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Greg Ellwood has done a pretty solid job of summing up Saturday night’s event at The Paley Center in Beverly Hills. The evening featured the debut of “Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides,” a new installment in PBS’s “American Masters” documentary series, directed by Gail Levin. The film is incredibly in-depth. By the time the credits [...]
Bridges abides
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:41 am · January 10th, 2011
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Why ‘Lebowski’ will win Bridges the Oscar
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:40 am · March 7th, 2010
Spot quiz: how many award mentions did Jeff Bridges receive for his inspired comic turn in “The Big Lebowski” 11 years ago? If you guessed anything other than a single Satellite Award nod for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, you’d be wrong. (That’s right, even the Golden Globes preferred Robin Williams in “Patch [...]
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INTERVIEW: Jeff Bridges
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:36 am · December 1st, 2009
For actor Jeff Bridges, whose career has already spanned five decades, Scott Cooper’s “Crazy Heart” was something of a homecoming and, the actor says, “a dream come true.” Bridges stars in the film as Bad Blake, a ramblin’ country-western singer who travels the Southwest playing dive after dive, cut from the same cloth as Hank [...]
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Dude
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:26 pm · November 8th, 2009
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The Coens abide
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:44 pm · September 12th, 2009
I’ve been chewing on the Coen brothers’ “A Serious Man” like a thick piece of spiritual jerky ever since I walked out of the Clariety screening room in Beverly Hills yesterday evening. I’ve retweeted other perspectives, exchanged emails with industry types equally leveled by it and, in my own way, started banging the drum for [...]
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Second life
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:51 am · August 16th, 2009
On Friday, John Foote raised the question of which recent films look likely to endure through the coming decades, despite, in many cases, having under-performed on initial release. You responded in your droves. Interestingly enough, Joe Queenan recently addressed a similar issue in a very good essay for The Guardian, contemplating the odd phenomena that [...]
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11/18 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:46 am · November 18th, 2008
• Jeffrey Wells responds to the documentary short list. [Hollywood Elsewhere] • Dave Karger and Missy Schwartz go back and forth on the Oscar prospects of “Slumdog Millionaire.” [Entertainment Weekly] • T.L. Stanley catches up with a report from the “Revolutionary Road” screening this weekend. [Gold Rush] • Peter Bart whines about a lack of [...]
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