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Now and Then: Obituary for 'The Big C,' Starring Luminous Laura Linney
Cathy Jamison was a brave bitch. Through four seasons of Showtime's "The Big C," which ended its run Monday, she suffered the indignities of metastatic melanoma, chemotherapy, brain tumors, hospice, and bad insurance, yet remained steadfast in her belief that "surviving" and "living" do not necessar...
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Cannes: Asghar Farhadi On Why He Still Feels Censored as a Filmmaker Despite Making 'The Past' in France and Not in Iran
Even before it screened this morning for press at Cannes, Asghar Farhadi's anticipated French-language follow up to his Oscar-winning foreign smash "A Separation" had been touted by many here as a top contender for the Palme d'Or given the director's track record and a story that calls to mind many ...
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Watch: New Scene from 'Before Midnight' Asks 'What Would You Change About Me?'
On May 24, 2013, the wait will be over and the sometimes-on-sometimes-off-but-always-passionate relationship between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) will return to the big screen.
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Now and Then: In Two 'Steel Magnolias,' the Times Are Not A-Changin'
The first thing one notices about "Steel Magnolias" (Herbert Ross, 1989) is the hair. Truvy's Beauty Shop overflows with tight-rolled pastel curlers and foot-high teases, held in place by enough hairspray to commit arson -- a style so far out of fashion it seems historical, as rococo as Marie Antoin...
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Watch: The Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Gets a Red Band Trailer Ahead of Its Cannes Debut
Ahead of its Cannes debut next week, CBS Films has just released a new red band trailer for their Oscar hopeful "Inside Llewyn Davis," written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Typically movies get red band trailers to showcase extreme violence or lewd profanity found in comedies like "The Hangov...
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The Weinstein Company Gunning for Oscar With New 'Fruitvale Station' Poster
Ahead of its debut in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section later this month, The Weinstein Company has released the first poster for "Fruitvale Station" (formerly titled "Fruitvale"), beginning the first stages of an assumed Oscar push for the film.
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Julianne Moore On Playing a Troubled Rock Star in 'What Maisie Knew' and Why Acting Doesn't Scare Her
Julianne Moore has played her fair share of troubled mothers over the course of her incredibly prolific and illustrious career, most memorably as the real-life incestuous socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland in "Savage Grace," who was murdered by her own son. Susanna, the rock-star mother she plays in S...
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Now and Then: Olivier and the Bard
"I can smile, and murder while I smile," confides that notorious noble, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Laurence Olivier), "and frame my face to all occasions." For Olivier, pronouncing "frame" like "feign," it's an auspicious beginning. In Shakespeare's words, he finds his performer's credo.
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Now and Then: Hitchcock's Bad-Ass '40s Brunettes Were the Lead-Up to Those '50s Icy Blondes
My favorite words in the movies come from the dusky, sultry opening minutes of "Rear Window" (1954), as Grace Kelly's New York socialite glides through L.B. Jefferies' (James Stewart) dim apartment, switching on the lights. "From top to bottom," she announces herself. "Lisa." Flick. "Carol." Flick. ...
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Trailer Watch: Phillip Noyce's Malaria Drama 'Mary and Martha,' Starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn UPDATE
UPDATE: A new teaser trailer has landed for Australian director Phillip Noyce's "Mary and Martha," starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn as mothers who form a bond over the loss of their sons to malaria. Watch below.
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