May 23, 2013
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Steven Soderbergh Through the Looking Glass: Behind the Candelabra

...in 2011, starting with Contagion and carrying on with Magic Mike, Side Effects and now, Behind the Candelabra. Discussions of Soderbergh’s directorial career often employ wishy-washy labels—“chameleon”, “craftsman”—that speak to a sense of instability...

June 17, 2013
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Toronto & Atlanta: Hollywood’s Chameleon Cities

...fjords. “I received a funny email recently, a guy said ‘Send me a picture of your fjords,’” Cuthbert laughs. “The port of Savannah is beautiful, but it’s not very fjordish.” [royalslider id="13"]...

June 18, 2013
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5 Pre-Ordained Flops That Defied the Odds & Soared

...themselves to make similarly sub-par sinking-ship puns. After its release, however, Titanic tied Ben-Hur for most Oscars earned by a single movie. (Oh, and it also made roughly $2.2 billion internationally.)  ...

August 20, 2013
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The World’s End: What's Behind our Apocalypse Obsession?

...was diagnosed with breast cancer (she’s fine now). Dr. Schlozman watched George Romero’s seminal 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead. “I was thinking, ‘They’re sick. They’re not just ghouls stumbling...

October 10, 2013
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Fighting Cancer With Music & Film: The Incredible Documentary No Evidence of Disease

...like that music, who’s that by?’ And then they hear it’s by N.E.D., ‘What’s N.E.D.? No evidence of disease? What does that mean?’ So to take it to the next level so...

December 24, 2013
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“My Muse”: Directors & Actors Who Keep Working Together—Part I

...in the below clip.     Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman Movies (5): Hard Eight (1996); Boogie Nights (1997); Magnolia (1999); Punch-Drunk Love (2002); The Master (2012) Key to...

February 5, 2014
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Director Jehane Noujaim on her Oscar Nominated Doc The Square

...would have said ‘you’re nuts.’ But there’s an incredible transformation that goes on when you’re standing in a square with people that are putting everything on the line: their families, their lives,...

February 14, 2014
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The Movies Behind the Study That Finds Movies Might Save Your Relationship

...Gosling), Husbands and Wives (starring Woody Allen and Mia Farrow—enough said), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (raising questions about gin, what gin does to people, why gin does that, and what, exactly, is in gin that makes...

June 13, 2014
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So You Graduated Film School, Now What? A Recent Film Grad Explains

...help. Reading Tina Fey's "BossyPants" or taking James Franco's screenwriting class on Skillshare.com (click here) are great ways to stay a film student long after you've graduated. You can do this, so long as...

July 24, 2014
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Comic-Con 2014: A Snapshot of Films, Panels & Events

...(Evil Ernie), Roger Barr (I-Mockery), Mike Carlson (Conan), Aaron Sparrow (Darkwing Duck), and celebrity guests! Friday, July 25 10:00am – 11:00am Star Wars Origami (Self-explanatory.) 1:00pm – 1:25pm There's an Octopus in...