theenvelope.latimes.com - 10/26/2009
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It was launched in the Rose Garden by President Lyndon B. Johnson to advance and preserve the art of the moving image. For decades, the American Film Institute thrived doing just that. Now, like almost every other nonprofit organization knocked sideways by the recession, AFI finds itself having ...
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10/26 Oscarweb Round-up
In Contention —
... • Tom O’Neil offers up his list of frontrunning Best Picture contenders. [Gold Derby]
• Jacko collaborators respond to “This Is It.” [CNN]
• Anthony Breznican, meanwhile, gets some face time with the film’s director, Kenny Ortega. [USA Today]
• Five great “making of” movies. [Daily Telegraph]
• John Horn previews AFI Fest. [The Envelope]
• Dave Itzkoff chats up “Antichrist” ...
cinemadaily | AFI Fest Launches…Free!
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AFI Fest kicked off its totally free, 23rd edition on Friday in Los Angeles. “Unlike many other leading film festivals, AFI Fest, now in its 23rd year, is not interested in an onslaught of glitzy, star-filled premieres,” writes the LA Times’ John Horn . “Film distributors and sales agents do not converge on the festival to strike rich deals as they do at Sundance, Toronto and Cannes. And while AFI Fest (which is co-sponsored by The Times) has a handful of gala screenings—Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man,’ Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ and Wes Anderson’s ...
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