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When interviewing Kristin Scott Thomas, the woman who for many audiences represents the living portrait of English upper-crust serenity, Led Zeppelin isn’t exactly the first name you expect to crop up in the conversation. And yet, halfway through our Transatlantic chat, that is exactly what happens. “Seeing the guys, well into their sixties, just getting […]
INTERVIEW: Kristin Scott Thomas
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:03 pm · December 6th, 2008
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Thrilling Oscar nominees…when the Academy took a chance
Posted by John Foote · 8:48 am · August 11th, 2008
I love it when the Academy steps out and provides us with a genuine shock that is so richly deserved you feel like weeping for joy that they got it…they really got it. For all the ranting I do about the Academy’s lack of vision, every so often they pull something out of the air […]
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Variety ponders the season at the mid-way point
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:24 am · July 4th, 2008
We’ve already been over what a thin year it’s been so far for Oscar candidates – or good films at all, for that matter. Now Variety has come to the same conclusion. In his mid-year awards-season study, Timothy M. Gray goes so far as to say that “the past six months have offered fewer potential […]
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On the Candian cinema
Posted by John Foote · 11:18 am · June 23rd, 2008
With the recent announcement of Paul Gross’s “Passchendaele” as the opening night film at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (and honor traditionally handed to a Canadian endeavor), I thought I’d dedicate some space to the best of Canadian cinema. But first, a history of sorts. Growing up in Ontario, Canada, I fell in love […]
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