All posts tagged "Oscar hopeful"
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (★★★)
I’m not particularly wild about Wes Anderson, that much is probably clear to you all by now. His cinematic view of the world just doesn’t...
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’ will hit theaters on December 12th
Mark down Inherent Vice for Oscar contention folks. At the very least, Warner Brothers must be feeling good about their chances with Paul Thomas Anderson’s...
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Omar (★★★)
Back when I saw the foreign drama Omar at the most recent New York Film Festival, it was nothing more than Palestine’s submission for Best...
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Check Out the Olympic Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’ – Written by Joel & Ethan Coen
Thanks to Kelly Doucette for sending this along. I guess I missed it completely. One of the more anticipated films of this upcoming year is...
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Talking ‘The Pretty One’ with Zoe Kazan and Jenée LaMarque
My favorite film of 2014 so far, The Pretty One is the sort of top notch indie film that needs all the attention that it...
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Weinstein Company Picks up ‘The Imitation Game’ at Berlin
Over at the Berlin Film Festival, a lot of deals are likely to go down, some for films that aren’t even playing at the fest....
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Jonny Greenwood Will Score Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’
One of the many pleasures of seeing a Paul Thomas Anderson film these days is the accompanying score by Jonny Greenwood. The incredibly unique work...
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IFC Films picks up ‘Camp X-Ray’ starring Kristen Stewart
Though it debuted to somewhat mixed reviews at the Sundance Film Festival, Camp X-Ray was one of the more anticipated films to screen in Park...
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The Monuments Men (★★½)
Well now, I certainly can see now why this movie was bumped from the 2013 awards season. George Clooney‘s The Monuments Men isn’t a bad...
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Magnolia Acquires the Roger Ebert documentary ‘Life Itself’
Apparently a little bit of a bidding war had broken out recently for the Steve James documentary Life Itself, which of course is about the...
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Check Out the Trailer for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ starring Shailene Woodley
Of all the first half releases coming our way this year, there may be none that’s more potentially poised to be right up my alley...
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New ‘Noah’ Poster along with Planned Super Bowl Trailer
Along with the release of a brand new poster for Darren Aronofsky‘s film, Paramount has announced that they’ll be showing off their tent pole Noah...
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Best Original Song eligibility of ‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ being challenged?
This is a bit of recent Academy Awards controversy that slipped past my attention over the past week or so, but I wanted to catch...
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‘Grace of Monaco’ to Open the Cannes Film Festival
Well, that was a quick about face. After reports only a day or so ago came out that Harvey Weinstein and filmmaker Olivier Dahan had...
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Harvey Weinstein Pulls ‘Grace of Monaco’ from March 14th Release
Well, this seems familiar, doesn’t it? I remember back when many of us thought that Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company had a slam dunk...
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A24 Picks Up J.C. Chandor’s ‘A Most Violent Year’ from Sundance
Sometimes at a film festival, your movie doesn’t even need to have been shot yet in order for it to get acquired. Such is the...
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will Score David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’
I think most of us expected this news to hit eventually, but still, it’s good to know regardless. After successfully collaborating with filmmaker David Fincher...
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Her (★★★★)
I’ve been dropping hints about how much I love Spike Jonze‘s new film Her since I saw it at the New York Film Festival. Now,...
