Jean Simmons, 1929 - 2010
David Hudson"Jean Simmons, a radiant British actress who as a teenager appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in Hamlet and emerged a star whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s in such films as Guys and Dolls
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Sundance. "Restrepo"
David Hudson"How's this for an opening salvo?" asks Dennis Lim in the Sundance Channel's blog, SUNfiltered. "Restrepo, the first documentary to screen at Sundance 2010, kicks off with a grunt's-eye view of being
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"A Prophet," "The Girl on the Train," "Gainsbourg, une vie héroique" and More
David HudsonWhat a week for the French. Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, has made the Academy's Foreign Language Film shortlist and opens to raves today in the UK. André Téchiné
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Sundance and Berlin. "Howl"
David HudsonJames Franco plays Allen Ginsberg in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl, which opened the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday evening and will see its international premiere when it screens in
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Events. Tarkovsky, Wiseman, Kusturica, Fellini and More
David Hudson"In the nearly 30 years I've been writing about movies for LA Weekly," begins FX Feeney, "no moviemaking genius has meant more to me than Andrei Tarkovsky, whose seven feature films will screen over
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DVDs. Chantal Akerman, "Che," Altman and More
David Hudson"When the Criterion Collection released Chantal Akerman's 1975 masterwork, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, on DVD last August, it made one of the most influential films of the
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Sundance 2010.
David Hudson"Can Sundance's new director redefine not just the festival but also the entire independent film industry?" asks Brooks Barnes in today's New York Times. "For the first time in two decades, America
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Berlinale. 16 More for the Competition
David HudsonIn 2008, the Forum honored Koji Wakamatsu with a four-film retrospective that included the international premiere of United Red Army, a highlight not only of that year's edition of the Berlinale but
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Berlinale. Opening & Closing Films, Forum Lineup
David HudsonNot only is the Berlin International Film Festival - the Berlinale - celebrating its 60th edition this year from February 11 through 21, but the International Forum of New Cinema, the section of the
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New Issues, New Models: Filmmaker, Cinephile, Sound Scripts
David HudsonSo, the Golden Globes. Here yesterday, gone today, and now, during the short week ahead, we can go back to getting on with 2010. There'll likely be lineup announcements from the Berlinale, and of course
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"House," "Fish Tank," "The Book of Eli"
David Hudson"Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone - no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House, a 1977 Japanese haunted-house freakout," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times
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Haiti, Raoul Peck
David HudsonFor those of us hundreds or even thousands of miles away, the devastation in Haiti is unfathomable, however many articles we've read or hours of news footage we've seen. For most of us, two days on