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‘The Hurt Locker’ Takes Top Prize At Gotham Awards

December 1, 2009 1:00 pm

The 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards always kickstart awards season, and this year, they began festivities with a bang, awarding bomb-defusing suspense thriller "The Hurt Locker" with Best Feature. T...

Notes & Awards: ‘Dogtooth,’ Wins In Montreal, ‘Hurt Locker’ & ‘Big Fan’ Nom’d In Gotham

Rodrigo Perez

October 19, 2009 9:10 pm

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Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ "Dogtooth" won the $15,000 Louve D’Or prize at the 38th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema at the weekend. The disturbing, yet strangely comedic film screened at Cannes earlie...

Weekend Box Office- ‘Final Destination’ Wins Bloodbath At The B.O.

Gabe Toro

August 30, 2009 3:28 pm

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Nikki Finke quotes a studio executive talking about this weekend, where four R-rated films topped the box office, saying, "What a sad statement on movie-going humanity." Hm, is this executive at Warner Bros., ...

In Theaters: ‘Taking Woodstock,’ Halloween 2,’ ‘Big Fan’

Hunter McClamrock

August 28, 2009 1:00 pm

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Oof. the summer that could ends with a whimper. And in a summer filled with largely shitty and disappointing tent-poles, which were maligned by critics and fans alike and, despite all this, still one of the hi...

IFFBoston Review – ‘Big Fan’: A Compelling Look At Loneliness & Obsession

Rodrigo Perez

August 27, 2009 5:45 pm

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Tipping its hat to the dark, obsessive, loner milieu of the '70s, Robert Siegel's directorial debut might have strong influential echoes of "Taxi Driver," and other films like "Scarecrow," and "King of Comedy,"...

Trailer For Robert Siegel’s ‘Big Fan’ Debuts

Simon Dang

July 7, 2009 12:32 pm

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"Big Fan," the directorial debut of Robert Siegel who is perhaps better known as the scribe of Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" and former editor-in-chief of The Onion, has unveiled it's first trailer and seem...

Rob Siegel’s ‘Big Fan’ Gets Posterized; Coming To New York August 28, Rest Of U.S. … Later?

Rodrigo Perez

June 19, 2009 12:32 pm

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Here's your first look at a poster from Robert Siegel's directorial debut "Big Fan" which comes out in limited release in August (more on that in a sec). He wrote a little picture you may have heard of called, ...

First Independent Grabs Rob Siegel’s ‘Big Fan’

Rodrigo Perez

April 28, 2009 8:22 pm

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As we reported earlier in the week, Rob Siegel (screenwriter of "The Wrestler") told audiences in the "Big Fan," Q&A during the Independent Film Festival of Boston that the obsession portrait, starring Patt...

Rob Siegel’s ‘Big Fan’ Starring Patton Oswalt, Hitting Theaters In August

Rodrigo Perez

April 27, 2009 1:55 pm

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Those desperately wondering when they'll get a chance to see Rob Siegel's directorial debut, "Big Fan," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year should hang on to their pants.During a scr...

BAMcinemaFEST To Feature ‘Big Fan,’ ‘Humpday’ ‘Beeswax’ & Many More In Festival Running June 17–July 2

Rodrigo Perez

April 21, 2009 4:30 pm

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Earlier this year, we lamented the fact that Brooklyn's BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) theater would no longer be running its excellent Sundance At Bam series. For those not in New York, Sundance at BAM took p...

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