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Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Xavier Dolan, Guillermo Del Toro and Sienna Miller all had interesting things to say at the kick-off press conference for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival jury.
6 things we learned from the Coens, Jake and Guillermo at their Cannes press conf
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:47 am · May 13th, 2015
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Guillermo Del Toro , Sienna Miller on 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:24 pm · April 21st, 2015
The 2015 Cannes Film Festival announces its Grand Jury and Director’s Fortnight selections.
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Jake Gyllenhaal gets cut to save his daughter in new trailer for 'Southpaw'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:50 am · March 27th, 2015
Jake Gyllenhaal is another boxer looking for a melodramatic comeback in Antoine Fuqua’s “Southpaw” and it looks like a hit.
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton among Georgia Critics’ 2014 winners
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:09 am · January 9th, 2015
The Georgia Film Critics Association helped two emerging dark horses gain a little more heat.
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'Boyhood,' Gyllenhaal, Pike tops with North Texas film critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:43 pm · January 4th, 2015
The North Texas Film Critics Association has joined the crowd and named “Boyhood” the year’s best film. Richard Linklater won Best Director, while Jake Gyllenhaal and Rosamund pike took top acting honors for “Nightcrawler” and “Gone Girl” respectively.
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Could 'Nightcrawler' make a play on a Best Picture nomination?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:14 am · January 2nd, 2015
“Nightcrawler” has become a popular Oscar player on screener as voters sit down to decide the year’s best. With SAG and ACE notches on its belt already, how far can the film go?
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'Gone Girl' named the year's best film by Nevada Film Critics Society
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:45 am · December 20th, 2014
The Nevada Film Critics Society has come along and added another film to the critics/precursor Best Picture hat — David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” — bringing the number of films that have received top honors so far this year up to eight.
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Dublin critics award 'Boyhood,' 'Frank,' Jake Gyllenhaal and Marion Cotillard
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:46 am · December 17th, 2014
Critics in the UK obviously aren’t immune to the charms of “Boyhood,” as the film did well with the London Film Critics Circle and now, the Dublin Film Critics Circle has named it the year’s best.
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11/22 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Coen talks ‘Somewhere’ with Coppola, ‘Country Strong’ a drama, no love for Herzog
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:45 am · November 22nd, 2010
• Joel Coen shows up at an east coast screening of “Somewhere” to conduct a Q&A with Sofia Coppola. [Inside Movies] • Tom O’Neill reports that the HFPA has classified “Country Strong” as a drama. [Gold Derby] • Our own Guy Lodge reacts to the recently released (and apparently unauthorized) “Winnie” trailer. [The Guardian]
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11/8 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Oscar’s misogyny, Gurus back on the case, classifying the 10’s “slots”
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:02 am · November 8th, 2010
• Rachel Shields on the misogyny of Oscar. [The Independent] • Gregory Ellwood reports from Friday’s Britannia Awards. [Awards Campaign] • “The King’s Speech,” Colin Firth and Annette Bening top the new weekly Gurus o’ Gold survey. [Movie City News]
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 38 — ‘Love & Other Drugs,’ lead and supporting actor races, the circuit revs up, favorite horror films
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:58 am · October 29th, 2010
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
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‘Love & Other Drugs’ overdoses on rom-com tropes
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:14 am · October 26th, 2010
I went into last night’s screening of Edward Zwick’s “Love & Other Drugs” wanting to love it. I really did. There was an opportunity here to delicately balance comedy and drama, tell the story of a man’s journey to maturity against the backdrop of a very serious socio-political issue — the pharmaceutical industry — and […]
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First look at Zwick’s ‘Love & Other Drugs’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:45 am · August 13th, 2010
When I took an initial stab at forecasting the Oscar season back in March, I hung my hat on the prospect of Edward Zwick, a perennial also-ran in Oscar’s years of five, and a promising true-story comedy “Love & Other Drugs.” I’ve been steadily pulling back on that punch, though, and while 20th Century Fox […]
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OFF THE CARPET: Looking at the leading gentlemen
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:31 am · November 2nd, 2009
We’ve taken concentrated looks at the lead actress and supporting actress categories in recent weeks. Now let’s turn our attention over to the fellas. Behind the Best Picture race, of course, the lead actor competition is perhaps the most hotly anticipated award of a given Oscar telecast. Movie stars are born, Hollywood staples are rewarded […]
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REVIEW: “Brokeback Mountain” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:54 am · November 23rd, 2005
It is the true mark of artistry that guides a hand away from the simplistic and into the complex. “Brokeback Mountain” is and has been poised to merely be considered “the gay cowboy movie,” a label I’ve defended it against ever since I first read E. Annie Proulx’s short story (which originally appeared in The […]
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REVIEW: “Jarhead” (**1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:47 am · October 21st, 2005
Sam Mendes’s “Jarhead” makes no immediate attempt to connect you to its central character. It makes no attempt to pump emotion and empathy into the veins of the audience. It falls in line with Mendes’ penchant for colder, more removed depictions, and it’s potentially the material that most suits this penchant that the director has […]
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