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BAMcinématek’s Post-Punk Auteur: The Films Of Olivier Assayas (Oct. 9-28)

October 11, 2010 6:03 pm

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (or BAM, if you prefer its punchier moniker) have titled their Olivier Assayas retrospective "Post-Punk Auteur." The musical connotations of that label slightly undersell the filmm...

Poster, Trailer & Images From Short Film, ‘Steve’ Starring Colin Firth & Keira Knightley

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October 11, 2010 2:34 pm

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Colin Firth has always been a good actor — even in bad films, like Michael Winterbottom's still-unreleased-stateside "Summer in Genoa"—but thanks to a major role in the blockbuster screen adaptation of "Mamma M...

‘Burlesque’ Soundtrack Is All Cher & Christina, And Kristin Bell Too

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October 11, 2010 1:45 pm

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Surprise of the century: The "Burlesque" soundtrack has a ton of tunes from Christina Aguilera and Cher, its two stars. (Plus one for co-star Kristin Bell.) If you've somehow managed to dodge reports on this mo...

TIFF ’10 Capsules: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Boxing Gym’ & Another Take On Lee Chang-dong’ ‘Poetry’

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September 28, 2010 7:37 pm

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"Boxing Gym" (Frederick Wiseman)What Frederick Wiseman is doing barely constitutes as documentary filmmaking anymore — there's no talking heads, no narration, all sound is diegetic, and only bare bones context ...

TIFF ’10 Review: ‘John Carpenter’s The Ward’ Is Amateur Nancy Drew

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September 27, 2010 7:06 pm

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Earlier today we suggested that our TIFF 2010 coverage was over. Oops, we lied....Poor John Carpenter. The one-time maestro of malevolence cooks up his first feature-length fright flick in a decade and ends up...

TIFF ’10 Review: Tetsuya Nakashima’s ‘Confessions’ Is Utter Dreck

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September 27, 2010 6:31 pm

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Earlier today we sort of suggested that our TIFF 2010 coverage was over. Oops, we lied....Tetsuya Nakashima's "Confessions" is a wrongheaded morality-play. It's being billed as a revenge flick, but the cruelty ...

TIFF ’10 Review: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Is Intimate, But Cliched; Ultimately A Middling Effort

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September 13, 2010 3:21 pm

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Just as Woody Allen keeps depressingly reiterating his desire to leave behind a legacy of quantity over quality, America's other favorite Great Director, Clint Eastwood, now also seems intent on putting out as ...

Updated: ‘I’ll Show You That Starry, Starry Sky’: R.I.P. Satoshi Kon (1963-2010)

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August 25, 2010 2:59 pm

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Yesterday afternoon, reports began trickling in via Twitter that Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon passed away. To some of us—those in a kind of reflexive denial from the shaky credibility of news stories sur...

Interview: ‘Dogtooth’ Director Yorgos Lanthimos Talks The End Of Family, Sci-Fi Connections & Not Setting Out To Make Provocative Films

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June 23, 2010 7:11 pm

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Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos made his debut, "Kinetta," back in 2005, but it wasn't until his second feature, "Dogtooth," that he earned attention on the international circuit. The lion's share of that atte...

There Will Be Blood: Kino Drops Trailer For Provocative Greek Stunner ‘Dogtooth’

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June 9, 2010 2:11 pm

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Though it's not usually a good idea to encourage you stop reading this early on, having already seen Yorgos Lanthimos's provocative film, "Dogtooth," we think you would be better off going in blind.Not that the...

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