Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and wondering how the he
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The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have loved every one of Coppo
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The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling's chiseled abdomen — surely one of the more salable commodities in movies today — and heavy
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The oft-maligned genre of science fiction could be divided into the pre- and post-2001: A Space Odyssey eras — a take confirmed by LACMA's “Beyond the In
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“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So goes the adage from John Ford's 1962 classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Val
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Within the pantheon of idiosyncratic American film artists, Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) was — and in many ways still is — unusually successful at capturing the pub
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There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master, which leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer-director P
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See also:
*Innocence of Muslims: Gadfly John Walsh Warned Us of June 30 Hollywood Screening.
Yesterday we asked if the person or people behind the incendiary film In
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See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including:
*Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis
*Threesomes at the Fest, Including James Franco + Vanessa Hudgens
*Joaquin Phoenix
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The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of th
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See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including:
*Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis
*Joaquin Phoenix in P.T. Anderson's The Master
This is a blog post about two mo
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Calling back many of the same characters and more than a few of the same jokes, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy's fourth film as writer-director, is a sequel to
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