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Best of the Week: Indie Spirit Noms Shake Up Awards Race, Things I Learned at First ‘American Hustle’ Screening, Oscar Contender Interviews and More

Nov 30, 2013 2:39 pm

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“Philomena” Off to Strong Start, “Nebraska” Second Weekend Lags

Weekend Top Ten: “Catching Fire” and “Frozen” Take Off

50th Anniversary of JFK Assassination: Why It Was Only Lee Harvey Oswald Who Shot President Kennedy (VIDEO)

“Best Man Holiday,” “Black Nativity” and “Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas” Join Banner Year for Black Filmmakers

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Composer Nicholas Britell Talks the Powerful Spiritual-Field Songs in “12 Years a Slave”

Emma Thompson Talks Oscars, Herpes, “Saving Mr. Banks,” and Talking Back to Ang Lee in “A Life in Pictures” BAFTA Q&A

Emmanuel Lubezki Talks the Virtual Cinematography of “Gravity,” How a Peter Gabriel Concert Helped Him Visualize the Film and More

The Liberation of Harrison Ford, Character Actor: “It’s risky every time you go out” (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

“Charlie Countryman” and “Wolf of Wall Street” Make Sex Scene Trims for R Rating; Evan Rachel Wood Vents Against MPAA

Things I Learned at the First Screening of David O. Russell’s “American Hustle”

Weinsteins Go New Media with “August: Osage County” as Streep Limits Press Access, Pursue Awards Influencers in New Way (STREEP TALKS VIDEO)

Book Review: “A Life of Barbara Stanwyck,” at 1000 Pages, Builds a Living Thing

Indie Spirit Nominated “After Tiller” Is an Observant, Even-Handed Portrait of the Country’s Remaining Third-Trimester Abortion Doctors

Indie Spirit Nominated “Crystal Fairy”: Michael Cera and Gabby Hoffmann Take a Psychoactive Voyage

This Holiday Weekend, See Musicals “Black Nativity” and “Frozen”

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