Jaw-dropping news came down around noon Park City time Monday, when Sundance issued a press release confirming that Bingham Ray — indie film legend, co-founder
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The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), which opens tonight with the L.A. premiere of Lisa Cholodenko's KCRW-crowd-pleasing gay-marriage rom-dramedy The Kids
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“I have nothing against the word exploitation.” If anyone can claim ownership of the idea of fast, cheap, freewheeling filmmaking, it's Roger Corman.
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More zombies: Read GENDY ALIMURUNG's “This Zombie Moment: Hunting for What Lies Beneath the Zombie Zeitgeist,” STEVEN MIKULAN's “I Rode W
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I was 16 in 1976 when I attended Manny Farber’s lecture on Fassbinder’s Effi Briest, at a community college in Costa Mesa. The lecture was incomplete, a shambles
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Forty years ago this week, the Cannes Film Festival ground to a halt. At an impromptu press conference held on the morning of May 18, 1968 — nine days into the fe
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The ripples of unease that emanate from the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke have been spreading ever wider for well over a decade now. Last year, Haneke rea
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Lending a winning imprimatur to Asia Argento’s bloated adaptation of JT LeRoy’s novel The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, French director Gaspar Noé — a
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You can’t exactly ignore the central device of the CBS sitcom
How I Met Your Mother: It kicks off each show. We see a couple of bored-looking
kids from the yea
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Photos by Saeed Adyani
The word “homage” is hardly ever used
these days without a sneer. We infer pretension, thinly disguised plagiarism,
lack of
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Takeshi Kitano may be the most recognizable person in Japan, but almost nobody in the United States has ever laid eyes on him. A pop Renaissance man, Kitano is a ub
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Early on in the Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke, a monk soaked in street-hustler wiliness admonishes the young warrior Ashitaka with the observation that &#
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