way archaeological digs re-release angry mummies.
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I love to go to Independent Films. Most of these films will have actors and actresses step out of their normal type casting, and into a whole new world. I was hoping to see this in the movie “Cyrus”. I was very satisfied to see that the Duplass Brothers film will change your perception of an actor for the better.
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Moscow's 2010 International Film Festival Breaks Down Borders - The 32nd Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) wrapped up last week, attracting throngs of movie-loving Muscovites to theatres around the sprawling city to take in a sampling of the...
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