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When I spoke to Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas earlier this month at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the discussion of scaling things back with their next film came up. After all, when it hits theaters next summer, “The Dark Knight Rises” will mark the third blockbuster in a row for Hollywood’s wunderkind. You […]
Nolan’s Hughes biopic: I say go meta
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:55 pm · February 11th, 2011
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INTERVIEW: Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on building the perfect psychosis in ‘Shutter Island’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:28 am · December 9th, 2010
*PLEASE NOTE: There will be spoilers of both “Inception” and “Shutter Island” in this two-part interview with actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese. Audience members flock the stage of the television Academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, cameras and signables at the ready, as Leonardo DiCaprio patiently weathers the Black Friday-like storm […]
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Scorsese/DiCaprio retrospective set to kick-start ‘Shutter Island’ campaign
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:18 am · October 22nd, 2010
People have scoffed at the idea of a Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” campaign for months now. The film didn’t hit with the critics, therefore it must be an also ran, right? The thing is, it made decent bank and is packed with elements I know for a fact are well-respected from the industry, whether it’s […]
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The new millennium Oscars?
Posted by John Foote · 9:53 am · January 18th, 2009
Looking back over the previous Oscar winners for Best Picture since 2000, the start of a new century (and a new millennium), I find myself wondering sometimes what the hell the Academy was thinking. It’s no secret I disagree with the Academy a lot, but I can also admit that when they get it right, […]
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REVIEW: “The Departed” (****)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:53 am · September 20th, 2006
One of the most artistically ruthless films to be produced in decades, “The Departed” is a spike of adrenaline straight to the heart of an audience desperately in need of such rambunctious filmmaking. A loose but paradoxically loyal remake of the Hong Kong thriller “Infernal Affairs,” the film is doused with a cast of familiar […]
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