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To coincide with the selection of a new group of filmmakers for Africa First, David Parkinson gives the lowdown on Nigerian cinema, which is the continent's most vibrant and prolific film industry. Read More »
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Jason London
One of the most influential figures of the 20th century is finally getting his due. The Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti (aka Fela), who is currently being celebrated in a hit Broadway show Fela!, will also be brought to the screen by English artist and filmmaker Steve ...
Other
In 1978, two very different Hollywood films for tackled the previously taboo subject of Vietnam: Hal Ashby's Coming Home (released in February '78) and Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, which debuted on December 8, 1978. Read More »
Drama
The Deer Hunter
In the winter of 1960, a new vision of horror came to American cinemas from Britain. The Village of the Damned tells the story of a small English village in which all the women are mysteriously pregnant. Read More »
Horror
MGM
The award season is starting its engine. Today the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association released their list (the first of many area critic lists to come). Up in The Air soared to Best Film. But we’re happy to say that Focus’ Sin Nombre won for best Foreign Film. To get the.... ...
Comedy
Up In the Air
Thomas J. McLean in The Hollywood Reporter looks at how this year marks a growing appreciation for stop-motion animation. Not only are films like Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox making strong showings, but other animators, like Shane Acker, the director of 9, acknowledges a fondness for ...
Animation
Coraline
Thomas Jane
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Entertainment Weekly came out with their Best of the Decade list, which ranks films, books, videos, TV, Entertainment, and the such. Nice to see two Focus films made Top Ten Movie list. Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation came in at number 9 and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain was at number ...
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The List
The Ten
Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain
Posted 2009-12-07 02:31:52 by Jenna Bass It's 12.20 and I'm crying in the kitchen. The NFVF has exceeded it's budget and cannot give me a cent towards going to Sundance or Berlin.
It never ends.
Trying now to rationally scheme and plan, and hear myself think above the din of.... Read ...
Other
Sundance Film Festival
On December 6, 1990, writer-director Tim Burton nervously opened the lid on his most personal film yet, Edward Scisshorhands, as the movie premiered in Los Angeles. Read More »
Action
Tim Burton
Edward Norton
Johnny Depp
Batman
When Charade, director Stanley Donen’s distinctly Hitchcockian Euro thriller starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, was released on December 5, 1963, it represented the end of a very long road scriptwriter Peter Stone had taken to bring his work to the big screen. Read More »
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Hugh Grant
Audrey Hepburn
Chef Cody Hogan picks the five films that inspired him to cook for a living. Read More »
Other
Diablo Cody
P.J. Hogan
Nearly 40 years after Alfred Hitchcock released his seminal horror film Psycho, Gus Van Sant offered a remake that caused as much controversy as the first one, albeit in a different way. Read More »
Drama
Gus Van Sant
Posted 2009-12-04 13:58:01 by Jenna Bass
Now see my problem is I had a whole blog post worked out: I was going to describe in witty, self-deprecating irony, the agony of waiting, how one pushes this aside and gets on with things. How one's life goes on. The blog would start.... Read ...
Other
Sundance Film Festival
Apologies to all Ken Russell fans for the pun in the title, but it seems that everyone who makes a living writing about film is hammering out a list of their favorite films of 2009, or the decade, or somesuch variation on one of the above.
At his indieWIRE blog, the estimable Tom Hall ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
The "Urban Chef" and culinary mastermind behind London's Konstam at the Prince Albert chooses five(-ish) mouth-watering movies. Read More »
Other
Oliver Stone
Tommy Lee Jones
Perhaps not coincidentally, cinema’s premiere critic of bourgeois politics was raised in an affluent and comfortable life. Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris, the second of four children, to a respected physician with his own clinic and a mother whose family had strong banking interests. Read ...
Other
Jean Reno
It's been a good year for animation, and now it's a very good year for Henry Selick's 3-D stop-motion fantasy Coraline. The Annies are the prizes handed out by the International Animated Film Socieity each year. Dave McNary at Variety gives a full listing of all the nominations but.... Read ...
Animation
Coraline
It's been a good year for animation, and now it's a very good year for Henry Selick's 3-D stop-motion fantasy Coraline. The Annies are the prizes handed out by the International Animated Film Socieity each year. Dave McNary at Variety gives a full listing of all the nominations but.... Read ...
Animation
Coraline
On this day in 1945, director Penelope Spheeris was born in New Orleans. Read More »
Comedy
Penelope Cruz
Variety is reporting some exciting casting news on Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, the writer-director's upcoming project for Focus Features. It was announced before that Ben Stiller would be playing the eponymous lead in the movie with mumblecore muse Greta Gerwig as his love interest, but now it ...
