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NEW YORK – Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor. But the acclaimed master of Spanish cinema — who claims he has gone so far as to demonstrate X-rated moves on an actress to show how he wanted it done on film — still maintains some modesty. The Spanish filmmaker
Political Partying (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
generic1 : “Not since ‘The Birth of a Nation’ has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as ‘Precious,’ Full of brazenly racist clichés (Precious steals and eats an entire bucket of fried chicken), it is a sociological horror show. Worse than Precious itself was the ordeal of watching it with an audience full of patronizing white folk...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW YORK — Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor. But the acclaimed master of Spanish cinema – who claims he has gone so far as to demonstrate X-rated moves on an actress to show how he wanted it done on film – still maintains some modesty. The Spanish filmmaker...
SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's " Rumblefish " - expanded in 1975 from her original short story first published in ' Nimrod: 1968 ', the University of Tulsa's literary journal - succeeded where its bigger budget sibling, " The Outsiders ", so obviously failed. Shot entirely in the monochrome of REM sleep, save for those few frames with superimposed colour...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Filed under: Celebrity Style , Red Carpet The Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey backed film ' Precious' is literally sweeping the nation! The tale of pain and triumph against the odds has generated Oscar buzz and also created a red carpet regular of an unlikely Hollywood starlet: the fabulously and pleasingly plus sized Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe: The young actress is finally bringing curvaceous...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Los Angeles is losing film critic Scott Foundas - he is moving to New York to become associate program director for The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Foundas currently works as the film editor of the LA Weekly . Variety has more details : Foundas, who reviewed hundreds of films for Variety between 2000 and 2005, will begin in his new post at the start of the year with responsibilities for series...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Only two days removed from the announcement that Newsweek's David Ansen would be taking over as the artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, the L.A. Weekly's chief film critic Scott Foundas has taken the Associate Program Director gig at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, where he had previously served as part of the New York Film Festival's selection committee. Whether or not Foundas'...
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Last Friday night 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan took the stage at Carnegie Hall to perform a comedy show entitled Hard Knock Life, as part of the New York Film Festival. The funnyman’s in-your-face delivery ended up offending many. NY Daily News called Morgan “unspeakably filthy.” So much so that many guests left throughout the [...]
The Hot Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This morning, it was announced that David Ansen, who took a buyout at Newsweek and has continued filing reviews their in anticipation of whatever would be next. found his next at the LA Film Festival. The job is Artistic Director. This is, as it turns out, not a direct refilling of Rachel Rosen's slot, which Director of Programming. Teaming up with Ansen is Doug Jones, who has been with LAFF as Senior...
En Face (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Image: http://img181.imagevenue.com/loc461/th_11505_Celebutopia-Molly_Sims-13th_Annual_2009_ACE_Awards-01_122_461lo.jpg ... Related posts: Anne Hathaway – 63rd Annual Tony Awards in New York Anne Hathaway – 54th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards in New York Penelope Cruz @ “Broken Embraces” press conference during the New York Film Festival, New York City, October 11 –...
En Face (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Image: http://img24.imagevenue.com/loc434/th_91226_Bai_Ling_Nipples_taped_Rocks__122_434lo.jpg ... Related posts: Bai Ling @ Opening of Carnival at Bowlmor Lanes in New York City, October 8 – 2 HQs Hayden Panettiere – Fashion Rocks in New York City Penelope Cruz @ “Broken Embraces” press conference during the New York Film Festival, New York City, October 11 – 14 HQs
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Here's Dominique Thomas and Ella Creton in Catherine Breillat's imaginative, provocative, shocking, and hilarious adaptation of Perrault's fairy tale, Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard). I caught it at the New York Film Festival and think it a stone masterpiece, a film Breillat...
The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Antichrist . 2009. Written and directed by Lars von Trier . Produced by Meta Louise Foldager . Cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle . Edited by Anders Refn . Production designed by Karl "Kalli" Juliusson . Art direction by Tim Pannen . Costume design by Frauke Firl . Sound design by Kristian Eidnes Andersen . Cast: Willem Dafoe (He), Charlotte Gainsbourg (She). Lars von Trier's latest (and...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Police, Adjective –a film poignant in its simplistic depiction of human emotion–is the story of a man’s internal struggle with conscience. Assigned to trail a teenager suspected of dealing drugs, young police officer Cristi (Dragos Bucur) is plagued by an unsettling instinct that he will regret ruining the teen’s life in the name of honoring a law that he believes will change...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Writing about it from the New York Film Festival last year, I despaired of Hong Sang-soo's hilarious ode to expat sexual frustration Night and Day ever seeing "any kind of meaningful U.S. release." And while this may only be meaningful...
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pratikshazyfcv | yesterday
NEW YORK – Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor. But the acclaimed master of Spanish cinema — who claims he has gone so far as to demonstrate X-rated moves on an actress to show how he wanted it done on film — still maintains some modesty. The Spanish filmmaker says there's one...
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) –For a movie about bureaucratic and political machinations in the art world, the documentary "The Art of the Steal" is far more enthralling than it has a right to be. This account of the complex battle for the treasures of the Barnes Foundation, located in a suburb of Philadelphia, becomes a thriller and a complex morality tale that should appeal to far more than just...
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