Kristopher Tapley

DGA rescinds long-standing 'no screeners' policy

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:55 am · May 7th, 2012

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has announced today that it will be reversing a long-standing policy outlawing the issuance of “for your consideration” screeners to its membership. The change will go into effect this awards season.

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A look at the awards success of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:23 pm · May 4th, 2012

I’ve been out all afternoon, so the sudden news of Adam Yauch — better known as MCA of The Beastie Boys — succumbing to cancer has been all Twitter remembrances and mobile news briefs for me. And all sadness. But as many movie sites have dutifully pointed out, Yauch’s creative reach was significant in the film world as well.

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Tell us what you thought of 'The Avengers'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:47 pm · May 3rd, 2012

The film opens this weekend.

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Terrence Malick's 'Tree of Life' cracks Roger Ebert's top 10 movies of all time

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:18 pm · May 2nd, 2012

The Sight & Sound poll of filmmakers and critics picking the greatest films of all time is 10 years old. Many in the cinephile community are anxious to see the result of the latest poll, which comes out later this year. Critic Roger Ebert, it turns out, chose one of last year’s top tier films to make the cut this time around.

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The Lists: Top 10 performances in comic book movies

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:44 am · May 1st, 2012

With “The Avengers” hitting theaters imminently and “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Dark Knight Rises” still to come, we look at the top portrayals of film’s comic book subgenre.

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It's official: The Dolby Theatre is the Oscars' home for the next 20 years

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:18 am · May 1st, 2012

Two new deals bring a name change and security to the annual show.

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Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' drowned out by 'OSCAR!' noise at CinemaCon

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:55 am · April 26th, 2012

Do Ang Lee and Fox have a contender? The breathless hordes seem to think so.

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Should 'The Avengers' assemble for SAG ensemble?

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:05 am · April 25th, 2012

So on one hand, yeah, the headline here is a joke. The Screen Actors Guild’s nominating committee, and indeed, any self-respecting awards-giving body is highly unlikely to pass kudos approval on a film like “The Avengers.” But in the case of a category meant to honor well-oiled machines like this one, perhaps they should.

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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' director to be honored by San Francisco fest

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:29 pm · April 19th, 2012

Sundance got the awards party started early on “Beasts of the Southern Wild” when the film won the Grand Jury prize there, but today the San Francisco Film Society announced it and director Behn Zeitlin as the recipient of its inaugural Graham Leggat Award at the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival.

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Remembering Levon Helm in 'The Right Stuff'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:26 pm · April 19th, 2012

I didn’t know until I got an AP brief yesterday that musician and actor Levon Helm was so on the ropes in his 16-year battle with throat cancer. Today, the inevitable announcement: Helm has left us. He was 71.

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Robert Pattinson leaves 'Twilight' for Cronenberg in the first 'Cosmopolis' trailer

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:03 pm · April 18th, 2012

The first trailer for David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” follow-up “Cosmopolis,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel, reveals that it is an official selection for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

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Anthony Hopkins cuts a mean profile as Alfred 'Hitchcock'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:50 pm · April 18th, 2012

Principle photography on Sacha Gervasi’s Alfred Hitchcok biopic creatively titled “Hitchcock” began last Friday in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight has released the first still of Hopkins in full Hitchcock makeup and attire.

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As the NFL schedule is announced, should the Oscars take note?

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:18 pm · April 17th, 2012

After revealing which teams would play each other in the 2012 football season a few months back, the NFL has just announced the official schedule with dates via a prime time special on the NFL Network. Should the Academy take a similar tack in revealing its annual list of Oscar nominees?

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TCM Fest: 'A Night to Remember' marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:07 am · April 15th, 2012

About the time a full crowd of TCM Classic Film Festival-goers began filling one of the smaller theaters at Mann’s Chinese multiplex this evening, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (9:20pm ET, April 14, 1912) came and went. The occasion: a screening of “A Night to Remember.”

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Official synopsis for Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' revealed

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:50 pm · April 13th, 2012

The Weinstein Company has released the official synopsis for “Django Unchained,” so if you didn’t get your hands on the highly circulated screenplay that made the rounds last year, here’s your chance to know what to expect, if you so desire.

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