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Tribeca: Life Partners With Benefits
Tribeca coverage continues with Jason on Life Partners with Leighton Meester & Gillian Jacobs When I say that the specter of Frances Ha hangs heavy over Life Partners, you should probably keep in...
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I'm Just A Girl Who Can't Say No (To Links)
HAPPY OKLAHOMA DAY! For serious that's what it is today so any of you reading from the Sooner state enjoy yourselves just a little bit more for the rest of us today I'm just a girl who cain't say no,...
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"should I choose the smoothest course...is all my dreaming at an end?"
Happy Earth Day to all! For this week's Hit Me With Your Best Shot we're looking at the environmentalist drama, romantic fantasy, historical epic, animated musical (*whew*) known simply as Pocahontas....
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Visual Index ~ Pocahontas (1995)
For Earth Day, Hit Me With Your Best Shot returns to Disney's long neglected Pocahontas (1995). Can you sing with all the colors of the wind? The movie uses a lot of them and not shyly: blues, greens,...
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Tribeca: Gender Punk Love Story
Reporting again from Tribeca, here's Jason on the Tiger-winning Something Must Break from Swedish director Ester Martin Bergsmark. Xavier Dolan directing a remake of Fassbinder's In a Year of Thirteen...
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Tribeca: Golden Bear, Black Coal, Thin Ice, Great Movie
The Chinese industrial revolution has been very good for a lot of people. It just so happens that many of them are not the laborers and villagers that personified the nation of one billion people for...
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Tribeca: Spacey, Shakespeare, and Sightseeing
Tribeca Film Festival Coverage continues. Here's abstew on a Kevin Spacey doc "That's why the film is called 'Now', it's not just the first word spoken at the beginning of the play, but it was meant to...
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Tribeca: Eco-Thrills in "Night Moves"
Tribeca coverage with Glenn on the latest from Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy & Lucy) “Reserved, even by Kelly Reichardt’s standards.” That was the line I used to describe this Portland...
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Tribeca: "Vara: A Blessing" A Colorful Hallucination
More Tribeca from Nathaniel... Have you ever felt cheated by a movie you actually liked? If so sit down next to me and let's talk Vara: A Blessing over popcorn. Vara: A BlessingA general rule of thumb...
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Tribeca: Five Films From Midnight
Here's Jason on five films off of the Midnight Movies portion of the Tribeca Film Fest's expansive programming. Rupert Evans in the great new horror film "The Canal" Every year when the New York Film...
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Supporting Smackdown '03: Holly, Marcia, Patty, Renée & Shohreh
For the latest edition of StinkyLulu's Supporting Actress Smackdown -- which was delayed for reasons I won't bore you with again -- Stinky and I welcome you to a much-discussed Oscar contest, ten...
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Tribeca: "Zero Motivation," Winner of Best Narrative Feature
Here's Diana on one of the big winners of the Tribeca Film Festival... A young woman saves a seat on a bus for her friend. The friend runs on and all is well, or at least until the driver tells...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot. What's Next?
UPDATED 05/25 In the interest of not falling behind... and giving Robert Altman's and Michelangelo Antonioni's the undivided attention they absolutely deserve, a slight one week push-back adjustment....
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Mean Girls: 1) Choose Your Seat and 2) Scribble in the Burn Book
Mean Girls Anniversary Week Two comment party questions for you this lovely Friday. click for a larger view in new window THE CAFETERIAI love how detailed the North Shore High's social structure is...
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Tribeca: Posturing Bank Robbing Beauties in "Electric Slide"
More from Nathaniel at the Tribeca Film Festival Electric SlideThere's something about the Killer Films logo, that has me rooting for the film that follows every time. Christine Vachon's company has...
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Smackdown: Internal Dramas & DVD Death
Just to give you all a sense of the challenge of the Supporting Actress Smackdowns, I thought I'd share some behind-the-scenes notes. A lot of prep work went into the years we've covered (1952, 1968,...
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Will Renée Zellweger Ever Achieve 'Comeback' Status
We welcome back Matthew Eng (who has been studying abroad) with a response of sorts to yesterday's Smackdown just in time for the Zeéeeee's 45th birthday today. Renée Zellweger at an Armani show in...
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ICYMI, A Smackdown Addendum
Busy busy week but that was mostly the team running around catching Tribeca Screenings. (We'll finish the write-ups very soon). But other than the film festival, I hope you didn't miss these five key...
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Tribeca: "Third Person," An Inconclusive Panorama of Trust Issues
Just a few more Tribeca reports to go. Here's Diana on "Third Person." In another chapter on writer stereotypes (see also: 5 to 7), Paul Haggis’ Third Person opens on Liam Neeson’s hulking handsome...
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Tribeca: On Distribution Anxiety and Stag Getaways
Tribeca coverage continues with Nathaniel on "Loitering With Intent" and "The Bachelor Weekend". The way I see it, distributors pick up movies for one or more of four reasons, all of which are market...
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