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Director Emily Lou will attend the Special Screening of 2011 Tallgrass Audience Award winner
Paraskevidekatriaphobics, beware: with three Friday the 13ths in 2012, each thirteen weeks apart, those with a deep, blinding fear of the day might be averse to watching the Special Screening hosted...
Jun 16, 2012 / StaffShyam Benegal at the British Film Institute
Over the weekend of the 9 th -10 th June, the BFI is honouring Shyam Benegal, one of India’s leading directors. Considered one of the founders of India’s ‘New Wave’, Benegal began his film career in...
Jun 5, 2012 / Alison FrankVideo: Amazing Steadicam work in ‘Hugo’
Martin Scorsese and Larry McConkey are masters of their crafts. The former is arguably the greatest living director. The latter is one of the world’s foremost Steadicam operators. Their...
Jun 3, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongTrailer: Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’
The latest (and flashiest) adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel “The Great Gatsby” comes at the hands of style-obsessed director Baz Luhrmann. If you’re familiar with the Aussie...
May 24, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongTrailer: Latest Bond film, ‘Skyfall’
“Skyfall” Director: Sam Mendes Writer: Neal Purvis Studio: Columbia Pictures Cast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Dame Judi Dench Release: November 9, 2012 Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past...
May 21, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongWin a ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ prize pack!
In celebration of the upcoming release of “Moonrise Kingdom,” Wes Anderson’s long-awaited followup to 2009’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” The Moving Arts has once again teamed up with Focus Features to offer...
May 21, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongDIFF 2012 Reviews: ‘Extraterrestrial,’ ‘Bindlestiffs,’ ‘Quick,’ ‘Robocop’
“Extraterrestrial” Director: Nacho Vigalondo Writer: Nacho Vigalondo Starring: Michelle Jenner, Carlos Areces, Julián Villagrán “Extraterrestrial” is a movie I’ve been excited about for a while, in...
May 18, 2012 / Henry J. BaughTurin’s Temple to Cinema
Log Out When you think of cinema, Turin may not be the first city that comes to mind. While Paris, a city famed for its cinephilia, has its cinemathèque at Bercy, somewhat off the beaten path for...
May 13, 2012 / Alison Frank25 years later, ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ stands apart in the teen comedy genre
Given the recent surge of 1980s popular culture nostalgia, discussions of that decade’s iconic films unfailingly revert to the unique 1980s teen comedy genre, always dominated by the catalog of John...
Apr 26, 2012 / Charles H. WadeBrevity Pays Off
Like A Secret World (reviewed last week), Southwest ( Sudoeste , 2012, dir. Eduardo Nunes) was a flawed film. But audiences are more likely to be forgiving of A Secret World ’s flaws because the...
Apr 16, 2012 / Alison FrankStanley Kubrick: Master of Contradictions
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic,...
Apr 9, 2012 / Graham DaselerTwo Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist and Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis were both released in 1970, both based on novels (by Alberto Moravia and Giorgio Bassani, respectively)...
Mar 6, 2012 / Alison FrankContest: Win ‘Being Flynn’ tickets, soundtrack, book!
More free stuff! All right, here’s the deal. The Moving Arts has teamed up with Focus Features again, this time to offer you the chance to win a prize pack in advance of the upcoming release of...
Feb 27, 2012 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The Leopard’: novel, opera, but above all, film
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo ) was made in 1963, but is set just over a century earlier, during the Risorgimento, when Garibaldi fought for Italy to be united into one kingdom, free...
Feb 27, 2012 / Alison Frank‘The Descendants’: A loving portrait of the 1 percent
Ben Stiller’s 2001 male modeling comedy “Zoolander” was released just a few weeks after 9/11. It didn’t do well. The consensus was that a contemplative America wasn’t interested in such aggressive...
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