January 2008 - Posts

The year of (mostly) Indiewood.
Tue, Jan 22 2008 8:28 AM

The Oscar nominations are up here, and it's "No Country" and "There Will Be Blood" at the head of the...

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IFC News: Woody Allen.
Mon, Jan 21 2008 6:49 PM

This week on IFC News: Aaron Hillis talks with Woody Allen: Do you ever read reviews of your films, or...

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Sundance: Couldn't escape if I wanted to...
Mon, Jan 21 2008 9:31 AM

Sundance is our film festival Waterloo — five days in, we're miserably sick once again despite constant intake of Airborne...

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Sundance 2008: "Frozen River."
Sun, Jan 20 2008 8:41 AM

Melissa Leo has a great face that looks like it's been crumpled into a ball and hastily smoothed back out...

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Sundance 2008: "Just Another Love Story."
Sat, Jan 19 2008 8:25 AM

The meet cute in "Just Another Love Story" is very much not. Jonas (Anders W. Berthelsen) is out with his...

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Sundance 2008: "In Bruges."
Fri, Jan 18 2008 11:19 AM

Bruges is a fetching Belgium town filled with well-preserved medieval architecture, picturesque canals and a church whose spire is one...

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In transit.
Thu, Jan 17 2008 11:31 AM

We're off to Sundance — check back tonight for a review of opening night film "In Bruges." We'll be posting...

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In the works: Casting "The Road."
Tue, Jan 15 2008 2:41 PM

In the works: There's a new cast addition to John Hillcoat's hotly anticipated (at least by us) adaptation of Cormac...

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Bringing the boys to the yard.
Mon, Jan 14 2008 6:01 PM

Jürgen Fauth of About.com's excellent World/Independent Film section has purchased IDrinkYourMilkshake.com, named for the line he's deemed "the new 'Say...

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IFC News: Watch those fingers.
Mon, Jan 14 2008 2:26 PM

This week on IFC News: Aaron Hillis interviews Mitchell Lichtenstein, the director of the infamous "vagina dentata" movie "Teeth": Has...

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In appreciation of certain stars.
Thu, Jan 10 2008 5:54 PM

"It's mean to say it, but here goes: one of the things that has always fascinated me about the actors...

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Prosperity.
Thu, Jan 10 2008 4:47 PM

Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 57 seconds of wistful New Year's well-wishes can be watched on YouTube here. Tip of the...

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Odds: Wednesday - The high and the low.
Wed, Jan 9 2008 7:02 PM

The Berlin Film Festival has added nine more films to its line-up, including Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" and Isabel Coixet's Philip...

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Struck out.
Wed, Jan 9 2008 6:40 PM

So the Golden Globes have been shrunk to an unglamorous press conference, and everyone is raising speculative eyebrows at the...

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It's your "Country" too.
Wed, Jan 9 2008 6:05 PM

Peter Howell at the Toronto Star has an amusing freakout in which he expresses frustration that the public is not...

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