(A day later than usual — apologies.) After the London Film Festival raised its curtain last night with a typically flashy European premiere for Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go,” this morning’s papers and breakfast TV reports have been busy with chatter about what Britfilm’s two it-girls, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, were wearing; how […]
THE LONG SHOT: What becomes of the broken-hearted?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:19 pm · October 14th, 2010
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Is ‘Australia’ really in the Academy’s wheelhouse?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:55 pm · November 10th, 2008
I haven’t hidden the fact that I’m in the tank for Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia,” or at least I hope to be — when we’re eventually allowed to see it. It is, bar none, my personal most-anticipated title of the next two months, sink or swim. I am, however, beginning to get nervous about its Oscar […]
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Movies that Oscar missed
Posted by John Foote · 12:12 pm · May 26th, 2008
As film junkies, we all know it happens. Usually every single year there are one or more films the Academy passes over for Best Picture consideration, in some cases because there are, after all, just five slots available, but in others because, well — they blew it. Like the rest of you, I sit and […]
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REVIEW: “Breaking and Entering” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:52 am · September 10th, 2006
Anthony Minghella’s “Breaking and Entering” is one of the most sincerely penetrating films of the year. It’s most unique quality is the sense of legroom it provides, a healthy stretch of a film with deep breaths and drawn out considerations, as opposed to the typical anxiety of temperamental manipulation (which all film tends to be […]
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