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Telluride Unwraps Sked on Eve of Festival

Telluride Film Festival announced its complete 2010 festival program on Thursday. Included are 24 new feature films presented by their creators in the...

Stream of Consciousness Cinema: ‘La commedia’

I don't know anything. Is cinema a subjective or objective experience? A few hours from getting on a train to Venice from Florence, my hometown away f...

Spirit Awards Set for Feb. 26

Film Independent has set Feb. 26 as the date for the 26th Independent Spirit Awards. The time and location for next year’s event will be announced at ...

Roadside Gets Toronto Doc 'Cool It'

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s documentary “Cool It.” The film will have its world premiere at the 2010 Tor...

Going the Distance

The movie is a fun but at times uneven take on modern relationships. It stars Drew Barrymore as Erin, a late-blooming wanabee journalist in New York f...

The Winning Season

The title “The Winning Season” is a misnomer in so many ways it’s hard to keep count. It’s such a dreary, listless, disjointed affair, nobody wins, es...

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Stream of Consciousness Cinema: ‘La commedia’

I don't know anything. Is cinema a subjective or objective experience? A few hours from getting on a train to Venice from Florence, my hometown away f...

‘White Wedding’ Awakening

It’s in part from obstacles and issues we’ve confronted through our triangular, multi-cultural and multi-racial friendship that “White Wedding” comes....

‘You Again’ Cast: Between Friends and Bullies

Everybody makes an immediate association to their own past when a script about a high-school bully comes along. A horrible, awkward memory that bubble...

Shanti Lowry: Mute Force in ‘Louis’

There was no dialog to learn for “Louis,” a new release that tells story of young Louis Armstrong in a 1910s-look silent film. Expressing her charact...

Fostering Critical Literacy at Bronx’s Cinema School

Film is not just curriculum content at The Cinema School. At this public high school in Bronx, N.Y., film is the conveyor. The medium is built into th...

Ashley Bell Summons the Spirit for ‘The Last Exorcism’

“The Last Exorcism” is a horror film built around a faux documentary. It’s a “different kind of horror film,” says Ashley Bell, who plays Nell Sweetze...

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PHOTO GALLERY: Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 - "Animal Kingdom"

Ewan McGregor, Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville, David Michôd, Sullivan Stapleton and Andy McPhee at the red carpet screening of "Animal Kingdom."

PHOTO GALLERY: Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 - "Bitter Feast"

Joe Maggio, Peter Phok, Larry Fessenden, Brent Kunkle, Ti West, Amy Seimetz and Seth Anderson at the red carpet screening and Q&A of "Bitte...

PHOTO GALLERY: Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 - "Cyrus"

Marisa Tomei, John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Katie Aselton, Matt Walsh, Marisol Nichols, Jesse Williams an...

Killer Instinct
First of two-part biopic tour de force of craft and performance
The People I’ve Slept With
Asian romcom defies casting clichés but characterizations too formulaic
Louis
Live music's fantastic but accompanying silent film just ain't got that swing
The Last Exorcism
‘Last Exorcism's' Bell 'wore my bruises like war wounds' in demanding role
The Cinema School
Teaching filmmmaking and fostering 'critical literacy' with kids in Bronx
 
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Interviewer: Elliot V. Kotek
Videography: F.J. Productions

Movie: My Dog Tulip
Director: Paul Fierlinger

Director Paul Fierlinger talks about why he decided to make this story into a film and what he hopes people will leave the theaters thinking. Fierlinger and actress Lynn Redgrave discuss their love of dogs.
 
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 Reviews

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Going the Distance

The movie is a fun but at times uneven take on modern relationships. It stars Drew Barrymore as Erin, a late-blooming wanabee journalist in New York f...

The Winning Season

The title “The Winning Season” is a misnomer in so many ways it’s hard to keep count. It’s such a dreary, listless, disjointed affair, nobody wins, es...

The Westsiders (documentary)

Having met “Flea” Virostko in sixth grade, then filming and aiding the fame of the Santa Cruz surf scene by producing “The Kill” cult surf action vide...

The American

A sublime thriller, “The American” opens quietly among the snow-covered forests of Sweden. Jack, a bearded, salt-and-pepper-haired George Clooney, and...

How to Make Love to a Woman

A romantic-comedy at its core, “How to Make Love to a Woman” is masked at the surface as a vulgar sex-comedy. With 1990s-style ongoing sex/relationshi...

The Last Exorcism

Before the film actually starts, three factors affected the general impressions of “The Last Exorcism”: its rating, release date and subject material....

Louis

“Louis” is a silent picture in the true 1920s sense of the term. And that is perhaps its greatest detriment. The combination of vintage camerawork and...

The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada)

A quiet film from Peru, “The Milk of Sorrow” is not without a sense of urgency. Fausta (Magaly Solier) suffers from the titular disease transmitted to...

The People I’ve Slept With

Quentin Lee’s fourth feature brings a multicultural, Asian-centric sensibility to the dating-while-pregnant romcom. Like Katherine Heigl’s character i...

 News & Views

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Telluride Unwraps Sked on Eve of Festival

Telluride Film Festival announced its complete 2010 festival program on Thursday. Included are 24 new feature films presented by their creators in the...

Spirit Awards Set for Feb. 26

Film Independent has set Feb. 26 as the date for the 26th Independent Spirit Awards. The time and location for next year’s event will be announced at ...

Roadside Gets Toronto Doc 'Cool It'

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s documentary “Cool It.” The film will have its world premiere at the 2010 Tor...

HBO Buys U.S. Rights to 'Precious' Doc

HBO has acquired U.S. rights to the documentary “Precious Life.” An official selection at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, the film w...

Freestyle, Cinemarket to Release 'Nutcracker in 3D'

Freestyle Releasing and Cinemarket Films will release Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky’s “The Nutcracker in 3D.” The film is scheduled to appear i...

French Director Alain Corneau Dies at 67

Well-known French film director Alain Corneau died early Monday at 67, his agent confirmed in a report by Agence France-Presse. His latest film, “L...

 Videos

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Johnnie To - 'Vengeance'

“Vengeance” is, indeed, what the film is about: that of Francis Costello, a retired professional killer who wants to avenge the deaths of his daughter...

Ruba Nadda, Alexander Siddig and Patricia Clarkson - 'Cairo Time'

“Cairo Time” is the story of the unexpected love between the wife of a Canadian diplomat who is forced to travel to Egypt and the man who hosts her up...

J Blakeson, Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston - 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed'

“The Disappearance of Alice Creed” revolves around the triangular relationship among the main three characters following a kidnapping: Alice, the kidn...

 

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