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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 […]
OSCAR TALK: Ep. 61 — Wrapping up Toronto, ‘Moneyball’ and Brad Pitt’s Oscar positioning, Roland Emmerich’s ‘Anonymous,’ ‘Rampart’ and turning out the lights
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:53 am · September 16th, 2011
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‘Take Shelter’ and Jessica Chastain win in Deauville
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:42 am · September 11th, 2011
In the midst of early-season festival madness (and sometimes lost in the clutter) is the Deauville Film Festival, which concluded this weekend. Top honors went to Jeff Nichols’s “Take Shelter,” a film of which I’m a big proponent. To start the festival, though, one of the film’s stars, Jessica Chastain, shared the “New Hollywood” award […]
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Michael Shannon is a beast in the spectacular ‘Take Shelter’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:22 am · August 29th, 2011
Not to overstate things, but it’s time to talk about Michael Shannon and the fact that it’ll be amazing if there is a better, more refined, more electrifying performance this year than his work in Jeff Nichols’s “Take Shelter.” This is his best work to date and it deserves a huge swell of awards support. […]
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‘Take Shelter’ takes first award at Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:40 pm · May 19th, 2011
Nine days in, the Cannes Film Festival is winding down. Many of the US journos are flying home, and with Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Skin I Live In” having premiered this morning — review coming tomorrow — the superstar auteurs have all shown their hand. (That’s not to say Nuri Bilge Ceylan or Paolo Sorrentino can’t […]
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The independent film not to be missed
Posted by Blake Rutherford · 6:59 am · April 22nd, 2008
Every year the best of independent cinema convenes at a series of festivals and awards programs, most notably the Independent Spirit Awards. In February, Jeff Nichols, a first-time filmmaker, won an ISA for his first feature length film “Shotgun Stories.” The effort chronicles a deadly family feud between two sets of brothers that ensues upon […]
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