February 2007 - Posts

The week's critic wrangle: "Avenue Montaigne," "Bamako."
Fri, Feb 16 2007 4:58 PM

+ Avenue Montaigne: Either breezy but inconsequential (Nick Schager at Slant) or a humble pleasure (Manohla Dargis at the New...

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Booked.
Thu, Feb 15 2007 11:25 AM

We're booked all day, but wanted to stop by to call attention to one bit of parent network news —...

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Odds: Wednesday - Serious critics, serious art.
Wed, Feb 14 2007 9:08 PM

Film criticism, as it has been observed, is the rationalization of taste into theory, writes Manohla Dargis at the New...

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I'm a cyborg, but that's just life (in rose).
Wed, Feb 14 2007 4:14 PM

We haven't been keeping abreast with Berlinale news, so we thought we'd take a break to look at what's been...

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In the works: An auteur update.
Wed, Feb 14 2007 11:22 AM

Trailers of the day: One for actress Sarah Polley's feature directorial debut Away From Her, here. We caught the film...

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Odds: Tuesday - Amerika.
Tue, Feb 13 2007 5:50 PM

Watching Hannibal Rising, Slate's Dana Stevens finds herself experiencing an unexpected emotion for a half-assed would-be blockbuster: shame at being...

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Lists of love and kitsch.
Tue, Feb 13 2007 1:59 PM

At the New York Daily News, Joe Neumaier has a Valentine-inspired list of New York City's 100 most romantic movies...

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A kind of love story.
Tue, Feb 13 2007 1:21 PM

Once more around on the guitar...er, we mean interview circuit. Drew Barrymore talks break-ups, rom-coms and, more importantly, her role...

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In the works: Jaco van Dormael, Morgan Spurlock are a go.
Mon, Feb 12 2007 4:21 PM

Trailer of the day: A teaser for Ocean's Thirteen, here. We can't actually get it to work as our computer...

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IFC News: Unsexy sex, Ryan Fleck.
Mon, Feb 12 2007 1:28 PM

This week on IFC News: The IFC News team has a Valentine's Day list of favorite unsexy sex scenes. Among...

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Odds: Friday - Entropy porn.
Fri, Feb 9 2007 5:41 PM

We're on our way out, but a few quickies: The fine folks at Spout.com foolishly chose to interview us as...

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In the works: Borat 2, or not.
Fri, Feb 9 2007 4:47 PM

The day's trailers: One for Nancy Drew, here. Fear the coming of the mini-Julia. One for Fracture, with a dueling...

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The week's critic wrangle: Lives, souls and a nice chianti.
Fri, Feb 9 2007 3:18 PM

+ The Lives of Others: We've battled back a perverse urge to hate on Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut more...

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Odds: Thursday - The trailer park Marilyn Monroe of our time.
Thu, Feb 8 2007 5:21 PM

Anna Nicole Smith is dead. [Via AP.] She was not, we'll grant you, a feature player in the independent film...

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See a grown squirrel cry.
Thu, Feb 8 2007 2:11 PM

In which we take a look around at who's being quotable (or at least, quoted) at the moment. Vincent Cassel...

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