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In the
fog of war, appearances are never reliable for long. Is
James really a swaggering cowboy who lives for peak experiences
and the moments when the margin of error is zero—or
is he a consummate professional who has honed his esoteric
craft to high-wire precision?
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Wilmington
on Movies
The
Twilight Saga: New Moon;
Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans Port of Call; 2012; The Blind Side,
Planet 51 and more ...
by
Michael Wilmington
Like its heroine, Kristen
Stewart once again playing the central character of tormented,
horror-smitten high school outsider Bella Swan—it’s
moody and pretty, and constantly in the throes of a wild supernatural
crush. But I didn’t like it much. And the fact that audiences
are coming in droves didn‘t reassure me.
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20
Weeks To Oscar
The
Drip, Drip, Drip
by
David Poland
I guess what
I am saying is that this season may be the most mouth-breathing,
desperate, media awards season ever. Yet, the lessons learned
are going to be the least informative ever.
Do not
plan on learning anything you can hang onto this year... except
for who wins and who loses. Plenty of noise will be made as endless
Reverse Analysis will prove that hindsight is not always 20/20.
But for all the micro-obsessing, it is unlikely that there will
ever be a year quite like this again.
The Charts
Best
Picture | Actor/Supporting
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Still
not a lot of movement in the Gurus Best Picture picks, just
a few shuffles in the middle of the pack. Meanwhile, the
Best Director picks reflect, but don't quite mirror, the
Picture list. And in Animation, Up leads the way...
so far.
Gurus:
November 18
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Wilmington
on DVD
Star
Trek, Gone With the Wind, The Exiles, Fight Club, Humpday and
more ...
by
Michael Wilmington
Star
Trek, James Bond-style, starts off with a super-bang—a deep space blowup—and then after some childhood action
or psychological stuff for Kirk and Spock, keeps racing us from
one space fight and planetary catastrophe to another, with time
in between for jokes and drama. It’s the action that tends
to hog the show, but the personality that makes it hum.

MCN DVD Wrap
Brüno
by
Gary Dretzka
Overall,
I’d say Brüno's contribution ranks between Borat
and Ali G Indahouse, which played more like an extended
Mr. Bean sketch than anything else. It’s intermittently
hilarious, to be sure. Too often, though, it’s no more entertaining
than the average float in a Gay Pride parade.
Also
... Exiles,
My Sister's Keeper, Fight Club 10th Anniversary Blu-ray, Kevin
Smith Box Set.. and more...
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Frenzy
on the Podcast
Lukas
Moodysson
by
Noah Forrest
Noah Forrest
talks to one of his favorite filmmakers, Lukas Moodysson, about
his new film Mammoth, working with Gael Garcia Bernal
and Michelle Williams, globalization, and Margot at
the Wedding.
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The
Ultimate DVD Geek
Drag
Me To Hell
by
Doug Pratt
The old woman spits out a curse at her, and the rest of the 99-minute
feature is about the curse methodically coming to pass. There
are oodles of jump moments in the film—when was the last time
a handkerchief made you leap out of your seat
twice?—and
effectively conceived and executed characters, so that not only
is the story compelling to follow, it is an effective thrill ride,
clear up to its final turn.
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1,000 Monkeys
Memory Lane
by
Kim Voynar
How many
fine, crisp autumn days did I sit nursing a baby in the living
room of our big house in Redmond, looking out the big picture
windows at the trees dressing up in their fall finery, while the
water of the lake shifted subtly from bright summer blue to moodier
autumn grey? How many brilliantly colored leaves did I watch tumble
gently down from trees, never pausing to consider that each one
that fell marked a moment, a day of my life that could never come
back?
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Digital
Nation
Emmy
Rossum
by
Gary Dretzka
Despite Rossum's
high-profile role in Phantom of the Opera, she’s
been able to fly under the radar of fame for most of her career.
That changed radically this summer, after word leaked that her
near-secret marriage to producer Justin Siegel had
failed and she was dating rocker Adam Duritz,
of Counting Crows. She also insinuated in a recent
radio interview that she was a victim of spousal abuse.
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Frenzy
on the Wall
Let's Blow Up the Planet!
by
Noah Forrest
Literally
every moment, every scene, every line of dialogue is something
you have seen or heard before. It is a compendium of disaster
movie clichés. You want Poseidon Adventure?
You got it. Who cares if it was remade a few years ago? You want Volcano?
Bam! Supervolcano. You want fireballs to shoot from the
sky like meteors in Armageddon? Here
you are.

Voynaristic
Precious Things
by
Kim Voynar
What made
Push: A Novel by Sapphire so remarkable is that
it shows the raw resiliance and courage of the human spirit. The
main character's life is a horror of gut-churning abuse at the
hands of her mother Mary, played fiercely and fearlessly by Mo'Nique,
who grabs hold of this repulsive character with all her strength
and never lets go. She is raw and terrifying and she deserves
absolutely the Oscar nomination she seems poised to receive. In
my book she deserves it.
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Updated
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Updated: 1:47 pm
Ebert
Ponders Palin Hailing Slot Oprah's Bailing
Earlier
- Harpo
To Retire Show Before December 21, 2012
LouLu On Warner's Eyes On MGM's Video Gems
"When a rich child eats her lunch in New York, a poor boy in the Philippines cries. And so it goes, as privilege begets exploitation with grimly deterministic logic and pages and pages of bad dialogue."
The Man Wishes Mammoth Extinct
Robin Williams' Open Heart
Esquire Gets Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh To Talk About His "Elaborate Monte Carlo Simulation" For Picking Projects; Goal Not To Make Another Assassination Of Jesse James
"I put [this] fully in the category of extortion that I did not go along with [and am furious for] having chosen to be passive and quiet in the face of that extortion."
Toback Works Refs On Tyson KO
Trailers du
Jour
The
Yellow Handkerchief
Remember
Me
Beyond
The
Road
The
Wolfman's French Trailer
LA
Weekly Cover-Stories Wes Anderson: Writer Rode With Anderson 10 Years Ago For Another Piece
David Byrne On Jury Experience At Estoril Film Festival; Bites Into Splendid Dogtooth
STV Wells Up With Hal Holbrook
Morgan Freeman Goes Video Kiosk Entrepreneur With USB Digiboo
Trailering
Ricky

Judd Apatow Goes Greek
Jason Reitman's Own Social Media: Twittering, Pie Charts And Picturing The Press
25 Things The Academy Got Right In The 2000s?
A Look At The Social Media Editors At Big Media Outlets
A Likably Loopy Music Video With Beck And Charlotte Gainsbourg
At 81, Roger Mudd Sez Network Evening News Pretty Much Dead
Sean Connery And Shirley Bassey Reunite For Cartoon About Veternarian Hoping To Rescue A Beaver
"A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation's largest movie chain pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter."
Another Study Suggests Cine-Treats Not Health Food
Stringer Unwinds Sony's New Biz Plan
Should Khan Be Played By A Newcomer In Star Trek 2?
Get The Last Salon Appointment At Marienbad
Jeanne-Claude, 74, Artistic Partner Of Christo
"I Am Not Carl Dreyer And I Should Shut Up": Kristin Thompson On Guillermo Del Toro's Vampyr Commentary Track
AOL Offlines Third Of Workforce, Or 2,500 Employees, Before Time-Warner Spinoff
"Frankly we would have been offended if 'The Death Of Bunny Munro' wasn't shortlisted."
Nick Cave And Philip Roth Square Off Over Bad Sex
Warner Archive To Remaster Some Shaky Early DVD Releases
Werner Herzog, Presently Feted In Thessaloniki, Will Chair Jury At Berlinale
And - Herzog Leads You Through The Bad Lt. Iguana Scene (spoilers)
The Griswolds Offered Opportunity To Sell Out
Goodridge Susses His 2010 Outlook For Non-Studio Awards Contenders
Anselmo Duarte, 89, Filmmaker Was Brazil's Only Cannes Winner
And - From The Preem Of Lula, Son Of Brasil
A Few Motley Musings On "The Festival Effect" And Oscar
Daniel Day-Lewis Sez He Tried To Avoid Dancing In Nine
"Katzenberg sees 3-D movie revolution in scalable chips"
Dry Headline Of Day
Indie Film And Fickle Finance In A Shrinking Pool Of Equity
Pete Howell On Werner Herzog And "Turning The Pig Loose"
Novelist Colum McCann's Rendition Of Man On Wire Tale Gets National Book Award
Pre-Olympics, UK Film Council Pinches Funds 20%, Merges Functions
"We'll probably be showing films on the side of a wall."
Ron Mann's First Film Played Toronto's Carlton; Doc He Distribs To Be On Last Marquee
Oz's Inside Film Awards For Director, Script, Music, Actors, To Samson & Delilah
Casting Directors Searching For Aussie Talent
Oscar Picks Hamish Hamilton To Direct, Known For Rock Concert, MTV Lensing; Also Up For NFL Halftime Gig
"Stay sober, stay conscious and stay to the end."
The Obligations Of A Brit Critic?
"For so many little girls, Edward will always be their first love. They are going to be 80-year-old women in the future that will remember Rob, love Edward Cullen, and remember Twilight. That's kind of awesome."
Catherine Hardwicke On Mothering A Saga
Oscar Shortlists The Doc 15
The Beaches of Agnes
Burma VJ
The Cove
Every Little Step
Facing Ali
Food, Inc.
Garbage Dreams
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Mugabe and the White African
Sergio
Soundtrack for a Revolution
Under Our Skin
Valentino The Last Emperor
Which Way Home
Sept Issue Lost In Mail; Loud Silenced; Public Goes Private; Rude To Crude; Tyson KO'ed; Anvil Dropped; No Love Story For Moore
And - Poland's Particulars
Mother Of Mercy, Is This The End Of Chris Weitz? Suggests New Moon His Penultimate Pie
Murdoch Plays What-If With NBCUniversal
Bad Lt. Inspires Slideshow Of 12 Maybe Trippiest Movie Scenes
Toronto's Slight Box Of An Arthouse, The Carlton, Closes Dec. 6 (great photo)
Ted
Hope's 15 Ways To Show Your Collaborators You Reallllly
Appreciate Them
"Me and my girlfriend have really gotten really into Dirtyrottenwhore, and ThingsThatExciteMe is really good. What about you?"
Vice Profiles David Karp, 23-Year-Old Founder Of Tumblr
Was Garish New Hollywood Life Website Designed By Hilton Perez's Downstairs Neighbor?
"The Absurdity Of Embargoes" In The Modern Moment
Canada: New Haven For World's Exiled Journos?
Cieply On The Crazy Heart Of Jeff Bridges' Oscar Chances
"There's something more mysterious to it, something much darker and more subversive. A satire would try to imitate something and try to ridicule something, and here it doesn't, so I don’t feel comfortable labeling it as a satire. Let's be content with saying it’s hilarious!"
Werner Herzog May Be His Own Best Critic (Or Pitch Artist)
Scott Video-Picks Blazing Saddles
Pirate Bay Docked
Charles Taylor Suggests Anthony Lane May Not Be Good For Film Criticism
Will Lee Daniels March To "Selma"?
Greek Filmmakers Explain Why They're Boycotting 50th Anniversary Edition Of Largest Local Film Fest
More Litigation For ThinkFilm's Bergstein
Nielsen Slices The Movie Internet Buzz Pie
Taking A Stab At The Doc Feature Oscar Shortlist
A Barry Lyndon Maniac And His Ephemera
What's On The Berlinale Shopping List?
Vanity Fair On Daniels And Sidibe
Christmas Carol Holding Better Than Polar Express
Unusual Convocation Of Film Crickets Assemble In Comments Section Of Anne-T's Remarks About New York Film Festival, Foundas And Jones, Including Kenny, Dargis, Taubin, Rizov, Von Busack, Foundas, Jones
Murdoch's Communication Chief Of 11 Years Stepping Down
Ebert Gets Chiding Reply To His Disdain For 3-D
"I plan to eat that muffin."
Gaby Sidibe On Her Immediate Plans
Being C-3PO
What
Do You Do If The Test Audience Says It's Just Not Violent Enough,
Peter Jackson?
When Will The World End? 2012 Or The Day After Tomorrow?
Thom Andersen Revisits Los Angeles Plays Itself As It Plays New York City
"If
everyone reading this blogpost pitches in a couple of quid, we'll
probably end up with enough money to make our very own Cage film."
Nine:
The Music Video
The
Lastest Postering For Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
Helvetica:
The Movie Poster Font
"That's the kind of question that makes me want to take a nap."
Big Cieper Finds New Yorker's Ken Auletta Less Publicly Amusing Than Judd Apatow
When Plymouth Rock Studios Landed On Plymouth Rock's David Kirkpatrick
"Harper
joined the dance ensemble on stage for the finale, clapping along
as a bevy of traditionally clad beauties writhed around him."
Canuck
PM Goes Bollywood
So How About Some Fine Concept Art For Fantastic Mr. Fox From Artist Chris Applehans?
Vampires Concur That Canada Does Not Suck
In Jerusalem, Wim Wenders Advises Against Boycott Of Israeli Cinema
Paul Wendkos, 84, Directed Gidget, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, The Burglar, "The Legend Of Lizzie Borden," "A Woman Called Moses"
Screenwriter Sez New Moon Better Than Twilight
Nation's Largest Gay/Lesbian Newspaper Chain Shuts Down Abruptly
Gannett Newspapers To Distribute One Million Copies Of Oscar Doc Short Smile Pinki
Smarter Than The Average Studio Exec!
Taking The Route Of Easy Rider, 40 Years After Its Passing
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