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LFF: Time To Grow Up
filmexperience.blogspot.com - 10/27/2009
LFF: Time To Grow Up
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Dave here, still at the LONDON FILM FESTIVAL, and apologising profusely for his absence - it's been a busy few days of film, and having an hour staring at Julianne Moore and ten seconds staring at Eva Green. (Both are as stunning as you've been led to expect.) There have been some big names and ...
Exclusive: Precious Director Lee Daniels
comingsoon.net - 10/30/2009
Exclusive: Precious Director Lee Daniels
— comingsoon.net — For many years, Lee Daniels was best known as the producer of Monster's Ball , the tough... drama that earned actress Halle Berry her Oscar, followed by the equally controversial The Woodsman starring Kevin Bacon. After making his directorial debut with ... (more) Exclusive: Precious Director Lee Daniels

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Stale Popcorn:  Tyler Perry, "The Colour Yellow" and Precious

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Tyler Perry, "The Colour Yellow" and Precious
Stale Popcorn — ... would have received a major international release if it weren't so critically acclaimed. It's nice knowing that it will be seen theatrically by audiences outside of film festivals. I wonder how well Mo'Nique gets dubbed into Chinese or Spanish. It is not comforting to see the foreign marketing take such a step down from the American work. The posters being used in America are all works of art (see them here) and a blandly photoshopped movie still (yellow is still in, see the original photo) isn't anywhere near as classy. ...

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