With 'Stoker' on the way, 10 great English-language debuts by foreign directors

Posted by · 8:49 am · February 27th, 2013

From F.W. Murnau to Alfonso CuarĂ³n, these directors didn’t get lost in translation.

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On Kristen Stewart and stripping away the tabloid persona

Posted by · 8:29 am · September 11th, 2012

People put their best face on in this game so you’re always going to be charmed, seduced, wooed by the “please like me” thing of it all. But Stewart is a very normal girl in the throes of very abnormal circumstances. And her “best face” is difficult to manage.

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Toronto festival audiences to see a different cut of Walter Salles's 'On the Road'

Posted by · 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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Review: 'On the Road' sticks to the map

Posted by · 7:15 pm · May 23rd, 2012

The film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel has been in the works since 1968 — and isn’t quite worth the wait.

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Cannes Check: Walter Salles's 'On the Road'

Posted by · 3:54 am · May 14th, 2012

We continue our preview of the Cannes competition with the long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel.

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IFC Films and Sundance Selects ready 'On the Road' for the journey

Posted by · 3:55 pm · May 10th, 2012

Ahead of its Cannes premiere, the long-awaited screen adaptation of ‘On the Road’ has found US distribution with IFC and Sundance Selects.

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Cannes lineup heavy on U.S. fare as Twi-hards prepare to mob fest

Posted by · 2:39 am · April 19th, 2012

Amid the usual Cannes elite like Michael Haneke and Ken Loach, Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart are also set to hit the Croisette with new films in Competition.

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