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This week in TV news: The Academy hands down rulings on hourlong comedies
Following a ruling last month that the Television Academy would only consider half hour shows eligible for the comedy category at the Emmys, a panel of nine analysts have now begun handing down the rulings for exemptions in the selection process. The panel, which was set up to determine the category assignment of hour-long shows that […] More
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Week in Review: Details revealed about Spike Lee’s Kickstarter movie
Back in August 2013, Spike Lee launched plans for his newest movie on Kickstarter, causing a big hullabaloo in the process. People questioned whether an established director like him was taking money away from other independent filmmakers and projects, even though he clarified that more people came to Kickstarter who had never heard of the […] More
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The Definitive Kubrickian Films: 10-1
What’s difficult about making this list is finding a balance between a successful Kubrickian film that either predates or pays homage to Kubrick and, for lack of a better term, is a ripoff. Now that we’ve hit the apex, it’s clear that these are, regardless of influence, quality films. What sets them apart is their […] More
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Recommended Reading: Sundance, Steve McQueen addresses criticism, an oral history of ‘Hoop Dreams,’ Meryl Streep’s career and more
Above: Mondo’s poster for Big Bad Wolves. Sundance: 50 Gay Marriage Lawyers to Attend Prop 8 Documentary Premiere. Robert Redford’s Oscar Snub: Who’s to Blame? An oral history of Hoop Dreams, 20 years after its première by Jason Guerrasio How the most respected actress in Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love being laughed at. […] More
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Recommended Reading: Tom Milne, Oscars, David Lynch, Steve McQueen’s BBC series and more
Matt Ferguson reveals There And Back Again and One Ring To Rule Them All – two new letter press prints on sale today. James Schamus Reveals Secrets of the Oscar Voting System. Tom Milne Remembered: by Jonathan Rosenbaum David Lynch and the factory archive. Steve McQueen plans drama on the black experience in […] More
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Listen to Harry Belafonte’s speech about cinema and race at the NYFCC Awards
Awards ceremonies, while giving critics a chance to award the movies they feel are most deserving of praise, often also give people an opportunity to discuss cinema and what it means to them, as well as the impact film has on larger societal aspects. One such reflection occurred at the 2013 New York Film Critics […] More
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‘The Act of Killing’ and ’12 Years A Slave’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #369
We had such an overwhelming response to our 12 Years A Slave podcast that we knew we would have to return to the subject, post-haste. But how? We suckered longtime friend of the show and guest host par excellence Kate Rennebohm to re-open the debate in our Week In Review segment, which also touches on the just-resurrected The […] More
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Slavery in Cinema as Polar Opposites in ‘Django Unchained’ and ’12 Years a Slave’
Two films about slavery in the United States have been released barely a year apart. One is by a renegade American auteur starring American actors; the other, based on a memoir, brought to the screen by a British video artist and a cast led by Brits playing American. Despite their similar subject matter, they are […] More
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’12 Years A Slave’ and ‘All Is Lost’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #368
Ricky D, Simon Howell and Josh Spiegel sit down to discuss one of Sound On Sight’s most anticipated films of 2013, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave – and joining them is former co-host, Julian Carrington. After an hour long heated debate, the crew takes a few minutes to review J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost, […] More
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BFI London Film Festival 2013: ’12 Years A Slave’ a milestone piece of work from Steve McQueen
In 1853, Solomon Northup published his memoir 12 Years A Slave, a story of how a black man born free in New York was kidnapped, sold into slavery, and for a dozen years worked on various plantations around Louisiana just before the American Civil War. Acclaimed British artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen has now brought this extraordinary tale to the big screen, following his physically harrowing films Hunger and Shame, in what is more than a mere film but a cultural milestone in the representation of slavery, a major work that is spearing in its intensity, incandescent in its soul. More
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’12 Years a Slave’, the latest Steve McQueen feature, releases a new clip
Despite, to date, having only two features on his resume, filmmaker Steve McQueen has found himself on the receiving end of a high amount of critical acclaim, as both his films have been well-regarded in the film community, garnering him a number of fans, which in turn made his next feature, titled 12 Years a […] More
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Watch A New Clip From ’12 Years A Slave’
Director Steve McQueen is a filmmaker we’ve championed ever since we started our site back in 2008. McQueen’s first feature Hunger landed on our list of best films that year, and his follow up Shame topped our our list of best films of 2011. His latest pic 12 Years A Slave was not only the winner […] More
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