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Trailer Face-Off! Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston vs. Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

By Alexandra Galkin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100

This week: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston vs. Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, two documentaries about legends of decades past and the stars who still love them.

All About Simon Aboud

By Emma Brown Photography Mary McCartney — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0100

Comes a Bright Day is British writer-director Simon Aboud's first feature film, or first feature film to make it past production. Aboud's first script, The Beautiful Fantastic, brought him to the attention of the British filmmaking world: Everybody loved it, everybody wanted to work on it, but somehow it is still languishing in preproduction limbo.

Chloe Sevigny

By Kim Gordon Photography Craig Mcdean — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

With her new role as a transgender assassin, Chloë Sevigny—actress, New York City style icon, and torchbearer of a certain kind of downtown feminine cool—finally gets a chance to show us everything she’s got. And as it turns out, a little bit more.

Casting Call: Killing Pablo

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:45:00 +0100

Killing Pablo, Joe Carahan's Pablo Escobar film based on Mark Bowden's book of the same name, has a tumultuous development history. Originally announced in 2007 as one of two competing Escobar movies (the other one, Escobar, was also indefinitely shelved), Pablo's producer went bankrupt in 2008 and not much has been heard of the project since.

Trailer Face-Off! Moonrise Kingdom vs. Wanderlust

By Alexandra Galkin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:45:00 +0100

This week: Moonrise Kingdom vs. Wanderlust, two movies about couples trekking out for epic adventures in nature, with hilarious actors to fill in the rest of the movie magic.

How Eva Green Made Perfect Sense

By Craig Hubert Photography Brigitte Lacombe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:20:00 +0100

It's a vision of the end of the world unlike anything we've seen before. Perfect Sense, directed by David Mackenzie, takes place in a world struck by a mysterious disease that feverishly knocks out the senses, one by one, from the human race.

The Un-Petrifying Sophie Stuckey

By Miguel Figueroa — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0100

The young Sophie Stuckey is an old pro at horror films. The 20-year-old actress from Camden co-starred as a child actress on films such as Close Your Eyes opposite Goran Visnjic and 2005's The Dark, in which she played Maria Bello's young daughter.

Antonio Campos and the Borderline Personality

By Keely Weiss — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:35:00 +0100

Borderline Films' latest offering, Campos' Simon Killer, was picked up not by any major studio's indie distribution shingle but rather by the vaunted IFC Films—perhaps suggesting that Borderline's true home will always be within the ultra-indie world.

Casting Call: Gods and Kings

By Emma Brown — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:45:00 +0100

Last autumn, rumors of a Warner Brothers' Moses biopic ran rampant. On Wednesday, it was announced that not only was the film going ahead under the title Gods and Kings, but that Steven Spielberg would be directing it and that it would be "like a Braveheart-ish version of the Moses story."

Ti West Revisits the Scene

By Craig Hubert — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:50:00 +0100

In a sleepy New England village, two bored teenagers sit behind the desk of the Yankee Pedlar, a small, quiet, soon-to-close inn. When they're not drinking beer or being annoyed by the employee at the coffee shop next door, they are amateur ghost hunters.

Trailer Face-Off! Casa de mi Padre vs. The Dictator

By Alexandra Galkin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:15:00 +0100

This week: Casa de mi Padre vs. The Dictator, two movies starring chameleon-like funny men taking on new ethnicities and probably insulting some people along the way.

Marina Abramović Makes Sundance Shut Up

By Deenah Vollmer Photography Katie Fischer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:55:00 +0100

Born in 1946, Serbian performance art luminary Marina Abramović visited Sundance this year in support of Matthew Akers' documentary The Artist is Present, about her blockbuster and game-changing MoMA exhibition of the same name.

Tim and Eric (and Will Forte)'s Zero-Dollar Interview

By Deenah Vollmer Photography Katie Fischer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0100

Visionary comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim stormed Sundance this year with their debut feature Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, an absurdly funny film made on a low budget, and also co-starred in The Comedy, a drama.

David Lynch

By Matt Diehl Photography Sebastian Kim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The director, artist, designer, songwriter, and auteur of the weirdly normal (or normally weird) on the joys of being promiscuous, the pleasures of earthly enlightenment, and why he has no trouble keeping it surreal.

Blythe Danner Gets Her Swag On at Sundance

By Emma Brown — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0100

Two topics dominate any current discussion of film: the Oscars and Sundance. In a moment of conformity, we have decided to address both of these topics via an interview with Blythe Danner.

Presenting: Your 2012 Oscar Nominees

By Emma Brown — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0100

At long last we can stop speculating about which films will be nominated (or snubbed) for this year's Oscars and start speculating about who will win! The Academy announced the nominations for the 2012 ceremony this morning.

Melanie Lynskey Arrives in 'Hello, I Must Be Going'

By Emma Brown — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:15:00 +0100

Melanie Lynskey, while perhaps not a household name, is definitely a familiar face. The actress has appeared in everything from Ever After, Coyote Ugly, and Sweet Home Alabama to Two and a Half Men and lauded indie films such as Up In the Air and Win Win.

Dangerous Beauty: Gerardo Naranjo and Stephanie Sigman on Miss Bala

By Craig Hubert — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0100

Avoiding the stodginess of a socially-conscious, "important" film, Miss Bala approaches its subject, the power of drug cartels in Mexico, with a frantic urgency.

What Rachel Grady Found in Detroit

By Emma Brown — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0100

Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing's new documentary, Detropia, is a sobering film that examines Detroit as a microcosm of American history and identity.

Sundance Behind the Scenes: Meet Ellie Burrows

By Katie Fischer Photography Katie Fischer — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:30:00 +0100

As the Sundance Film Festival revs up this week, the usual hype about the hottest new actors and filmmakers is hard to avoid. Less often, though, do film fans hear about someone like Ellie Burrows—even though she and her firm, Cinetic Media, have been integral in getting no fewer than ten films to this year's Sundance screen.