Sinn Féin Issue Christmas Ultimatum for Devolution of Policing & Justice Powers
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Speaking after a meeting with An Taoiseach yesterday the North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness...
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Ed Harris
Runs like a gay (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Happy Birthday to Ed Harris 59 today Multi-hyphenate Harris adds a touch of gritty realism to all the projects he's involved with, thanks to his thorough and grounded performances. On his forthcoming slate of movies I'm most excited by his second collaboration with Peter Weir in The Way Back .
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The Geek Beat: Junk Food Films
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I love to study fandom as much as I love to participate in it. The culture of obsession is a fascinating one, and as a college student I harbored delusions of grandeur that I'd be able to crack it -- and not only would I solve it, but I'd do it with a single project in American Culture I. Oh, how easy everything seems when you're 19! Obviously, I failed to plumb the depths of fandom in a single semester,...
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Edward Woodward
STEVENHARTSITE (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Like a lot of other Americans, I first took note of actor Edward Woodward in ‘Breaker’ Morant, which came as part of the late-Seventies, early-Eighties wave of Australian films that launched Bruce Beresford, Mel Gibson, Bryan Brown, Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi, and George Miller on international careers. As the title character, an Australian officer accused of atrocities against civilians...
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4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile pe locul 14 în topul Times şi pe 17 în topul Telegraph. Dar Fahrenheit 9/11? To be or not to be…
patruped:bun biped:rau (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
De curând Times şi Telegraph au dat publicităţii clasamentele privind cele mai bune 100 de filme din ultimii 10 ani şi înţelegem că fiind independente cele două liste nu au cum să fie la fel, însă filmul lui Cristian Mungiu 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile s-a clasificat pe locul 14 în topul Timesonline şi pe...
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Colorado justice commission suggests lighter penalties for drug possession - The Denver Post
Think Outside the Cage (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Colorado justice commission suggests lighter penalties for drug possession - The Denver PostA commission of Colorado criminal justice leaders voted Friday to recommend reduced penalties for possessing marijuana and other illegal drugs.If Colorado legislators adopt the recommendations, possessing up to 4 ounces of marijuana would become a petty offense instead of a criminal misdemeanor, and
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Starz Denver honoree Ed Harris made time for directors' debut
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
It's the kind of a tale, full of gumption and luck, that bucks up newbie filmmakers everywhere. And, ironically, the story of how Ed Harris came to be in Noah and Logan Miller's intimate debut, "Touching Home," began at a film festival.
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Pix: When Nature struck back
rediff Movies (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A look at different kinds of disaster movies.
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Exclusive Media Group to Acquire Indie Distributor Newmarket
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- It was announced today jointly by Exclusive Media Group's (EMG) CEO Nigel Sinclair and Newmarket's Co-Founder Chris Ball, that EMG will acquire Newmarket Films, the highly regarded Los Angeles based film production and distribution company founded by William Tyrer and Chris Ball in 1994, creating an ideal pairing of two leading independent film companies.
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Religious imbalance in North's civil service reversed
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A long-standing religious imbalance within the North's Civil Service (NICS) has been effectively reversed following a 10% rise in the proportion of Catholic employees in just over a decade, new figures confirmed today.
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Cinema and psychoanalysis
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Whether it's explaining character motivation, or the effect on the audience, film invites you to sit on the psychologist's couch Cinema is a powerful medium for exploring the human condition and the complicated workings of the mind. That is why it has particular resonance for psychoanalysis. Cinema allows the inner world to be represented through moving pictures – and some of our most vivid...
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Mad Max (1979)
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The plot of George Millersoriginal 1979 Mad Max is a stock-standard revenge plot that could have been lifted from any one of several dozen westerns. Not that it matters, because this is a movie that...
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The Virgin Suicides & Picnic at Hanging Rock
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Kirsten Dunst in "Marie Antoinette" (2006). "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975) directed by Peter Weir. Just as the morbid sisters of Sofia Coppola’s Virgin Suicides danced dreamily around their suburban prison awaiting their fates, so too the ill-fated girls of Peter Weir’s Picnic At Hanging Rock dance about, reciting poetry and whispering, dressed in ghostly white attire,...
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Raleigh to open Budapest studio
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Film News: State-of-the-art facility to include nine stages -- Hollywood's Raleigh Studios will open a state-of-the-art facility less than 20 minutes from downtown Budapest, Hungary, in April.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Peter Weir film based on the novel by Joan Lindsay . It's a beautiful film. Criterion has released this one. Online via GoogleVideo: Moria gives it a top 5-star rating and says it's "an incredible and haunting film". Roger Ebert includes it on his list of "great movies" and calls it "a film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria"....