So last night I did my duty as a member of the five-person jury for the competition section of the fabulous New York Asian Film Festival. We had fifteen films…
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That's not something I normally say, for a variety of reasons, and I only say it now because, well, I looked at the above trailer for the about-to-start New…
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Well. Now that the official lineup of this year's Cannes Film Festival is out, and the blogosphere du cinema is all abuzz with excitement over the lineup, while more mainstream…
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Just because I'm not there doesn't mean I can't make sarcastic asides.My esteemed colleague Edward Douglas just Twittered this on to his Facebook page: "Jon Krasinski's Brief Lives was REALLY…
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It's called Night and Day, it's a stitch, it's at the New York Film Festival, and I talk a little about it at The Auteurs' Notebook, here.
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Ooops, no, wait. Sorry. Not that The Wrestler. This The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring this guy: Yeah, I know; I gotta learn to use the manual focus when…
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