Plus: Best Art Direction becomes Best Production Design.
Academy changes original song rules again
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:02 pm · August 30th, 2012
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'Frances Ha,' 'Hyde Park on Hudson' and more set for 39th Telluride Film Festival
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:47 am · August 30th, 2012
I’ve just landed at the airport and gotten a look at the fresh-off-the-presses release announcing the line-up for the 39th annual Telluride Film Festival. As I await the shuttle into Telluride for my fourth-straight SHOW, and as many of my Los Angeles brethren board the charter flight into Montrose here, let’s dig in and see what’s in store.
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A look ahead to the rest of the Venice Film Festival
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:18 pm · August 29th, 2012
The fest kicked off today with ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist,’ but what’s coming up?
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More on the four GKIDS animated feature qualifiers
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:17 pm · August 29th, 2012
‘From Up on Poppy Hill,’ ‘Le Tableau,’ ‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ and ‘Zarafa’ officially join the race.
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Review: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' weighed down with all-caps ambiguity
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:10 am · August 29th, 2012
Director Mira Nair’s touch is still AWOL in thoughtful but drab Venice opener.
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Toronto festival audiences to see a different cut of Walter Salles's 'On the Road'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:24 pm · August 28th, 2012
Despite mixed reaction at Cannes, one of the films I’ve been most looking forward to all year has been Walter Salles’s “On the Road.” It’s set to play Toronto next month, and I have heard that Tom Luddy — one of the Telluride Film Festival programmers — is high on the film, so it could pop up there (fingers crossed). But as it turns out, it won’t be the version seen on the Croisette in May.
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Baumbach, Chase, De Palma, Kiarostami and Zemeckis set for NYFF programs
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:24 pm · August 27th, 2012
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today a bunch more goodies for the upcoming 50th annual New York Film Festival.
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Tom Holland, 16-year-old star of 'The Impossible,' joins the Best Actor race
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:13 pm · August 27th, 2012
We’ve seen it time and again. Young performers like Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”), Mary Badham (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) and Tatum O’Neal (“Paper Moon”), though largely considered leads in their films, are campaigned in the supporting ranks. But in the case of young Tom Holland in Juan Antonio Bayona’s “The Impossible”: not so fast.
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Off the Carpet: Getting out the vote
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:20 am · August 27th, 2012
That’s what’s so great about movies, books, paintings, songs, etc. They are as much a direct reflection of the times as they are a nebulous Rorschach for them. Involuntary extrapolation can be as significant as clear-eyed reaction to a straight-forward treatise. And in an environment as heated, tense and divided as this, the art that escapes the cauldron is bound to be, if not willfully profound, then a fascinating looking glass, at the very least.
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Sony Classics picks up Redford's 'The Company You Keep'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:43 am · August 24th, 2012
Sony Pictures Classics has quite a few irons in the fire this season, as usual. There is the Cannes trio of Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” Jacques Audiard’s “Rust and Bone” and Pablo Larraín. There is the recently acquired “At Any Price” from Ramin Bahrani. There are Sundance hits “Smashed,” from James Ponsoldt, and “West of Memphis,” from Amy Berg. And now, there is Robert Redford.
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Cambodia joins the foreign Oscar race… but what of 'Amour?'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:55 am · August 24th, 2012
Meanwhile, Germany, Mexico and Israel announce shortlists
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Matt Damon and John Krasinski join the season in Gus Van Sant's 'Promised Land'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:02 pm · August 23rd, 2012
Alright, make some room. Another potential Oscar play has joined the party.
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'Frankenweenie' to open 56th BFI London Film Festival
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:36 am · August 23rd, 2012
Tim Burton’s animated feature will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in September.
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Daniel Day-Lewis does some serious thinking in the first poster for 'Lincoln'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:30 am · August 22nd, 2012
Steven Spielberg’s biopic hits theaters November 9.
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The Lists: Top 10 performances in David Cronenberg films
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:52 am · August 21st, 2012
As ‘Cosmopolis’ goes wide on Friday, we round up Cronenberg’s best thesps
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NYFF adds tributes to the program for the first time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:41 am · August 21st, 2012
This year’s New York Film Festival just keeps expanding. Yesterday it was revealed that anniversary screenings of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Lawrence of Arabia” and “The Princess Bride” would be on the docket for the 50th annual, and today, it’s been revealed that, like Telluride and AFI Fest, NYFF has added a tribute element to its proceedings.
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With 'The Impossible' and 'Perks,' Summit has a one-two awards season punch
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:15 am · August 21st, 2012
Bayona and Chbosky bring exciting visions to two completely different stories.
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Casting Society of America announces its 2011/12 award nominees
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:24 am · August 21st, 2012
‘The Artist,’ ‘Drive’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ are among those up for Outstanding Casting honors.
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