September 2007 - Posts

Live!
Fri, Sep 28 2007 8:22 AM

Just a reminder — the gods of technology willing, we'll be doing a live New York Film Festival webcast with...

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NYFF: "Go Go Tales."
Thu, Sep 27 2007 9:56 AM

After seeing the press conference that followed "Go Go Tales," it's a mystery to us how Abel Ferrara held it...

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NYFF: "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."w
Tue, Sep 25 2007 4:39 PM

Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" is a robbery-gone-wrong thriller that's heavy on the wrong. The crime's a...

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IFC News: Ang Lee, Lars von Trier, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Mon, Sep 24 2007 11:27 AM

IFC News (well, Matt and our humble self) will be doing live (wooo!) webcasts from the New York Film Festival...

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NYFF: "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly."
Fri, Sep 21 2007 4:54 PM

If, as a colleague suggested, each of Julian Schnabel's now three supposed biopics are really just all about him, then...

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NYFF: "The Darjeeling Limited."
Thu, Sep 20 2007 1:44 PM

Wes Anderson, we love you, but you're bringing us down. The hermetically sealed world of your films — the man-children,...

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NYFF: "The Romance of Astreé and Céladon."
Wed, Sep 19 2007 8:57 PM

The 87-year-old Eric Rohmer has turned back to period films in his late career — 2000's digitally assisted "The Lady...

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NYFF: "I Just Didn't Do It."
Tue, Sep 18 2007 6:22 PM

When you're in Japan, resist any urge to break the law. Seriously. 99.9% of cases that go to trial, the...

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IFC News: The many lives of Jesse James, Larry Fessenden, Loach.
Mon, Sep 17 2007 10:41 AM

This week at IFC News: R. Emmet Sweeney sorts through the many screen incarnations of Jesse James, deeming the greatest...

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"Eastern Promises."
Fri, Sep 14 2007 1:21 PM

The summer of the awkward teenage boy is over: bring on the rough-jawed paragons of manhood. Russell Crowe and Christian...

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This time tomorrow.
Thu, Sep 13 2007 11:24 AM

Alan McGee at the Guardian's Film Blog is giddy over the soundtrack prospects of "The Darjeeling Limited," and goes on...

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Sex, violence, voice-overs.
Tue, Sep 11 2007 5:42 PM

At a roundtable interview for "Eastern Promises" at Toronto, Empire notes the following exchange about the film's extraordinary and already...

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Glancing through Toronto.
Mon, Sep 10 2007 6:37 PM

The problem with Toronto, beside the fact that we don't get to go, is that its films and coverage blend...

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Romancing Foster.
Mon, Sep 10 2007 4:50 PM

In her New York Times fall preview piece, Manohla Dargis analyzes the appeal of Jodie Foster, arguing that she's become...

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IFC News: Handling Paul Haggis, plus Craig Zobel, "Eastern Promises."
Mon, Sep 10 2007 1:28 PM

This week on IFC News: Aaron Hillis talks to Paul Haggis, the man behind one of the most fretted-over Best...

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