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Diagramming The Interior Space Of Amour

“The silver lining that has taken us by surprise has been the conversation this film has opened up about mental illness.”

“Because it had so many different elements to it, it wasn’t the easiest sell in the world, like a lot of big movies are.”
At $571 Million Worldwide, The Most Successful Best Picture Nominee Is Life Of Pi

“The idea was not to make an Israeli-Palestinian project. Money came from many different places.”
5 Broken Cameras Co-Directors Find Media Descriptions Of Their Documentary Misleading

Art Of The Title Credits ParaNorman

What If The Middle Of Life Of Pi Had Been Silent?

Lincoln On “60 Minutes” 11’31 vid; extras

Scripter Scripts Argo

Mark Boal And Black Hawk Down‘s Bowden Talk CIA And Zero Dark Thirty With Diane Sawyer

Illegal Copies Of Zero Dark Thirty Popular In Pakistan vid

“It’s about producers.”
Producers Guild Picks Argo, Sugar Man

O’Hehir And Haneke Make Sweet Amour

Mel Brooks Says Django May Shotgun Interest In Blazing Saddles Musical

“Not everyone accepts that overexposure is sufficient to destroy evil: some argue that “——” is too robust to be so easily disposed of.”
ThiNkiNg ON DjaNgo‘s LaNguage

FP On The Internal CIA Account Of How The Argo Rescue Went Down

“Quvenzhané utters an incredible scream in Beasts, a cry like an elemental force of nature, and if that cry echoes through the Dolby Theater on February 24, it will be a moment for history.”
Ebert Oscars

O’Hehir Stirs The Hummus Over Bigelow Oscar Rebuff

Kathryn Bigelow’s Fantastic Tribute To At Least 5 Other Women Behind Zero Dark Thirty In Her NBR Award Speech

“What hasn’t been said is that Maya’s the archetype of a government figure we know; the kind of driven, difficult person who pushed an organization. With skin that looks porcelain enough to shatter, Maya isn’t physically imposing. But she’s all intensity—screaming at her boss and essentially blackmailing him into giving her what she wants, living in the office, being a total pill. There’s scant backstory about her life because her life is getting bin Laden. She’s prescient and a pain in the ass, which makes her a perfect Washington character.”

How Zero Dark Thirty‘s TV Spots Show It Both As Movie And As Film

Argo, Les  Misérables, Life Of Pi, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty
BAFTA Noms Tally Lincoln 10; Les Misérables, Life of Pi 9 Each; Skyfall, 8; Argo 7; Anna Karenina 6; Five Each For Django, Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln Tops The Critics Awards Scoreboard

The International Dimension Of Life Of Pi‘s $400 Million Box Office

Vancouver Film Critics Go Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow, Chastain, Boal
And - A New Award Named For Local Film “Community Builder” Ian Caddell, Who Died In November

Alliance Of Women Film Journalists Play Take 5 For Zero Dark Thirty

“Haneke is to be praised and admired for filming—so beautifully and so truthfully—straight down into the abyss, and for inviting us to take a long hard look at what’s there.”
Francine Prose On Amour

Visual Effects Society’s 11th Annual Awards Nominees Led By Hobbit, Avengers, Life Of Pi