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REVIEW | Outside Men: Christopher Quinn's "God Grew Tired of Us"

There's a reason why a film like Christopher Quinn's impassioned and affecting "God Grew Tired of Us" is designed to appeal to a more populist audience, and why, despite all of its pain and heartache, it needs to be couched in uplift. It's simply a story of which far too many Westerners have remaine...

A Weekend with Whitaker

The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host a two-day event at its Walter Reade Theater later this month saluting acclaimed actor Forest Whitaker, who has been in the spotlight recently for this latest film, "The Last King of Scotland." The likely Oscar nominee will be saluted at Lincoln Center jus...

'Epic Movie.' Ugh.

iPhone. Inside Steve's Mind.

NY Critics Toast the Best of '06

The New York Film Critics Circle saluted their favorite films of the year during their annual awards event, this year a cocktail party and dessert affair at The Supper Club in Midtown. indieWIRE was on hand for the festivities, capturing a couple of indieWIRE: Video clips, including "Half Nelson" filmmaker Ryan Fleck receiving his prize from star Ryan Gosling (clip via YouTube, linked below) and "The Departed" director Martin Scorsese accepting his best director award from Leonardo DiCaprio (clip via YouTube, linked below). indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez offers some personal highlights and thoughts on his personal blog, while Stu VanAirsdale r...

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The 2007 Sarasota Film Festival Call For Entries

Essentially Woody: Interiors

Considered a failure when it was first released as Woody Allen's first "serious" movie and widely derided as an imitation of Ingmar Bergman, Interiors is an ambiguous portrait of a familiar but rarely dramatized situation: a middle-aged father leaving his wife for another woman when his children are grown. The very American subject matter is quite far from Bergman's violent Swedish eroticism, though the off-putting, arch dialogue sometimes sounds like Ingmar. Allen sketches in the clubby alliances of a family, the on-the-surface resentments, and the longing we feel for the one family member who ignores us; all the detailed self-analysis is ch...

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