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In Her Own Words: Nancy Buirski Shares a Scene from 'The Loving Story'
Just in time for Valentine's Day, filmmaker Nancy Buirski shares a scene from her moving documentary, "The Loving Story," a story of enduring love that led to a landmark Civil Right's case. The film debuts on HBO today, during Black History Month.
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Now and Then: Dunham's 'Tiny Furniture' Bodes Well for HBO's 'Girls'
Midway through "Tiny Furniture," writer-director-star Lena Dunham launches into a monologue — a tantrum, really — that smacks of a tin ear. The plaintive wails seem ginned up for "dramatic effect," though the real effect is to undercut the film's poignant understanding of how scary "coming-of-age" s...
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Trailer Watch: Hemingway and Gellhorn
I seriously have not been this excited about a Nicole Kidman movie in a long time. Based on the voice over it should be named Gellhorn and Hemingway but as is typical with women in history, she seems to have disappeared from our consciousness and he is, well...Hemingway.
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Teaser Watch: Phil Kaufman's 'Hemingway & Gellhorn'
Check out this HBO Films teaser promo reel for biopic "Hemingway & Gellhorn" (May 2012) about the tempestuous romance between war journalists Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, directed by Phil Kaufman, yet another disenfranchised Hollywood filmmaker turning to HBO.
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Can Girls Be a Game Changer?
I found this brief behind the scenes one minute and forty two second piece from the upcoming HBO series Girls created by Lena Dunham and after I watched it I could not help but think that this show could be a game changer.
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Trailer Watch: Game Change
This movie looks so much better than the book and I really loved the book. Julianne Moore is totally rocking as Sarah Palin. Love it!
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Michael Mann & David Milch's 'Luck' Renewed For Second Season
Well, damn that was fast. And we certainly had our doubts. As we outlined in our review of the first season of "Luck," the HBO horse racing world drama starts off pretty slow, can be frustratingly obtuse at times and is stuffed to bursting with characters and subplots, but by the end of the season i...
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MATT ZOLLER SEITZ RECAP: LUCK: If Wishes Were Horses ...
Before we delve into HBO's "Luck," I need to get some housekeeping out of the way. I wrote about it in a very general way for New York magazine, then asked to recap the first season for Vulture. "Luck" is a rare TV drama that benefits from wonky auteurist scrutiny, and that's how I'm going to approa...
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Review: HBO, David Milch and Michael Mann's 'Luck' Pilot Promises More than It Delivers
"Luck" is a world that David Milch knows well. His self-described addiction to the track is legendary, both as a prodigious better and an owner. He once had a horse headed for the Derby who, like a horse in the pilot, broke down (in life, after the Louisville plane tickets had been booked).
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Review: Michael Mann & David Milch's 'Luck' Is Slow Out Of The Gate, But Eventually Builds Into A Gallop
The above quote, from a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, illustrates one of the fundamental frustrations in watching "Luck," the new horse racing world drama on HBO. Birthed by Michael Mann and David Milch ("Deadwood," "NYPD Blue"), their creative clashes during the production are no sec...
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