December 5, 2014
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Unbroken & The Imitation Game Editor Billy Goldenberg

...about mixing comedy and drama, with mixing a human story, a spy thriller, and a human drama with comedic elements. There were similarities in Argo, also, in trying to make the comedy...

January 14, 2015
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A Q&A with James Dever, Military Advisor on American Sniper

...more than 13 years in the Corps under his belt at the time, was assigned by his Colonel to work with Eastwood — whose character, Thomas Highway, is also a gunnery sergeant....

February 6, 2015
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Berlinale 2015: Isabel Coixet’s Nobody Wants the Night

...her companion’s. As a movie that passes the Bechdel Test a few times over — almost all the dialogue is between the two women, while Gabriel Byrne’s Bram, Josephine’s guide, speaks solely...

March 12, 2015
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SXSW 2015 Preview: Women to Watch

...We Live in Public ('09) about Internet visionary Josh Harris. Her latest, Brand: A Second Coming, follows Russell Brand's unlikely transition from bad boy actor and comedian to conscientious objector to media obfuscation, political...

April 17, 2015
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Alex Garland on Building Ex Machina's Perfect Woman

...about a reclusive internet pioneer (Oscar Isaac) who has been experimenting with artificial intelligence. The multi-millionaire invites Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), one of his employees, to a secret facility to test his latest...

June 1, 2015
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Revelations, Winter & the new Power Couple: Inside Game of Thrones "Hardhome"

...the wilding Tormund, a few Crows and a whole bunch of wildings (including the giant Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun) are attacked by an army of the undead. The White Walkers and...

June 10, 2015
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A Look at the Career of Brian Eno, Me and Earl and The Dying Girl's Composer

...during the 1990s, devoting much of his time to working as a solo artist, producer and for-hire composer. (Fun fact: He created the startup sound for Windows 95.) Eno did score Neverwhere...

August 15, 2015
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The New York Film Studio That Helped the Allies Win World War II - Part II

...worked in the dental office; I was the civilian that was hired to work in the dental office here in the building where the medics’ office was. It was a base, so...

September 21, 2015
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Female Directors Shone at the Toronto International Film Festival

...latest, Miss You Already, is an entertaining comedy-drama about contemporary women’s lives. Working from a screenplay by Morwenna Banks, it’s about the longtime friendship between two young women, played by Toni Collette...

October 14, 2015
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Writer/Director James Vanderbilt on Turning Recent History Into Truth

...structure. There always seemed to be something happening 10-15 minutes into the movies, complications, someone would come into the room and say ‘Dr. Jones, we’ve gotta go…there’s this ark.’ So that was...