Elsa Zylberstein and Kristin Scott Thomas in I’ve Loved You So Long
I haven’t rolled out the Movies You May Have Missed DVD column in over a month. There were a couple of empty weeks in there and a couple of others where I was simply out of the habit. Here then is a whole month [...]

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One of the more interesting film festivals of the year, the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, begins its 9-day run on March 16. You can get the full lineup with blurbage at the SXSW website. Year in and year out, the programmers for the Austin-based SXSW roll out a terrific roster of indie [...]

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This week’s edition of Production Notes stars Naomi Watts, Freida Pinto, Antonio Banderas, Woody Allen, John Cusack, Sean Penn, Michel Gondry, Melissa Leo, Cate Blanchett and Samuel L. Jackson. As always, it’s 100% Varietese free.
Watts, Pinto and Banderas want to give you a Woody. Woody Allen’s lastest as-yet untitled project started getting more interesting two [...]

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Harrison Ford in Crossing Over
In the nearly two years we’ve been rolling out the Weekend Forecast there have been some wretched line-ups, but I think this one might take the prize for the worst one yet.

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. When I find myself smirking at how stupid and empty tweens are these days, [...]

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The teaser trailer for Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz’s latest collaboration has been lurking around the Internet for about a week, but better late than never, right?

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Trouble the Water on the red carpet.
I love how the cameras just can’t help cutting away to Miley friggin’ Cyrus.
Though it lost the Oscar on Sunday night to Man on Wire, filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin and subjects Kimberly and Scott Roberts can be proud that the world was introduced to their terrific documentary [...]

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Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
No, not The Dark Knight, which tonight sleeps on a mattress lovingly manufactured from thousands of hundred dollar bills, each one carefully hand-stressed and softened by unemployed Wall Street bankers, then sewn together using thread from genetically enhanced silkworms and finally stuffed by more hundred dollar bills individually [...]

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This seems to take forever to load before it streams properly and the quality isn’t great, but it’s better than the one I found on YouTube. As always with Trailer Addict, it works best if you hit play, then press pause and wait for the meter to fill up before playing:

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It felt like a fairly predictable year so my 18/24 in the Oscar polling is nothing to write home about. I stiffed all the short categories (maybe I should’ve at least read the synopses if I wasn’t going to actually see the shorts?) and I missed score, foreign film and sound editing. I got the [...]

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Ok, it’s not morning anymore, but I’m in a Sunday Morning Coming Down kinda mood so work with me here.
Today is the biggest day of the year in Cinetopia – the day when one movie of hundreds is crowned The Best of the Year. That’s right, the 2008 Muriel for Best Picture is being awarded [...]

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