Best Documentary: The only Oscar race with any drama
While most Oscar categories seem like foregone conclusions, the documentary race is still generating suspense. Here’s a quick guide to the contenders
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Silver screen sirens who found fame but lost youth
The Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci is gracious and cultured – an intellectual and an aesthete, not an ogre. But his remarks following the death of the French actress Maria Schneider last week suggested that he is racked with guilt over his behaviour 40 years ago when he worked with her and Marlon Brando on Last Tango in Paris. Related Stories Why Fox News rodeo clown should be chased …
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Video Interview: Director Miguel Arteta talks Cedar Rapids
Probably one of the fastest films to be released out of this years Sundance Film Festival is Director Miguel Arterta’s comedy Cedar Rapids starring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr. My one biggest problem with this film is that it wasn’t a Sundance film, it was a “movie”, made for […]
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In the Works: New Take on Billboard-Sitting Contest, Textbook Wars, YoYos, Los Amigos & NW Hip Hop
“Billboard” Zeke Zelker (“InSearchOf”) headed to the Sundance Film Festival with a film, but he didn’t spend most of his time handing out postcards or getting ready for post-screening Q&A’s. Zelker served as co-producer for Lance Weiler’s short “Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259” (Watch it here), but spent most of his time as the on-site producer for the film’s interactive component, “Pandemic 1.0 …
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