Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version evokes memories of Woody Allen + Paul Mazursky.
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Frank and Ava movie interview: Frank Sinatra portrayer Rico Simonini discusses the indie drama about singer’s turbulent marriage with Ava Gardner.
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Watch On the Road online at SundanceNow (image: Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund) On the Road, Walter Salles’ film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical novel, is now available on…
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On the Road with Kristen Stewart. Shot in late 2010, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in spring 2012, and re-edited for the American market a few months later, Walter…
On the Road movie trailer UK. Aug. 22: Walter Salles’ On the Road, a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ’50s novel, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2012, where it…
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Robert Pattinson: Cosmopolis movie July 11 update: Robert Pattinson Cosmopolis movie trailer HD. This US Cosmopolis trailer doesn’t start with Robert Pattinson saying “I wanna a haircut.” (Please scroll down.)…
Robert Pattinson news: Eclectic film projects June 26 update: In Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami, a movie adaptation (written by Rachelle Bennette) of Guy de Maupassant’s 19th-century novel,…
Carlos Reichenbach: The Forbidden Paradise / O Paraíso Proibido. Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer perhaps best known for his sex comedies and dramas of the 1970s and early 1980s,…
Cannes Film Festival movie review: In Variety, Justin Chang says the following about Walter Salles’ On the Road, a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel starring Garrett Hedlund (Dean…
On the Road interview: cast members Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley March 21 update: “It’s interesting to play characters that have existed,” says Kristen Stewart in an On the…
Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be…
On the Road poster. The trailer for Walter Salles’ much anticipated On the Road has been officially released online, on the film’s Facebook page. If you get it to work,…
Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, The Host ‘The Host’ trailer “The Earth is at peace. There are no wars. There’s no hunger,” intones Saoirse Ronan in The Host‘s teaser trailer (see…
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Swampland race relations: Old indie mixes reactionary ideas about interracial love with vengeance and voodoo in tragic actress’ final little-seen film.
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Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady with Anthony Head. The most curious thing about Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist winning the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Film and Best Director…
Kristen Stewart On the Road Marylou: Dancing with Garrett Hedlund. Down memory lane: Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart ‘On the Road’ images At the time best known as The Twilight…
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PGA Awards 2013 winners Update: Ben Affleck’s Argo wins Theatrical Motion Picture PGA Award. Argo producer Ben Affleck tells Steve Pond “I had totally convinced myself they were going to…
Featuring a fantastic supporting cast (Mia Farrow, Donna Murphy and others), Todd Solondz’s deadpan tragicomedy Dark Horse depicts a jerk’s life.
Limousine rider Juliette Binoche. Cosmopolis reviews Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is missing a scene found in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel: a 300-person orgy at a Manhattan intersection. But…
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Ra’anan Alexandrovicz’s The Law in These Parts Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a young girl growing up in Louisiana (to be released by Fox Searchlight)…