The domestic trailer for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) plus a few thoughts from the AFI Fest screening
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A look at an AFI Fest entrant, Argentina’s official foreign language Oscar submission and a recent Sony Pictures Classic pickup all at once: The Secret in Their Eyes
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The innaugural AFI New Lights competition prize awarded to first and second time filmmakers went to Andrea Arnold’s terrific Fish Tank and Javier Rebello’s strange but fascinating Woman Without a Piano.
Arnold’s film which won the Prix du Jury at Cannes is a stark and grim portrait of a 15-year-old girl growing up fatherless in a [...]
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The latest from Terry Gilliam starring Heath Ledger and Christopher Plummer screens tonight at AFI Fest. It’s imperfect, but it’s Gilliam’s best film in a long long time and should please fans of the man’s amazing imagination.
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AFI Fest reviews of FANTASTIC MR. FOX and EVERYONE ELSE
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Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray on the red carpet
outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theater for the North American premiere
of Fantastic Mr. Fox at 2009 AFI Fest. (REUTERS/Fred Prouser)
Before introducing filmmaker Wes Anderson last night to kick off the 23rd Annual AFI Fest, AFI President and CEO Bob Gazzale evoked the intertwined history of Hollywood [...]
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With the pending release of the Belgian animated A TOWN CALLED PANIC, will the Best Animated Feature category get bumped from three to five?
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The complete AFI Fest 2009 Schedule ordered by date and time with links to the appropriate movie page.
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Free tickets to the 23rd Annual AFI Fest beginning today! See Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Road, A Single Man, Precious and more.
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The complete lineup for AFI Fest 2009 (10/30 – 11/7) was released today.
Earlier announcements pegged the North American premiere of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox as the opening night film, plus gala screenings of Robert De Niro’s Everybody’s Fine, and Lee Daniel’s much-buzzed Sundance favorite Precious.
Today’s release includes the US premiere of Terry Gilliam’s The [...]
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