The Cinema Eye Honors, the premier international documentary awards, announced their nominees in London night. Multiple nods for “Senna,” “The Interrupters” and “Project Nim” were predictable — a nod for “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” less so.
Cinema Eye Honors nominees include 'Senna,' 'Project Nim' … and Justin Bieber
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 pm · October 26th, 2011
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London: Foreign Oscar hopefuls 'Beauty' and 'Volcano'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:02 am · October 26th, 2011
In our latest dispatch from the London Film Festival, we review two very different, but equally moving, submissions for the foreign-language Oscar: South African gay drama “Beauty” and Icelandic old-age study “Volcano.”
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David Letterman talks hosting the Oscars with Eddie Murphy
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:16 am · October 26th, 2011
Eddie Murphy has, of course, been fielding questions about his upcoming Oscar hosting gig on the press trail for “Tower Heist.” He recently stopped by David Letterman, who has his own experiences hosting the show.
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Wim Wenders brings 'Pina' to three-dimensional life in the trailer for his German Oscar entry
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:11 am · October 26th, 2011
Wim Wenders’s “Pina” is set for a December 23 qualifying release in New York as it is the German Oscar entry this year. IFC Films has offered up the final trailer.
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Oscarweb Round-up: 'Shame' lands the expected NC-17
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:05 am · October 26th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Steve McQueen’s “Shame” receives the NC-17 rating we were expecting, Rodrigo Garcia talks “Albert Nobbs” and Alex Baldwin launches a new podcast.
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John Hawkes sings 'Marcy's Song' from 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:34 pm · October 25th, 2011
Watching “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” I was stopped dead midway through the film by John Hawkes’s eerie, melancholy performance of Jackson C. Frank’s “Marcy’s Song” — now check out a new video of his version.
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Almodóvar's film selections for AFI Fest revealed
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:09 pm · October 25th, 2011
AFI Fest has announced Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar’s selections for a sidebar program. Films include “Le Cercle Rouge,” “Eyes without a Face” and the director’s own “Law of Desire.”
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The Lists: Top 10 scary PG-rated films
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:31 am · October 25th, 2011
Where most Halloween-themed film lists are dominated by grisly R-rated fare, it’s worth remembering that it’s not only adults who like being spooked in the cinema. Today’s list rounds up ten frightening films — not all of them thrillers, not all of kid-tailored — that children are free to watch, ranging from “The Witches” to “Watership Down.”
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A 'Drive' poster that makes sense
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:14 am · October 25th, 2011
A privately-made poster for Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” manages to capture the film better than anything FilmDistrict put out on it.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Protesting 'Anonymous'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:45 am · October 25th, 2011
In today’s round-up, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is protesting “Anonymous” in a curious fashion, Steve Jobs is on a list of potential writers of a Steve Jobs biopic and “The Artist” takes yet another audience award.
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'Harry Potter,' George Clooney, Michelle Williams honored with Hollywood Film Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:02 pm · October 24th, 2011
The Hollywood Film awards were held tonight, marking the first awards ceremony of the season. All honorees were previously announced. George Clooney and Michelle Williams won top acting honors while the public-voted Hollywood Movie Award went to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
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Oscarweb Round-up: The discreet charm of the writers' branch
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:32 am · October 24th, 2011
Today’s must-read piece comes from that most reliable source of must-read pieces, Mark Harris, who this time digs deep into the whats, hows and whys of Oscar’s screenplay awards. As he so snappily puts it, the Academy’s writers’ branch has “much the same taste as Academy members overall — only better.” It’s certainly the area where […]
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Hans Zimmer bows out of this year's Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:56 am · October 23rd, 2011
Nine-time Oscar nominee Hans Zimmer has opted to sit out this year’s Best Original Score race by refusing to personally enter any of his 2011 scores for consideration — including “Rango” and “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”
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Review: The beautiful losers of 'Bombay Beach'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:25 am · October 23rd, 2011
It’s been four months since I saw Alma Har’el’s alternately upsetting and joyful hybrid documentary “Bombay Beach,” but sounds and images from the film haunt me still.
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Cinejabber: The 2011 gems under your nose
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:40 am · October 22nd, 2011
Welcome to Cinejabber, your weekend soapbox space to discuss whatever’s on your mind, cinematically speaking. On mine: two wonderful films currently on US release, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Weekend.”
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Alexandre Desplat tapped for 'Extremely Loud'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:47 pm · October 21st, 2011
Alexandre Desplat is one of the hardest working quality composers in the industry. And he’s just been announced as “quietly” working on the score for one of the season’s most anticipated contenders: Stephen Daldry’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
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Searchlight on taking the 'Shame' out of NC-17
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:14 pm · October 21st, 2011
With Fox Searchlight boldly announcing plans for a full-scale Oscar campaign for Steve McQueen’s sexually explicit (and presumably NC-17 rated) “Shame,” we wonder what this could mean both for the film and the future.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 66 — Gotham Awards, NYFCC's FIRST! move, 'Tintin,' London fest and more
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:00 am · October 21st, 2011
In this week’s Oscar Talk podcast Anne and Kris are joined by Guy Lodge from London, who is taking in the London Film Festival and saw Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” recently. We also dig in on the Gotham Award nominations announcement and the NYFCC’s recent surprising twist on the season.
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