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The Oscar op-eds.
Fri, Mar 5 2010 12:17 PM

It's been fun sharing awards season with you (translation: IT'S ALMOST OVER). As we exit the most over-blogged Oscar season of all time, let's back up 21 years to revisite some past Academy controversy. Though this year the New York Times felt compelled to run a piece from research scholar Kim Elsesser bemoaning the fact that gender-segregated acting... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Cyd Charisse, Awards, Rob Lowe, Brokeback Mountain, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Lucille Ball, Dorothy Lamour, Vincent Price, Roy Rogers, Oscars, The New York Times, Glory

How Michelle Williams conquered the "Creek."
Tue, Feb 23 2010 2:39 PM

"Shutter Island" 's financial triumph over the weekend marks the first honest-to-goodness big-budget Hollywood success for Michelle Williams in over a decade. Not since the (underrated) "***" has Williams set foot in something designed for simultaneous consumption on thousands of multiplex screens. Instead, she's chosen to do arthouse... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Heath Ledger, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Brokeback Mountain, Shutter Island, The Rules of Attraction, Michelle Williams, James Van Der Beek, The Hawk Is Dying, Dick, Dawson's Creek, My Bloody Valentine, Kerr Smith, Land of Plenty, Wonder Boys, Katie Holmes

The gloves come off on Heath Ledger.
Wed, Oct 14 2009 6:15 PM

It had to happen eventually. The reverential haze surrounding the late Heath Ledger was bound to dispel. And it's David Thomson, critic, film historian and actor-crazed obsessive who once wrote a whole book about Nicole Kidman in which he gasped over her "gingery pubic hair," who's stepped up to bat first. Thomson takes actors and their iconography... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke, Brad Pitt, Brokeback Mountain, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Robert Downey Jr., David Thomson