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Spirit Awards boost 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Silver Linings' momentum
David O. Russell's screwball comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" and Wes Anderson's coming-of-age romance "Moonrise Kingdom" led the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards with five nominations apiece, including feature, director and screenplay. The bounty...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards, Paul Thomas Anderson, Drama (genre), Sundance Film Festival
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Despite controversy, 'Zero Dark Thirty' soars in limited release
The backlash in Washington over "Zero Dark Thirty" didn't reach the box office, as Kathryn Bigelow's CIA thriller got off to an excellent start in limited release. Playing in five theaters, the film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden grossed $410,000...
Tags: Naomi Watts, Central Intelligence Agency, Twilight (movie), John McCain, Sony Corp.
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Oscar 8-Ball: Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Three years after "The Hurt Locker" and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, won Oscars, the hunt for Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" is putting its director back into the awards-season conversation. How will academy voters respond? Time for another...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards, Celebrities, Central Intelligence Agency, Paul Thomas Anderson
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'Argo,' 'Beasts,' 'Lincoln' among Scripter Award nominees
The authors and screenwriters of "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Silver Linings Playbook" have been nominated for the 25th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Usually only five...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Abraham Lincoln, David O. Russell, Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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National Society of Film Critics names 'Amour' best of 2012
The National Society of Film Critics named "Amour," Michael Haneke's heartbreaking drama about an elderly couple, the best film of 2012 on Saturday. Haneke was named best director and Emmanuelle Riva was named best actress. "The Master" came in...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Paul Thomas Anderson, Drama (genre), Abraham Lincoln, Anne Hathaway
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My favorite moments of 2012
Years ago when I was a student at Northwestern University, a handful of executives at America Online came to my class and explained that you, I and everyone we know would soon find ourselves pleasantly stranded on "information islands." We nodded,...
Tags: Lobbying, The Cabin in the Woods (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson, Politics, Joss Whedon
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For 'Les Miz' and more, the color red makes a statement
For most of "Les Misérables," things do not go well for Fantine. Abandoned by the father of her child, she goes on a long spiral down the economic ladder and winds up working in a brothel. And although she's always featured with a splash of color in the...
Tags: Academy Awards, Celebrities, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Drama (genre), Django Unchained (movie)
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Jason Robards, Paul Thomas Anderson, World War II (1939-1945), Drama (genre)
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Rust and Bone (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tom Hanks, Zac Efron
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'Silver Linings Playbook': Humanity in high-maintenance characters ★★★ 1/2
Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...
Tags: The Fighter (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Mental Health, Bradley Cooper
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, Unrest, Conflicts and War, There Will Be Blood (movie), Arts and Culture, Anna Karenina (movie)
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Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'The Master' set for record-breaking opening weekend
Pop2itPaul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired awards contender grossed $242,127 from five theaters for a remarkable $48,425 per-screen average; "Resident Evil: Retribution" was No.1 with $8.4 million....
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