Though Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Un Prophete) led all films with six European Film Award nominations, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) prevailed in the top prizes just as it did at Cannes earlier this year.
In addition to A Prophet, The White Ribbon beat out Andrea Arnold’s terrific Fish Tank, Tomas Alfredson’s Let [...]
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Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has signed on to direct Peter Morgan’s adaptation of John le Carre’s novel Tinker, Tailer, Solder, Spy.
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Matt Reeves talks to the LA Times about his planned remake of Let the Right One In
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O Movies You May Have Missed column, how I have neglected you.
This column has been MIA for a few weeks, but here’s a passel of recent DVD releases of movies that may have bypassed your local multiplex including those coming this Tuesday.
Coming April 5
I.O.U.S.A. *** 1/2
From the director of Wordplay, this documentary is a sobering [...]
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Though one of its central characters turns out to be a vampire, Sweden’s Let the Right One In is not quite a horror film. Working from the best selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, director Tomas Alfredson is more interested in the story’s central relationship between a troubled 12-year-old boy and the strange girl who [...]
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It’s all about the limited releases this week, but let’s get the wide releases out of the way first.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Being a Disney film, I’m guessing no one ends up passed out in the back of a rented limo on prom night with her dress pulled up over her head and [...]
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Yes it’s a Swedish movie with a vampire, but more than anything Let the Right One In is a tender and surprisingly sweet coming of age tale.
It’s about a little boy who is bullied at school and though it’s true that the little girl who moves in next door might be a vampire, the supernatural elements [...]
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Forget about Twilight, here’s a trailer for a Swedish film about adolescent vampires called Let the Right One In that has been lighting up the Internet as it makes it way along the festival circuit. Word on this one has been very positive.
I missed it when it played at LAFF, but I’ll be seeing it [...]
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