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For anyone familiar with habitual barnburner Armond White and his politics, it's zero surprise that the NY Press critic object strenuously to "Precious." His review of the film has, as usual, much food for the comment trolls, particularly in his insistence that, by attaching their names...
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As Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning laugh riot "The White Ribbon" opens in the UK and Sony Classics ramps up for the December 30th US release of the film, Hari Kunzru comes forth to praise the director and Stuart Klawans to (covertly) bury him. What's funny is they both end up...
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Robert Altman's been dead for nearly three years, and apparently the time for politeness is over. (Hey, it's longer than Heath Ledger got). Mitchel Zuckoff's "Robert Altman: An Oral Biography" hit shelves last Tuesday, a book built out of Altman's final interviews and the voices...
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You know, I really wanted to ignore all the Michael Jackson-related hoopla today, but fat chance. The title "This Is It" is distracting for a concert movie built out of Michael Jackson's rehearsal footage; mostly it just makes me think of The Strokes, but that's my problem. It is, nonetheless...
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This morning, Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted possession of a weapon in the second degree, which could mean up to a year in jail. So "The Carter," the documentary portrait from director Adam Bhala Lough that Wayne tried to prevent from premiering at Sundance, is probably not the first...
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Throughout the summer and fall festival season, Ken Loach has gotten more headlines for his statements against Israel than his new movie "Looking For Eric." Now his Israeli distributor is fighting back. Loach first pulled the comedy from the Melbourne International Film Festival in July because...
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That's what Jason Newman at Moviefone (of all places) sees in the upcoming film, an adaptation of the '60s anime series that was the first to be broadcast outside of Japan. A mere 57 years after "Astro Boy" first burst onto the world, a CGI version will hit theaters next Friday, aiming...
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In a case as tangled with moral, legal and straight-up emotional arguments as the ongoing Roman Polanski one, there's plenty of room for reasonable people to disagree. But wherever you stand, you'd hope at least people would avoid making the debate needlessly glib. And you'd be wrong. Here...
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There's a hot new drama from Pedro Almodóvar; it's just not his new movie. Spain's most famous living filmmaker has had a tempestuous relationship with the Spanish Cinema Academy for year. He and his brother Agustín left the Academy in a huff in 2005 to protest the new voting rules for the...
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Filed under: Woody Allen, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Isabel Coixet, Pedro Almodóvar, Controversy, Abroad, Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, Broken Embraces, The Dancer and the Thief, Goyas, Fernando Trueba, Spain, Gordos
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No content to simply pick a fight with Abel Ferrara, whose 1992 film may or may not have provided source material for his own, Werner Herzog is now using the press kit for "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" to launch barbs at the academics in the audience who dare to compare the two...
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Like many a moviegoer, the American Medical Association Alliance was unhappy with "Wolverine," but not for the same reasons: "Millions of children have been exposed to the main star of the film, Hugh Jackman, with a cigar in his mouth in various scenes," president Sandi Frost told...