Variety’s got the details on what is being called a “groundbreaking and substantial” deal between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers giving rise to hopes that a deal with the Writers Guild of America will follow.
Most importantly, the DGA was able to reach agreement with the AMPTP [...]

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I mention these mainly because Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution and Lee Chang-Dong’s Secret Sunshine received a bunch of nominations and neither is getting the press or awards attention they deserve in the United States. 
For the 2nd Annual Asian Film Awards, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society chose nominees in 12 categories honoring outstanding achievement in feature-length fiction films [...]

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Still trying to atone for his “disability porn” crack regarding The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, LA Weekly’s Scott Foundas conducts a rare interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, director of There Will Be Blood
Noting that Anderson’s film is “the most discussed, exuberantly praised American movie in recent memory,” Foundas says “it is the sort of [...]

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Manhattan gets head in the new monster movie Cloverfield
This week we’ve got one good wide release, one good expansion, a decent re-release and a couple of interesting limited releases. First, here’s what’s opening wide:

Cloverfield. 9 years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a radioactive fire breathing, 400-foot tall, walking metaphor [...]

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