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Links for the Day: Mercury Prize Nominees, Film Society Names New Heads,...

The nominees for the 2012 Mercury Prize have been announced. The Film Society of Lincoln Center welcomes Robert Koehler and Kent Jones. Rush Limbaugh has a kooky new theory about Obama. David Bordwell...

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15 Famous Movie Masters

This weekend brings us our first big baity film of awards season, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a supposed Scientology allegory that truly explores crises erupting from a modern man's lack of...

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Links for the Day: Toronto International Film Festival Winners, The Master...

Silver Linings Playbook wins top audience prize at Toronto. Paul Thomas Anderson's latest shatters box-office records. Slant contributor Richard Larson releases a new story, "This Serious Midnight."...

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Links for the Day: More Mitt Romney Video, Fincher's Lost Classic, Adele to...

Mother Jones exposes more of Mitt Romney's unfiltered opinions. David Fincher's lost classic? We agree. The year's most significant movie? Philip Seymour Hoffman to direct period ghost tale Ezekiel...

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Links for the Day: Where Cuba Is Going, Tom Cruise vs. Scientology Backlash,...

Where is Cuba going? How Tom Cruise plans to fight Scientology backlash. bell hooks does not love Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild. Charles McGrath interviews Salman Rushdie. Roman Polanski...

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Links for the Day: Emmy Winners, Brooklyn in the Age of Barclays, Village...

Click here for a complete list of yesterday's Emmy winners. What does the Brooklyn of the new Barclays Center have to do with the Brooklyns of yore? Village Voice Media's last-ditch effort to save...

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Oscar Prospects: The Dark Knight Rises

[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] For those...

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Oscar Prospects: Looper

[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Does...

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Links for the Day: Hillary Clinton's Farewell, Mark Lijek on Argo, Joaquin...

Hillary Clinton says farewell. Mark Lijek breaks down the real Iran escape vs. the Hollywood version. Elvis Mitchell interviews Joaquin Phoenix. Showtime's Homeland irks Lebanon. Robert Avila chats...

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Links for the Day: Running Alternative Marathons, European Film Awards...

Along the 26.2 miles, no hordes or cheers, just odd tranquility. Kudos to all those who ran the route anyway. Contenders missed out on chance for big payday. Michael Haneke's Amour leads the...

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Oscar Prospects: The Sessions

[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Biopics...

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Understanding Screenwriting #102: The Master, Robot & Frank, Taken 2, & More

Coming Up In This Column: The Master, Robot & Frank, Liberal Arts, Taken 2, Trouble with the Curve, The Racket, The General Died at Dawn, The Fall Television Season 2012, but first… Fan Mail: A bit...

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Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2012

From Calum Marsh's introduction to Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2012: "Two thousand and twelve was, if nothing else, a banner year for uncommonly productive provocation. Audiences were galled by...

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Poster Lab: The Best Movie Posters of 2012

[Editor's Note: Poster Lab is your regular dose of movie poster dissection, and this week brings you the best posters of 2012. For larger images of each poster, and for articles on select posters,...

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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Original Screenplay

Thanks to Mark Boal's second consecutive slam-dunk teaming with Kathryn Bigelow, the one certainty of this year's Original Screenplay field is a bit of 2010 déjà vu. Boal picked up a statuette that...

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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actor

With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year's likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze, filled with veterans who, however gifted, feel like obvious choices, and...

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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actress

Boasting enough fine performances to fill a 10-wide field at least, Supporting Actress is this year's most riches-packed race, and the one with the least room for disappointment. In any season, Sally...

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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Actor

Whether the reason boils down to Oscar politics or an overall lack of enthusiasm, it certainly looks like Joaquin Phoenix is about to be snubbed for his work in The Master, despite the mind-boggling...

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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Director

When introducing Life of Pi at its New York Film Festival premiere, Ang Lee quipped that there are three things directors are warned to never work with: Children, animals, and water. With his latest,...

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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Picture

As is customary at this stage of the game, Oscar's top quintet of Best Picture hopefuls are sure to land nominations, so much so that every pundit can pat himself on the back, saying proudly that if...

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Ranking Oscar's 2013 Nominees

The 85th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category. This...

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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actress

Blergh. Weeks ago I dreamed a dream where all the particulars of my presently contentious relationship with Anne Hathaway, a typically smart and endearing performer who was robbed of an Oscar in 2009...

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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor

All right, all right, all right. We should've known. As it turned out, Matthew McConaughey's still supple ass cheeks in Magic Mike were no match for AMPAS's preference for saggy old balls in this...

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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Actor

The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself, whose notorious choosiness about selecting...

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Links for the Day: Critics on Media Violence, Steven Spielberg Developing...

Critics for the New York Times consider the impact of violence on screen. Scientists report first cure of HIV in a child, say it's a game-changer. Steven Spielberg developing Stanley Kubrick's...

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