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13 Important Lessons This Year’s Movies Can Learn From the Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection is an ever-expanding accumulation of canonical works of cinema. Yet Criterion’s selections don’t only represent deliberate attempts to construct a pristine archive…
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12 Movies to Watch After You See ‘Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues’
Much of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is more of the same from Ron Burgundy and the gang. As the lead character, Will Ferrell does…
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Fund This Film: Sundance Selected ‘Obvious Child’ Stars Jenny Slate, David Cross and Gaby Hoffman
First of all, let’s not get confused. There are two films at Sundance next month with almost the same name. There’s The Obvious Child, a…
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25 Things We Learned From Martin Scorsese’s ‘Gangs of New York’ Commentary
25 Things We Learned From Martin Scorsese’s ‘Gangs of New York’ Commentary Gangs of New York was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and yet, I…
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Fade Out: Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)
I was already in love with movies before someone showed me Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca at the tender age of nineteen, but something about it opened…
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Fade Out: Peter O’Toole (1932–2013)
Gregory Peck. Rex Harrison. Cliff Robertson. John Wayne. Marlon Brando. Robert DeNiro. Ben Kingsley. Forest Whitaker. These are the people who won Best Actor in…
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13 Movies to Watch After You’ve Seen ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
After all the thrill and adventure of The Desolation of Smaug, you’re going to wish there was more to watch. Well, there is, only it’s…
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Fund This Film: ‘Extinction Soup’ Could Be The Next ‘Blackfish’
With the success of both Blackfish and The Cove, don’t be surprised if the marine life issue films keep coming. They’ve actually been around for…
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25 Things We Learned from the ‘Fast & Furious 6’ Commentary
After fourteen years, the Fast & Furious franchise has gone through quite a few changes. The first three films struggled with changing casts and somewhat…