This week: Cannes, More PR Nonsense from Netflix, Jax and Clay Together Again Bro, and Paris Hilton Cries Delicious Tears.
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Tags: Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality, Alex Gibney, Alexander Payne, Alexey Balabnov, Angelina Jolie, Ari Folman's The COngress, Bradley Manning, Cannes, Catching Fire, Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Kaufman, Claire Denis, Coen Bros, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Cosmos, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Disney, Donnie Yen, Drew Struzan, Emma Watson, Europe Report, Ghost in the Shell, guillermo del toro, Inside Llewyn Davis, james franco, jean-pierre jeunet, jennifer lawrence, Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jia Zhangeke's A Touch of Sin, julian assange, Justin Marks, Katniss Everdeen, Koreeda Hirokazu, Merida, michelle yeoh, Nation Treasure, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Netflix, Pacific Rim, Paris Hilton, Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited, Pixar's Brave, Ron Perlman, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station, Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring, The Catcher in the Rye, The Young and Prodigious Spivet, Toy Story, Un Certain Regard, Wikileaks, Yeun Wo Ping
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We’re only a week away from the big night now: the 85th annual Academy Awards airs next Sunday night, and I still think Lincoln will have a huge night, or at least a bigger night than the heavy-favorite, Argo. I watched it for a second time this week, and Argo is a really good...
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Tags: Academy Awards, Argo, Ari Folman's The COngress, Ben Affleck, Berlin Film Festival, Beyond the Hills, Calin Peter Netzer, Child's Pose, Christian Mungui, Danny Boyle's Trance, Drew Struzan, Jerry Seinfeld, Jurassic Park, Koreeda Hirokazu, Lincoln, Linday Lohan, Michael Mann, Monster's University, Ninja Ko, Oscar, Park Chan-wook, Paul Schrader, Pixar, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, Seal Team Six, Sleepless in Seattle, Steven Spielberg, Stoker, The Blue Umbrella, The Brain Centrifuge Project, The Canyons, The Grandmaster, tony leung, Wong Kar Wai, Wreck-It-Ralph, You've Got Mail, Zero Dark Thirty
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As a recent New York Times Magazine cover spread on Seinfeld described, the observational humorist spent the last decade or so focused on his stand-up comedy, appearing at low-key gigs in New York and perpetually crafting seamless punch lines.
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Tags: comedy, Jerry Seinfeld, reality TV, seinfeld, Selections, stand-up, tv show
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After careful consideration on Thursday evening as I talked to a few people I know who are attending Comic Con this week, I decided not to bother keeping up with it this year, and not to post any Con info here. If you’re interested in Comic Con news, you’ve already been paying attention and...
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Tags: Abbot and Costello, An American in Paris, Anna Kendrick, Chadwick Boseman, Charlie Kaufman, Chris O'Dowd, Cosmopolis, Darius Khondji, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, David Cronenberg's Comopolis, David Fincher, Dick Zanuck, Ernest Borgnine, Frankie Goes Boom, Gene Kelly, Hank Aaron, Hello I must be Going, ingmar bergman, Jackie Robinson, Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies, Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, Laika Films, Lauren Ambrose, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Birbiglia, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Pang Ho-cheung, ParaNorman, Red Hook Summer, Robert Pattinson, Ron Perlman, San Diego Comic Con, Singin' in the Rain, Sleepwalk with Me, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Harrington, The Dark Knight Rises, The Man of Steel, Trishna, Vulgaria, Who's on First?, Wong Kar Wai, Woody Allen, Y: The Last Man
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What an incredibly, monumentally, stunningly boring week this was as far as film news goes. Between the blackouts in the Mid-Atlantic that knocked a bunch of web services offline and the 4th of July getting in the middle of everyone’s shit and Comic Con next weekend (and Scott Howson refusing to trade Rich Nash…...
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Tags: 2 Days in New York, 4D, Alexander Gellner's One Minute Puberty, Alison Pill, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Caroline Torres' 21 Years in 7 Minutes, Chris Messina, Chris Rock, Christopher Nolan, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Gael Garcia Bernal, Gary Oldman, guy pearce, Hani Furstenburg, Hellboy, Jerry Seinfeld, jesse eisenberg, Jessica Chastain, John Ford, John Hillcoa, Julie Delpy, Jurassic Park, Larry David, mark wahlberg, Mia Waskowska, Mila Kunis, Neil Labute, Peter Bagdonavich, peter jackson, Pixar, Ron Perlman, Seth MacFarlane's Ted, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, The Dark Knight Rises, the hobbit, The Loneliest Planet, Tom Hardy, Why Stop Now
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I hadn’t planned on writing anything about the finale of House that aired Monday night to mixed reviews. For one thing, I didn’t watch it until later that night because I was watching hockey. Also true is that, despite an apparently changing wind that has stirred everyone but me, I don’t really like TV....
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Tags: Bob Newhart, David Chase, David Shore, Ed O'Neil, Fox, Goodfellas, House, Hugh Laurie, James Gandolphini, Jerry Seinfeld, Katy Segal, Larry David, M*A*S*H, Married with Children, The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wonder Years, TV
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So we found out this week that the endgame to studios taking down all of the screenplay websites online was thay that they want to sell annotated scripts as ebooks filled with extras now. WB got the ball rolling this week with Inside the Script, offering annotated screenplay ebooks of classic films like Casablanca...
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Adam Johnson, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, All the President's Men, Amanda Seyfried, Amazing Spider-Man, Beastie Boys, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Bradlee, Cannes, Casablanca, Chloe Moretz, Chris Chaney, Disney's Wreck-It-Ralph, Drew Struzan, Elizabeth Olsen, Emily Blunt, Emma Watson, Federico Fellini, Get the Loot, james cameron, Jerry Seinfeld, Jessica Alba, John Cusack, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, kick-ass, Larry David, Linda Lovelace, Looper, Mark Millar, Mia Hansen-Love, Oldboy Remake, Oscilloscope, Philip Glass, Sasha Baron Cohen's The Dictator, Scarlet Johansson, Sofia Coppola's The Blind Ring, Spencer Locke, Stanley Kubrick, The Newsroom, The Possession, Tron: Uprising, WB Inside the Script, Yang Jia, Ying Lian
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