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By Carl DiOrio Hotel Nacional has been site to a number of small-world moments during the ongoing Habana Film Festival. With industry professionals from the U.S., Europe and throughout Latin American here for the 30th annual regional film fest, it's...
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By Carl DiOrio The whole country of Cuba could use a coat of paint. Paint, even nails at times, are among the items still in obvious short supply decades into the U.S. trade embargo, or "El Blockade," as Cubans call... Read More...
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By Carl DiOrio Such an irrepressible city. Havana bore the brunt of no fewer than three hurricanes this year but, as always, just keeps on ticking. An urban landscape decimated by need and neglect in addition to tropical storms, the... Read More...
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The U.S. and world competition line-ups are here; the premieres and sidebars are here. Documentary Competition: 1. Sundance often leans toward the documentary-as-journalism/vehicle for activism, and, from the descriptions, there's again plenty of that this year: Joe Berlinger (going solo!) has "Crude"...
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The day is just beginning, but I am already pleased to be able to read Baz Bambigoye in print in the Daily Mail (he has a shot of Kate Hudson in Nine that still looks like used goods)... and many of the other Brit papers. The obsession with the UK version of Cloris Leachman is starting to slow, though...
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Two years ago Sundance opened with a Brett Morgen's animated doc "Chicago 10," and it's just been announced that the upcoming iteration of the festival (only 57 days to go!) will kick off with more animation -- "Mary and Max," a claymation drama, is the feature debut of Australian...
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John Aravosis's AmericaBlog has chased down another significant "Yes on Prop 8" financial supporter... the CEO of the Cinemark theater chain, in for $9,999. And with that, Sundance (and the media, in particular) will face its first real and direct challenge... as Cinemark owns the Holiday...
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This image floated in from AFI Fest today. I had a great time with Tilda, but what really struck me about this image was how very Jarman it looked to me... more so if there feather and dancing and fighting... but AFI isn't releasing those images.
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JURY AWARDS INTERNATIONAL FEATURE COMPETITION GRAND JURY PRIZE: ACNE SPECIAL MENTION: NIRVANA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION GRAND JURY PRIZE: KASSIM THE DREAM SPECIAL MENTION: THE LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF INTERNATIONAL SHORTS COMPETITION GRAND JURY PRIZE: THE LEGLESS BOY CANNOT DANCE (EL NINO...
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Congratulations are due all around now that Scott Rudin and Miramax decided to launch Doubt 's public life at AFI Fest, here in L.A., next week on Opening Night. The film heroically replaces The Soloist , which after thinking it would stay in place, had to go when the talent just didn't want...
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Sad to say, after Paramount Vantage thought both The Soloist and Defiance would remain as opening and closing for the AFI Festival, word is about to break that The Soloist just officially fell out, nine days before opening. Ouch. ADD - The press release...
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"I'm Gonna Explode" An unhappy girl and a troubled boy meet in detention in their high school in a suburb of Mexico City, and before you can shout "Holy Nouvelle Vague, Batman!" they're running away on a dreamy days-long adventure together, having found their perfect co-conspirator...
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You're not supposed to take to Poppy right off the bat. She rides through London in her wildly colored outfit over the opening credits grinning so cheerily that at any moment a chorus of animated forest creatures threatens to leap out and provide backup as she burst into song. She pops into a bookstore...
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When Wong Kar-wai's lone attempt at a martial arts film, "Ashes of Time," first came out in 1994, it was considered by most to be awfully pretty and mystifyingly elliptical. "Redux" finds it restored, re-edited, seven minutes shorter, with feverishly heightened colors and dramatic...
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Mickey Rourke is one magnificent wreck. "The Wrestler" holds off from giving you the full-frontal of his face for a while, as if he were the monster in a low-budget horror flick. When it does finally creep around, you see misplaced tautness, semi-mobile features, starlet lips, an overall impression...