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Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation
One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and garnered two Oscar nominations. The beautifully photographed movie tells a multi-layered story of a modern-day couple in Tehran who are on the verge of a divorce. The wife wants to... »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came to Los Angeles, the city of cars, to make a film filled with some of the most authentic and exciting car chase sequences seen on the screen in years. »
Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Once he read the book and script for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it was "very simple" for Academy-Award nominated director Stephen Daldry to immediately say yes to directing the film for producer Scott Rudin, who he had worked with on The Hours. The first decision scriptwise was to see the story primarily through... »
Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes tells an origin story that lays the foundation for the mythology of the first Planet of the Apes film, which takes place 3,000 years in the future. The success of the current film hinges on the believability of the main character, Caesar, a chimpanzee played by a... »
Director J.C. Chandor Makes an Auspicious Debut with Margin Call
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during the first 24-hours of the 2008 financial crisis. Writer/director J.C. Chandor’s enthralling first feature is a stark portrayal of the financial industry and its denizens as they confront the decisions... »
Brazil’s Entry for Best Foreign Film – Jose Padilha’s Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is Brazil’s official entry in this year’s competition for the best foreign film Oscar. The often-violent action movie has a reality-based and politically explosive plot – an insider’s pursuit and exposure of deep-seated corruption in the top ranks of the country’s police and government. It has become Brazil’s all-time... »
Director Dee Rees Makes a Forceful Debut With Pariah
Talking or reading about the film, Pariah, you immediately learn the movie is about a 17 year-old lesbian. She hangs out at a lesbian nightclub, she has lesbian girlfriends, she has trouble with her parents when they suspect she’s a lesbian and she struggles inwardly with coming out as… a lesbian. Unless you are... »
New Cronenberg Film Probes the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Director David Cronenberg describes his ambitious and audacious new film, A Dangerous Method, about the birth of psychoanalysis in the early part of the 20th century, as an “intellectual action movie.” The real-life story revolves around the complex personal interaction of psychiatry’s pioneering practitioners, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, played by Vigo Mortensen... »
Carlos Saldanha Captures the Brazilian Vibe for Rio
Carlos Saldanha’s charming animated film Rio tells the story of Blu – a domesticated Macaw who never learned to fly, enjoying a sheltered life with his owner Linda in Minnesota. Blu and Linda think he’s the last of his kind, but when they learn about another macaw who lives in Rio de Janeiro, they... »
Scorsese Hails His Below-the-Line Collaborators for the Enchanting Hugo
A renowned student of film history and craftsmanship, director Martin Scorsese was eager to acknowledge his many collaborators, both present and in name only, for his new fantasy film, Hugo at a special event in Los Angeles on Nov. 5. Flanked by cinematographer Robert Richardson, composer Howard Shore, production designer Dante Ferretti, editor... »
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Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A SeparationJanuary 2012 | By Jack Egan
One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »