Observer Film Quarterly
David HudsonAs noted in the current lists and awards tracker, while the full results of Sight & Sound's best-of-09 poll of around 60 critics aren't yet online, thanks to Guy Lodge at In Contention, among others
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In Theaters: "Up in the Air," "The Last Station," "Brothers"...
David HudsonReviews from Telluride and Toronto may have been mixed, but Jason Reitman's Up in the Air got a bit of a boost yesterday when the National Board of Review named it Best Film of 2009 (as noted in the
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"Nine" Premieres in London
David HudsonDirector Rob Marshall and much of his starry cast walked the red carpet in London last night for the world premiere of Nine, an adaptation of the musical by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston which opened
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James Whale, Miklós Jancsó, So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
David Hudson"A special case needs to be made for James Whale," argues Cullen Gallagher in the L Magazine. "Though not exactly forgotten - a pair of genre-defining horror masterpieces (Frankenstein and The Invisible
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2010: Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin. Also: "Film Ist.," DVDs
David HudsonEven as critics cobble together their year-end and decade-end lists, 2010 is already beginning to take shape. The Sundance Film Festival (January 21 through 31) has unveiled its lineups for the four
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Lists and Awards: Gothams, IDA, Spirits
David HudsonThis year's double-round of list-making - best of the year, best of the decade - is already well underway (see "Let the Wild Listings Start!" and "Lists: Best of the Decade, Part 2," updated through
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Cineaste: Winter 2009
David Hudson"Its critical thunder eclipsed at the time by the more lushly funded Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey (both of which brokered in discomfiting speculation about mankind's origins and destiny
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Warhol, Chaplin, Golden Horse Awards
David Hudson"Who shot Andy Warhol?" asks Pop!, a self-described "happening whodunit musical" at the Yale Repertory Theatre through December 19. Well, we know very well who, and actually, a more pertinent question
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Issues: Adrian Martin in IndianAuteur, Christian Petzold in epd Film
David HudsonSomething to be thankful for while they're still around: Magazines. Of course, in one form or another, there will likely always be magazine-like entities with editors and contributors whose work will
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Liv Ullmann, François Truffaut and, well, "The Princess and the Frog"
David Hudson"Liv Ullmann wasn't Ingmar Bergman's muse, she was his partner in angst - a fellow weary existential traveler conspiring with him to invent some of the most psychologically complex men and women in
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"The Lovely Bones" in London
David Hudson"The Lovely Bones, which was given its premiere last night at the Royal Film Performance in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, is a domestic tragedy that unfolds under
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Lists: Best of the Decade, Part 2
David Hudson"Syndromes and a Century by Apichatpong Weerasethakul heads the tally of more than 50 films chosen as the best of the 2000s by TIFF Cinematheque, the year-round screening program of the Toronto International