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Richard Roeper to Replace Roger Ebert at Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper will replace Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times as its movie columnist, the paper said Thursday. Roeper co-hosted the television series At the Movies from 2000 - 2008 with Ebert, who...
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‘12 Years A Slave’ and ‘The Square’ Win Audience Awards in Toronto
Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave. 12 Years A Slave picked up the People's Choice Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday, possibly signaling it will have a good run in the...
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Woody Allen to Receive Honorary Golden Globe Award
Woody Allen will be making a trip out to L.A. this awards season. The veteran filmmaker will be this year's recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes. The...
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NYFF51 Spotlight: Science and Art Collide in “Particle Fever”
David Kaplan (right) is the star and producer of Particle Fever. Highly acclaimed at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, where it won the Audience Award, this documentary about the most significant scientific...
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France Names ‘Renoir’ Its Best Foreign Language Oscar Contender
Gilles Bourdos' Renoir has been selected by France as its contender for Best Foreign Language Oscar consideration this year. The film debuted in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section in 2012. The...
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European Film Awards to Fete Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar at Film Society in June. Photo: Philip May The European Film Academy will honor Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award at the 26th European...
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NYFF51 Spotlight: Wiseman’s “At Berkeley” Looks at Free Speech Under...
Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley. The fallout from the financial crisis, the challenges facing public education, and the idealism of youth are just some areas covered in Frederick Wiseman's latest epic...
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Richard Linklater to Be Feted at 23rd Gotham Awards
Richard Linklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Photo by Brian Brooks Before Midnight director Richard Linklater will be this year's Director...
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NYFF51 Spotlight: The Dream World of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Real”
Haruka Ayase is Atsumi in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Real. Acclaimed Japanese director and New York Film Festival regular Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest movie, Real, was a late addition to this year’s Official...
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Dozens of Jean-Luc Godard Films Added to Retrospective
Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie. Long heralded as a beacon of the French New Wave and a treasured figure for cineastes, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced complete details for its upcoming...
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“Hide Your Smiling Faces” Skews the Usual Coming of Age Story
Daniel Patrick Carbone's Hide Your Smiling Faces. Hide Your Smiling Faces takes an different route than the usual coming-of-age stories about youth figuring out the world. Directed by newcomer Daniel...
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An “Abnormal” Hurricane Katrina Documentary
While some documentaries are about horrific tragedies, others focus on their aftermath. Screening this Thursday in our ongoing Art of the Real series, the "post-post" Hurricane Katrina doc Getting...
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Third Trimester Abortion Doc “After Tiller” Personalizes the Political
In 2009, Dr. George Tiller was one of only five doctors who practiced third-trimester abortions. He was one of the biggest targets of militant anti-abortionists, serving as a poster-child for the...
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NYFF Honoree Cate Blanchett Set for Directorial Debut
Cate Blanchett has been a mainstay in front of the camera for two decades, but now she is about to assume the directorial role on an adaptation of Dutch writer Herman Koch's novel, The Dinner. The...
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UK Picks “Metro Manila”& Mexico Taps Cannes Winner ‘Heli’ for Oscars
Amat Excalante's Heli A BAFTA selection committee has submitted Philippines-set crime thriller Metro Manila as its choice consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category, while Cannes...
View ArticleNYFF51 Clips (Part 1)
The 51st New York Film Festival is only a week away and it's time to get excited. To whet your appetite, we've gather up a whole bunch of clips, many of them exclusive, from some of the films that...
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Our NYFF Trailer Contest Returns
Opening Night of the 51st New York Film Festival is only a week away! One week. Seven days. We're feeling excited, maybe a little anxious, and suddenly generous. So we figure it's time to bring back...
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Here's a second batch of clips from New York Film Festival films, including Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, Jealousy, The Last of the Unjust, Le Week-end, and Like Father Like Son: Jimmy P:...
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NYFF51 Spotlight: The World on a Wire in “Manakamana”
Sometimes the complexities of the trip make the destination all the more worthwhile. Manakamana, the new film from directors Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez of the famed Harvard Sensory Ethnography...
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The third installment of our collection of clips from 51st New York Film Festival selections includes Lav Diaz's Norte, The End of History; Hany Abu-Assad's Omar; Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs; and...
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