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Things are slow moving at the start of this year’s fest. People are catching up with press screenings of this and that, some of them Venice or Telluride or Cannes, with a few Toronto first-timers thrown in. Firstly, Scott Weinberg joins the dogpile on Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” [...]
TIFF: Not so ‘Funny,’ ‘Super’ buyer interest, Redford still looking
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:48 am · September 11th, 2010
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9/10 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:54 am · September 10th, 2010
• Jeffrey Wells, meanwhile, re-posts his thoughts on James Solomon’s screenplay. [Hollywood Elsewhere] • Pete Hammond reports extensively from Wednesday’s “Tangled” event on the Disney lot. [Deadline] • Tim Gray on Venice’s unique role in film history. [Variety]
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INTERVIEW: Dustin Hoffman
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:24 am · December 26th, 2008
He doesn’t seem like Dustin Hoffman for some reason. He sounds like Dustin Hoffman. He looks like him. But there aren’t really any traces of his decades-long assemblage of characters. And he’s got an approachability that seems somehow uncommon for a star of his stature. But there he is, piecing together a sandwich with arugula, [...]
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Redford on Newman
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:04 pm · September 27th, 2008
There is a point where feelings go beyond words. I have lost a real friend. My life — and this country — is better for his being in it.
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Great Oscarless directors
Posted by John Foote · 3:50 am · June 1st, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Preston Sturges, Ernest Lubitsch, Hal Ashby, Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Spike Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson. Collectively they represent some of the greatest directors in the history of the cinema, and together they share one rather unbelievable fact…not one of them is a Academy Award winner for [...]
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1976: a great year and Oscar blew it
Posted by John Foote · 6:18 am · May 31st, 2008
Continuing the conversation on great years for movies (1974 being my pick for the best), I thought I’d dig into a season rich with material that slipped through Oscar’s fingers. The American bicentennial year was loaded with wonderful films — ground-breaking works that stunned both audiences and critics with their mastery. Three of them were [...]
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Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)
Posted by John Foote · 11:31 am · May 29th, 2008
Trained as an actor at Sanford Meisner’s famed Neighborhood Playhouse — the stomping grounds of Robert Duvall — Sydney Pollack connected to actors because he was one of them…and a damned fine one at that. In fact, his comedy “Tootsie” is not only the greatest American comedy ever made, it is also the greatest study [...]
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