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Harry Shearer: The Savior Of New Orleans
With the Mississippi River about to overflow its banks in the beleaguered city of New Orleans, the specter of Hurricane Katrina, a devastation the city has still not recovered from, becomes an interesting focus of renewed speculation from a somewhat … Continue reading
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Will Ferrell In A Dramatic Mode
Will Ferrell is best known as a big and small screen funnyman (his 7 year stint on Saturday Night Live and his current role as the clueless boss in The Office) but in the course of his movie career, he … Continue reading
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Person Of The Week: Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier, an iconic screen presence and a game changer for the way that African Americans were perceived in the turbulent years of the 1950s and 1960s, is being honored this evening by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in … Continue reading
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Brooklyn Welcomes A Screen Goddess
Brooklyn…..get ready for some true glamour. Catherine Deneuve, the grande dame of French cinema will receive a career retrospective starting on Friday, March 4 at the BAMcinématek, Brooklyn’s leading art house cinema. In the month-long tribute, 25 films from the … Continue reading
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Susan Sarandon To Be Feted At BAM
A real, honest-to-goodness movie star will grace the agonizingly chic borough of Brooklyn when screen goddess (and serious actress) Susan Sarandon is feted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this coming weekend. Starting on Thursday and running through Sunday, the … Continue reading
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In Rabbit Hole, Oscar-Winning Actress Nicole Kidman Explores Grief and Loss
In taking Rabbit Hole to the big screen, glamorous Oscar winner Nicole Kidman took an incredible chance in bringing this dark examination of loss and recovery to a much larger audience. But in doing so, it has already garnered her … Continue reading
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Interview With Mark Duplass
The brothers Jay and Mark Duplass are independent filmmakers who are breaking out of micro-budget filmmaking into the mainstream. They have been associated with a branch of DIY (Do It Yourself) filmmaking named “mumblecore” by a sound recordist. The roots … Continue reading
English Actress Carey Mulligan Gets An Education and Award Noms
With An Education, the 24-year-old British actress Carey Mulligan has come out of nowhere to garner the kind of critical acclaim and award notice that few receive so quickly — she’s up for a Golden Globe for example. But her performance as 16-year-old … Continue reading
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Director Paul Schrader’s Controversial Holocaust Film Is Presented At The Israel Film Fest
For veteran director/screenwriter Paul Schrader, seeing his film Adam Resurrected appear in this year’s Israel Film Festival in New York is a little like coming around full circle. Originally released here almost a year ago, his strange surreal little black comedy of a … Continue reading
British Actress Emily Blunt Reigns In The Young Victoria
One of the great things about English actress Emily Blunt is that she carries no vestige of her characters beyond the set — especially not when she’s playing the British Queen Victoria. At her roundtables for The Young Victoria, she … Continue reading
