For the third year in a row, we convene in these pages with our crystal ball and attempt to gaze into the future of the toughest, most uncertain type of film that there is to gauge: foreign films. Things have changed slightly since our last installment though. Most notably Netflix’s streaming prowess has grown...
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Tags: Asghar Farhadi's The Past, Attila Marcel, Belle & Sebastian, Berenice Bejo, Bruce Lee, Emily Browning, From Up on Poppy Hill, God Help the Girl, Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki, Stuart Murdoch, Sylvain Chomet, Tahar Rahim, tony leung, wong kar wai's the grandmaster, Zhang Ziyi
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I didn’t quite binge watch House of Cards like some people did, watching all 13 episodes over the first weekend. It took me the whole week, mostly because I couldn’t get as into the hard, centralized plot that drove the story. To me, the Underwood’s machinations weren’t nearly interesting enough to carry roughly 13...
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Tags: Adam and Dog, Adam Reikert, Al Pacino, Anapurna Pictures, BAFTAs, Before Midnight, Corey Stoll, David Mamet, Disney's Paperman, Ethan Hawke, Frances Ha, Gael Garcia Bernal, Glen Keane, greta gerwig, HBO, Head Over Heels, House of Cards, Ip Man, John Kahrs, Julie Delpy, Kate Mara, Kevin Spacey, Kristen Connolly, Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, Megan Ellison, Melissa McCarthy, Minkyu Lee, Noah Baumbach, Oscars, Pablo Larrain's No, Pete Docter, Phil Spector, Pixar's Inside Out, Rex Reed Sucks, Richard Linklatter, Room 237, Stanley Kubrick, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Gransmaster, The Pirate Bay: Away From the Keyboard, The Shining, tony leung, Wong Kar Wai, Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, Zhang Ziyi
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Three days later and I’m still stuffed from Thanksgiving, but it only makes it easier and more logical to gorge on movies along with gorging on leftover pie and corn bread stuffing. The cold I came down with this week didn’t help much since I was konking out left and right, but I managed...
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Tags: 4k HDTV, Alan Moore, Alfred Hitchcock, Crossfire Hurricanae, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, FBI Files, Finding Nemo 3D, Fleisher Studios' Superman, Hayao Miyazaki, HBO's Girls, Hollywood 10, Hollywood Blacklist, Indie Game: The Movie, Isao Takahata, Kim Dotcom, Lee Unkrich, Life of Pi, Lindsay Lohan, Liz and Dick, Megaupload, Paul Thomas Anderson, Pixar, Rolling Stones, The Grandmaster, The Host 2, The X-Files, The Zapruder Film, tony leung, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Ziyi
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It’s kind of hard to get away from the Olympics right now, even for movie writers. The Olympics are, in some ways, more cinematic than movies are. Nerves, last gasp thrills and lots (and lots) of tears. All the things we love about movies. I was shocked this week to read that women and...
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Tags: 70mm, About Cherry, Alfred Hitchcock, Ann Druyan, Ashley Hinslow, Bachelorette, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Carl Sagan, Cecelia Cheung, Citizen Kane, Contact, Court 13, danny boyle, Dev Patel, Disney's Wreck-It-Ralph, ESPN 30 for 30, Full Metal Jacket, Glory at Sea, Hur Jin-ho, james franco, James Stewart, John Krasinski, Kathryn Bigelow, Kim Novak, Kirstin Dunst, Korean Box Office, Lena Dunham, Lizzy Caplan, Locarno Film Festival, Matthew Modine, Nobody Walks, Olivia Thirlby, Olympics, Once Upon a Time in America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Ry Russo-Young, Sergio Leone, Sight & Sound Poll, Stanley Kubrick, The Birds, The Dark Knight Rises, The Girl, The Paperboy, Tippi Hedron, Tokyo Story, Tony Martin, Vertigo, Zero Dark Thirty, Zhang Ziyi
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