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AFI FEST 2012 PREVIEW

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:26:17 +0000

The 2012 AFI Fest runs from November 1st-8th. Visit the festival’s official website for more information. It’s AFI Fest time again—this year there will be splashy gala screenings including Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Spielberg’s Lincoln, and the highly-touted Hitchcock, […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #10: Love, Actually

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:59:07 +0000

Back in my Polish flat mere hours before the closing ceremony of this year’s festival—my elbows still sore from fighting my way into press screenings—I duly watched the verdict unravel upon my Twitter feed, hitting the ‘refresh’ button incessantly as […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #8: Hello, I Must Be Going

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:17:03 +0000

Another sunny day here in Cannes started with a loud round of booing to greet the end credits of Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy: a pulpy, finger-painted piece of unfocused melodrama that stands a good chance of spawning a midnight cult […]

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AMOUR

Mon, 21 May 2012 04:50:06 +0000

Its soundtrack devoid of just about everything but the actors’ voices and the piano music they occasionally listen to, and its space confined almost totally to the couple’s spacious flat, Love feels like a purposefully clean movie; an orderly ordeal.

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