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First Image from "Freeheld" - It's Really Happening!
This image fills The Film Experience's heart with actressexual joy... God and Ellen Page in "Freeheld" Freeheld, a drama based on adocumentary short, has had a difficult journey to the big screen....
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The Honoraries: Jean-Claude Carrière, Part 1
Our 2014 Honorary Oscar tribute series continues with a two-part look at the long fascinating career of Jean-Claude Carrière. Here's Amir with Part One. Here at The Film Experience, we are normally...
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The Way Big Hero Looks in the Moonlight
As you read this I am en route to L.A. to join Anne Marie & Margaret at the AFI this week so expect coverage of A Most Violent Year and The Gambler premieres, a sneak peek at Selma, a Sophia Loren...
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Yes No Maybe So: Chappie
Manuel here to play our favorite trailer watching game. Is it safe to say that of the 47 films to have been nominated for Best Picture ever since the category's expansion, District 9 remains the...
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The Honoraries: Jean-Claude Carrière, Part 2
Our 2014 Honorary Oscar tribute series continues with a two-part look at the long fascinating career of Jean-Claude Carrière. Here's Tim with Part Two. Yesterday, Amir did a wonderful job of...
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A Year with Kate: On Golden Pond (1981)
Episode 45 of 52: In which Katharine Hepburn makes Oscars history by asserting that old people are interesting. I’ll be honest: I’ve been really nervous to write about this movie. For the past few...
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Threads: "I love her to death"
Jose here, each Wednesday in "Threads" we'll be obsessing over a single costume we're fixated on that week. This week, because we're coming down from a Halloween candy sugar rush, we discuss the...
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Your 2014 animated Oscar contenders
Readers, an apology. Here I am, the Film Experience's resident animation expert, and I'm late with news twice over. First, on Tuesday, the Academy annouced the full list of 20 contenders for Best...
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Freakshow: Pink Cupcakes
Nathaniel's in LA for the week so welcome Adam, who previously covered True Blood, for the latest AHS: Freakshow epsiode. Here's the rundown and commentary. How'd you like the episode? The Motts....
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The Honoraries: Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
In "The Honoraries" we're looking at the careers of this year's Honorary Oscar recipients including Hayao Miyazaki. Here's Manuel on an animated gem... Spirited Away, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle and My...
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Yes No Maybe So: Into the Woods
After a number of official still images, a lovely teaser, rumblings of behind-the-scenes drama, an extended featurette, a bunch of EW covers, and plenty of anticip... ation, the trailer for Rob...
View ArticleTim's Toons: A history of animated Marvels
Tim here. Tomorrow sees the release of Big Hero 6, the 54th feature made by the Walt Disney Animation Studio canon, and the first time that studio has collaborated with its corporate cousins at Marvel...
View ArticleInside the Dolby. AFI Fest Begins!
Anne Marie and I had a stupendous time tonight at the premiere of A Most Violent Year which we were mpressed by: tense, gorgeously shot, with a fiery Jessica Chastain and an ice cool Oscar Isaac. I'll...
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Review: The Overnighters
[The Overnighters was recently longlisted as one of the 134 films in contention for this year's Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Here's Amir with his thoughts on the film.] Jesse Moss spent more than a...
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HTGAWM: He Deserved to Die
Here's Manuel taking over How To Get Away With Murder Recap duties for the next two weeks. Is it is me or was this the first wholly uninteresting HTGAWM episode yet? And might that have to do with the...
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The Honoraries: Harry Belafonte and the Music of 'Beat Street'
In "The Honoraries" we're looking at the careers of this year's Honorary Oscar recipients (O'Hara, Miyazaki, Carriere) and the Jean Hersholt winner (Belafonte). Here's Glenn on a Belafonte hip-hop...
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AFI Opening Night: A Most Violent Year Spawns A Most Excellent Party
Dear readers, though I have crashed a bit mood-wise (blame my Gemini nature) on this Friday the first 24 hours in Los Angeles for "The AFI Fest Presented by Audi - they expect everyone to say that...
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Review: Big Hero 6
Tim here. Something feels unmissably “off” about Big Hero 6, the 54th film in the Walt Disney Animation feature canon. It’s a film that wants to offer a little something for everybody, and succeeds,...
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The Honoraries: Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man" (1952)
In "The Honoraries" we're looking at the careers of this year's Honorary Oscar recipients (O'Hara, Miyazaki, Carrière) and the Jean Hersholt winner (Belafonte). Here's abstew on an Irish fav... I...
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AFI Fest's Young Hollywood Panel on Superheroes, Punching, and Queen Latifah
Margaret and Anne Marie here, reporting from AFI Fest ("presented by [corporation]!"). Last night the AFI and the LA Times kicked off a series of panel discussions with its "Young Hollywood...
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