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    Interviews

    Christos Nikou on Cutting to the Core in “Apples”

    Peter Strickland on Going With His Gut in “Flux Gourmet”

    BAMcinemafest 2022 Interview: Lynne Sachs and Paolo Javier on Crafting a Clever Turn of Phrase with “Swerve”

  • Reviews
    Reviews

    Tribeca 2022 Review: The Thrill of the Chase Can Be Addictive in Daniel Antebi’s “God’s Time”

    Tribeca 2022 Review: Signe Baumane’s “My Love Affair with Marriage” is a Truly Animated Affair

    Tribeca 2022 Review: No Mourning is Allowed with Death on the Horizon in the Beautifully Bittersweet “Pink Moon”

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    The Mentaculist
    Matt Damon in "Euro Trip"

    Matt Damon: A Career in Cameos

    Independence Day: My Street

    Five Movie Marketing Miscues That Blew Up in All the Wrong Ways

    Lucas Black and Nathalie Kelley in "Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift"

    Justin Lin on “Tokyo Drift” and the Four Hours That Saved the
    “Fast & Furious” Franchise

  • Retrospective
    Retrospective

    “All My Work is the Desire to Live Fully, To Grab it and to Swallow Life”: Mira Nair on a Career Showing the Unseen

    Reclaiming Reality: Mario Van Peebles on Reimagining a City and an Industry in “New Jack City”

    Joachim Trier on “The Worst Person in the World” Epilogue, Freezing Oslo in Time and More with Paul Thomas Anderson

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    BAMcinemafest 2022 Interview: Lynne Sachs and Paolo Javier on Crafting a Clever Turn of Phrase with “Swerve”

    “Every Day Was Like, ‘How Do We Pull This Off?'” Martin Brest on “Midnight Run”

    Tribeca 2022 Review: Annette K. Olesen’s “A Matter of Trust” Hops Around Difficult Leaps of Faith

    Andy Ostroy on Keeping a Singular Artist’s Legacy Alive in “Adrienne”

    Interview: Cooper Raiff on Getting at Grace in “Shithouse”

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When Spielberg, Raimi & Others Took a Backseat: The Five Most Famous 2nd Unit Directors of Recent Memory

Sometimes a way of keeping creative control or a friendly favor, the second unit director has sometimes been more famous than the person in the main director's chair. Here's a quartet who Steven Soderbergh will be following as he lenses some of the action for Gary Ross' adaptation of "The Hunger Games."
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Five Ways Steve Jobs Changed the Movie Industry

The resignation of the Apple CEO means the end of an era, but his legacy goes far beyond being a technological innovator, changing the way we see movies and the movies we see. Here are the five ways his impact on the film industry will continue to be felt.
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Seven Actors On Their Baddest Behavior When Playing Themselves

Al Pacino and Neil Patrick Harris are just two actors brave enough to attach their own names when sending up the personas they've built onscreen. Here's some of our other favorites.
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Hickey and Boggs and Cutter's Way at the New Beverly Cinema during Edgar Wright's "The Wright Stuff"
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Nine Revelations From Edgar Wright’s The Wright Stuff III Series at the New Beverly

The director of "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World" invaded the Los Angeles rep house.
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Extremely Reduced & Incredibly Diminished: Movie Characters Who Were Cut Out of the Final Film

By not making the final cut of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," James Gandolfini joins a fairly illustrious club of actors who have seen major roles cut down to size.
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Touchback: Five Super Bowl Ads That Brought Back Iconic Characters

Think Ferris Bueller is the only one to get a new lease on life from Super Bowl Sunday? Here are a few more times marketers traveled down pop culture's memory lane and why they'll continue to do so.
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Serial Killers, Liquor and Short Shorts: A Brief History of Jake Gyllenhaal in Music Videos

It used to be as a favor to friends, but the "Source Code" star seems to be taking this acting in music videos thing seriously now.
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Cinema to Salivate Over: 20 Great Foodie Films to Tantalize the Tastebuds

From the pies in "Waitress" to the timpani in "Big Night," we look back at some of the finest looking food committed to film, but be warned — don't read this list on an empty stomach.
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Playing God: 13 Actors Who Dared To Be the Deity in Movies

In "A Little Bit of Heaven," Whoopi Goldberg becomes the latest performer to play the Supreme Being, but she's hardly most unusual choice. A look back at the eclectic group of actors who have tackled the ultimate role.
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Nine Great Unrealized Films from Scott, Nolan, Scorsese and Other Notable Contemporary Filmmakers

"Prometheus" and "Dark Knight Rises" may be the films we'll be seeing this summer from Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan, but there were other promising pictures we could've had instead. A list of films from our favorite directors that won't be coming to theaters any time soon.
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Seven Quirky Lowbrow Favorite Films of Highbrow Directors

What movies are amongst Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick's favorites? Probably not the ones you'd think.
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A Brief History of Self-Financed Oscar Campaigns: Five Award Aspirants That Paid Their Own Way

Whether to earn acclaim or just the ability to work more, these filmmakers have put the money where their mouth is when it comes to building awards buzz for their latest film.
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