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Feb 1, 2014 1:53 pm

The top stories of the week from TOH!

Alfonso Cuaron Wins Best Director at DGA Awards (FULL WINNERS LIST)

Crafts Roundup: Talking VFX with the Five Oscar Nominees

Box Office:

Friday Box Office: “Ride Along” Reigns Again, “Awkward Moment” Connects, “Labor Day” Lags

Who Needs an Oscar Nod? “Gloria” Scores Strong Initial Numbers Along with “Stranger by the Lake” and “Visitors”

Features:

2014 Preview: From “Nymphomaniac” to “Gone Girl,” What Films Look Good, Great and Troublesome This Year

Rottderam Panel: Creative Co-Funding of Indie Films, from Tribeca to Kickstarter

Rotterdam: Women Directors and Women-Driven Narratives Are Front and Center

SBIFF Review: Opening Night Doc “Mission Blue” Plumbs Depths of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

Should the New York Times Review Every New York Film Booking?

The Toronto International Film Festival Insists on Premieres for its Opening Weekend

Anatomy of a Scene: Talking the “Her” Office with Oscar-Nominated Production Designer KK Barrett

Anatomy of a Scene: Oscar-Nominated Editor Christopher Rouse Talks the Pivotal Attack in “Captain Phillips”

Elisabeth Moss Wows Sundance with Two Films, “The One I Love” and “Listen Up Philip”

Five Things I Learned at DGA Symposium with Scorsese, Greengrass, Russell and McQueen

John Lightgow Talks Ira Sachs’ Gay Love Story “Love Is Strange” at Sundance (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

Oscar-Nominated “The Square” Team Talk Filming a Revolution (VIDEO)

Teller Speaks! Talking Wondrously Mind-Boggling Art Doc “Tim’s Vermeer”

Saying Goodbye to Two Hollywood Good Guys

Will Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in “Batman vs. Superman” Invigorate Franchise?

Sundance Deal Tally: Who’s Bought What? (Score Card UPDATED)

Reviews:

Four Reasons 2014 Will Be the Year of the Immigrant on Film

George Clooney’s World War II Adventure “The Monuments Men” Never Achieves Liftoff

This Weekend, See Oscar Shut-Outs “Labor Day” and “Tim’s Vermeer”

Zellners Strike Wonder with “Kumiko the Treasure Hunter,” Starring Rinko Kikuchi

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Criterion’s ‘The Tree of Life’ Is Not a Director’s Cut, but a New Movie From Terrence Malick

Malick says that the new, 188-minute edit of his 2011 drama starring Brad Pitt is another version altogether.

Spike Lee’s Longtime Editor: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Was His Quickest Cut Since ‘Do the Right Thing’

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‘Madeline’s Madeline’: Why the Dreamy Movie’s Surreal Imagery Took Six Years and Many Experiments to Get Right

How the melding of Josephine Decker and Ashley Connor’s bold visions and experimental backgrounds resulted in one of the year’s most visually astounding films.

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