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Foreign Film Oscar Hopefuls

October 1, 2007 Rich Drees

Today is the deadline for countries to submit their nominations to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Feature Film Oscar. According to the Academy’s rules, “a [click for more]

NYFF Review: SECRET SUNSHINE

September 30, 2007 Rich Drees

Secret Sunshine is an emotional tour de force, taking its audience to the heart of a mother’s worst fear and then following her ensuing descent into a vortex of depression, denial and ultimately, madness. Recently [click for more]

KARATE KID Remake On The Way

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

It looks like producer Jerry Weintraub is going back to the mat, overseeing a remake of the 1984 coming-of-age-while-kickin’-ass film The Karate Kid. Weintraub, who produced the original as well as its three sequels, is [click for more]

NYFF Review: BLADE RUNNER- THE FINAL CUT

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Although it confused critics and audiences in its initial 1982 release, Ridley Scott’s science-fiction noir Blade Runner remains, a quarter of a century later, not only one of the most important films in the director’s [click for more]

NYFF Review: THE ORPHANAGE

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

While the Japanese have certainly overworked the spooky-ghost child meme for all it is worth over the last several years, there is still power in the tragic notion of a life full of potential being [click for more]

NYFF Review: 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s film 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days is a stark and dark look at life in 1980s communist-controlled Romania, a look more chilling than any horror film, as it is [click for more]

NYFF Review: THE DARJEELING LIMITED

September 27, 2007 Rich Drees

Director Wes Anderson seems to like putting dysfunctional family units into confined spaces and then sitting back to see what happens. The characters don’t have to be blood related, as are the inhabitants of the [click for more]

Robb Moves From TERABITHIA To WITCH MOUNTAIN

September 26, 2007 Rich Drees

AnnaSophia Robb, last seen in the under-appreciated Bridge To Terabithia, will be joining Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for the Disney film Witch Mountain, which director Andy Fickman is claiming isn’t a remake of the 1975 [click for more]

Washington And Scott Plan On TAKING PELHAM ONE TWO THREE

September 23, 2007 Rich Drees

Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott are reportedly gearing up for their fourth collaboration, a remake of the 1974 thriller The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three, according to Entertainment Weekly. Washington would star as [click for more]

Trailer Park: SOUTHLAND TALES

September 23, 2007 Rich Drees

Last week, we gave you a glimpse of Kevin Smith in Richard Kelly’s near-future social satire Southland Tales. Today, we give you the film’s trailer. If you don’t know that much about the film’s plot [click for more]