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This month, the Los
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“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's A-lis
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Perhaps more than any other male American star of his generation, Ben Affleck understands the narrative advantage of having Hollywood on your side. The Good Will Hun
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When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there's nothing left to cut — and now
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1980. Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular city, a romantic celebration of its timeless urban lands
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A mash-up of cinema and journalism, document and performance; a concert film sandwiched between a mission statement and a staged punctuation to a career: the LCD S
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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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A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence—when bodies and identities are still fluid—Tomboy astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being
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Oddly, for a movie whose greatest achievement is its artfully composed establishing shots, The Road to Freedom seems to have been created by people with no understan
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Avatar leads the Best Picture category
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Every Sunday afternoon, Marjorie Eliot hosts a jazz concert in her Harlem living room. Strangers file in, fill up a few dozen folding chairs, and sit under dim blue
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Is it too bright for you?” Michael Mann asks as I take the seat across from him in his Santa Monica office, the late-afternoon sun streaming in through the wall-to
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