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I know the film has a lot of devotees on this site — I’m not wholly with them, though for the second year running, I do think Tilda Swinton merits a lot more Best Actress consideration than she’s getting — so you may be pleased to know that florid Italian melodrama “I Am Love” has [...]
A little love for ‘I Am Love’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:55 pm · October 21st, 2010
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International ‘Black Swan’ teaser posters
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:00 am · October 15th, 2010
Okay, now we’re talking. By now, you should be quite familiar with the US one-sheet for Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” — an attractively demure (and unexpectedly snow-white) design that coyly masks the sexy, shadowy craziness served up by the erotic ballet thriller. Now, however, a set of four international teaser posters have landed via Empire [...]
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I am Tilda
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:16 am · April 21st, 2010
Has any actor in recent years put an Oscar to quite such good use as Tilda Swinton? I admit I wasn’t quite behind her win two years ago for “Michael Clayton,” but I’ve enjoyed watching how, after two decades as a kind of alien fringe goddess, she’s recently morphed into a movie star of sorts [...]
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1/19 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:46 am · January 19th, 2010
• Searching for meaning in Robert Downey Jr’s Stark-esque Globes beard. Perhaps too much meaning. [CHUD] • Roger Ebert dives back into the enigma of Michael Haneke’s “Cache.” [Chicago Sun-Times] • Stretching to compare “Avatar” to “Slumdog Millionaire” because of it’s “out of the blue” success. [24 Frames]
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Sight for sore eyes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:03 am · January 19th, 2010
Three weeks into the new decade, the flood of lists rounding up the last one seems to have abated, but I enjoyed Stale Popcorn’s countdown of the decade’s best film posters, whose #1 coincides with that of a similar list on The Auteurs last month. (They have an interesting interview with designer Akiko Stehrenberger here.) [...]
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What’s on your wall?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:27 pm · June 11th, 2009
The powers that be have conspired to put me in a decorating frame of mind this week. First Kris contemplated adding a “Double Indemnity” poster to his home gallery. Then I came across this Empire blogger asking the pertinent question: “What do your movie posters say about you?” And finally, this afternoon I happened to [...]
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Two sugars
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:52 am · June 5th, 2009
As you know, we really love Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Sugar” here at InContention. The film opens today here in the UK, and I sincerely hope discerning Brit audiences can get past the unfamiliar baseball angle and see this for the lovely, universal character piece it is. Anyway, I thought I’d share this beautiful [...]
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More Polish posters
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:51 pm · September 18th, 2008
After this week’s post about Polish movie posters, I received an email from a reader pointing me to MrPoster.com, which he described as “are the world’s largest resource for Polish original vintage movie posters. Over 8,000 different posters are avaialable to the public. Their gallery is in Santa Fe, New Mexico and can be reached [...]
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