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The final film of this great director turned out to be his first ever non-fiction work, a reluctant but ultimately intimate portrait of his dear friend, the renowned architect Frank Gehry.
Gehry himself specifically asked for Pollack to make a...
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Directed & Written: Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Nosferatu the Vampyre)
Starring: Christian Bale (3:10 To Yuma, Batman Begins, American Psycho), Steve Zahn (Riding In Cars With Boys, Reality Bites, Forces Of Nature, Evil Woman), Jeremy Davies...
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Already a celebrated screenwriter and Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright by 1987, David Mamet decided to take the reins behind the camera for the first time with House of Games, a complex, constantly shifting story of manipulation and con men. Its a...
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The Demon Barber of Fleet Street puts the flavour of revenge in Mrs lovetts pies . . . a tale of blood lust, mistaken identity, corruption, and some terrible singing
Directed: Tim Burton (Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Sleepy...
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Claude Chabrol was one of the founders of the Nouvelle Vague in 1960s France, leading the way along with Godard and Truffaut. I haven't seen anything by Chabrol, not even his groundbreaking early work, so perhaps I'm the wrong critic to examine...
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The one Canadian film in competition at the Sydney Film Festival was Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg", a nightmarish montage of stark footage combined with archival material to produce an introspective look into the city the wrapped its claws around...
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One of my favorite directors, Brian De Palma (Scarface, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables) has signed to direct "The Boston Stranglers" for producer Gale Anne Hurd's (The Incredible Hulk).
The film is adapted by Alan Rosen from Susan...
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The Australian premiere of "Silent Light" drew a large, hungry crowd to the State Theatre, eager for a look at this nearly universally praised film by Carlos Reygadas. The film has won awards at Cannes, Stockholm, Chicago and Havana, blowing away...
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This week, Geoff Egan posted a comment on the 'need' for a director on a given movie. He wonders what classic movies might look like if directed by someone else.
"But how much better or worse would say the Godfathers have been if Scorsese...
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Nicolas Cage is the star of this minor hit of 1993, a film which has rightfully developed a fervent following over the years after curiously first debuting on cable tv in the States before being granted a cinematic release.
Its a classic noirish...
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Best Director Prize in Cannes Film Festival : Nuri Bilge Ceylan , the director of Three Monkeys
61. Cannes Film Festivali'nde En İyi Ynetmen dln Nuri Bilge Ceylan aldı. Ceylan dln kucaklarken, "Benim yalnız ve...
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An exhaustive look at Woody Allen's career on The Cinematic Art, a thoughtful film blog that excels in criticism and analysis.
Seeing the iconic image of the Brooklyn Bridge, filmed by Allen for "Manhattan", it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the...
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After celebrating its sixtieth birthday in 2007, Cannes Film Festival begins tomorrow. This year, the visual feast will feature 57 full-length films from 31 countries. Offerings include the new Indiana Jones movie, director Clint Eastwood's...
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Barton Fink was my first exposure to the genius of the Coen brothers, which would flow over into Fargo just five years later and has been rarely glimpsed again - until last year's memorable return to form in No Country for Old Men. Barton Fink...
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Last year I was fortunate to see the wonderful 2nd film of director Karen Moncrieff called The Dead Girl, which was segmented or divided into five interconnected stories revolving around the discovery - in the opening story - of a dead girl's body....
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I'm quite impressed with my small review blog's efforts. I haven't been able to update it with another review yet I still get a decent hit count each day as more people read through it. Kudos to anyone and everyone out there for taking the time...
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The Straight Story will probably remain David Lynch's one 'moment' of sanity for quite some time, which isn't necessarily a bad thing for those of us who cherish his elusive, incomprehensible, surreal works.
But it's still overwhelming proof of...
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Canadian actress Sarah Polley has mostly confined herself to smaller projects over the years and has steadily built up a very impressive body of work. Talented and striking, though not really a conventional beauty, one suspects she could have been...
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Continuing my great filmakers thread I've got going here I have to make special mention of Charlie Kaufman. Although he is not a filmmaker per se he deserves notice based on the strength of his scripts alone.
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Waitress, an endearing, offbeat comedy is the perfect culmination of Adrienne Shelleys tragically short but significant career as an actress, and finally, as a very fine writerdirector who just may have continued on to even greater things with this...
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