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The 2013 Cannes Review Report: 'The Bling Ring'

Source: Indie Wire

rounds up each day's notable premieres, along with a sampling of their reviews and tweets from the south of France. Here's the reaction to "The Bling Ring," director Sofia Coppola's true crime film about the ...
Full article at: Indie Wire  More like this  5 days ago, 7:13am CDT

White in America

Source: The Huffington Post

Okay. So, a few years back when Soledad O'Brien did her series "Black In America," I was working with my comedy troupe Shoot The Messenger on Wake Up World , our off-off-Broadway satirical morning show. The premise was we wer ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post  More like this  5 days ago, 6:52am CDT

Cannes Review: Ari Folman's Part-Animated 'The Congress' Is Overstuffed And Overwritten, But Sort Of Fascinating

Source: Indie Wire

Based on the novel "The Futurological Congress" by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, the film itself deviates from and adds to the source novel, tailoring the material both to the futuro-Hollywood setting and most overtly, to Robin Wright, for whom Folman w ...
Full article at: Indie Wire  More like this  5 days ago, 6:21am CDT

The Great Gatsby: 20th Century Ecclesiastes

Source: The Christian Post

Centering around intrigue, law-breaking, and marital infidelity, the tale, set amid the corruption of the 1920s into the early 20th Century, features a stunning biblical theme – the self-destruction which follows lewd drunk ...
Full article at: The Christian Post  More like this  5 days ago, 8:06pm CDT

Unintentionally Funny Comments On Ellie Kemper's Satire Piece On Men Not Being Funny

Source: Gothamist

"Made an account just to say this: Really poor concept for an article. So you're telling me that a woman doesn't usually find men funny? You mean like how the entire history of popular comedy has been complet ...
Full article at: Gothamist  More like this  5 days ago, 5:49pm CDT

Film Shorts

Source: The Portland Mercury

QDOC: PORTLAND QUEER DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL Festival runs from Thurs May 16-Sun May 19 at the Kennedy School and Bagdad Theater. For more info, see Film, this issue. Not all films were reviewed; for a complete festival lineup a ...
Full article at: The Portland Mercury  More like this  5 days ago, 5:37pm CDT

A class act: Will Adamsdale satirises the angst-ridden middle classes in his surreal new show

Source: The Independent

"I think that's the guy who sold me my flat," says Will Adamsdale, peering through the window of Foxtons in Angel, north London. It's a fitting place to start, as it turns out. The comedian/actor/theatremaker – he still d ...
Full article at: The Independent  More like this  5 days ago, 2:57pm CDT

At Cinematique - A

Source: Wilmington Star-News

Gael Garcia Bernal stars in ‘No,’ about an Argentinian man who goes up against the oppressive Pinochet regime. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Let us gaze in awe upon the microwave. One of the clever motifs in the witty, politic ...
Full article at: Wilmington Star-News  More like this  5 days ago, 2:33pm CDT

Japanese Literature in English [New Cool Things, Part III]

Source: Three Percent

Another favorite translator—Allison Powell—has just launched a website that plays to all of my databasing and list making impulses. japanese literature in english is a searchable database that compiles all literary ...
Full article at: Three Percent  More like this  5 days ago, 2:32pm CDT

Ben on Film - Harryhausen inspired Spielberg, Cameron, Lucas

Source: Wilmington Star-News

The special effects in films like "Iron Man 3" are largely computer-generated. Harryhausen was the master of stop-motion animation: with a miniature model figure of rubber or clay, taking one frame at a time and slightly re-adjusting the figure b ...
Full article at: Wilmington Star-News  More like this  5 days ago, 2:27pm CDT


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