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Bobcat Goldthwait: From Chair Arsonist To Indie Auteur

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.16.2012

Bobcat Goldthwait is many things to many people. He was that guy from the "Police Academy" movies and the celebrated stand-up comic who lit Jay Leno's...

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Prince Charles and Robert Redford Together for the World Premiere Screening of Harmony

Julie Bergman Sender | Posted 04.28.2012

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As we write from London, we confess that as filmmakers it doesn't get much better than this: the Sundance Institute announcement that HRH The Prince of Wales will introduce the World Theatrical Premiere of our film Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World.

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Spike Lee's Newest Joint Gets A Release Date

Posted 04.25.2012

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Spike Lee's newest joint, Red Hook Summer, which premiered at Sundance to mixed reviews and which was (wrongly) hailed as 'Do The Right Thing 2', has ...

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What To Watch On TV This Week

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Once Upon a Time, Eureka, BBC America, The Good Wife, Paul F. Tompkins Laboring Under Delusions, Suburgatory, Richard Hammond's Crash Course, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Cbs, Nikita, Parks and Recreation, Private Practice, Video, Push Girls, Awake, Veep, The Secret Circle, Abc, Bravo, Sundance, Touch, Fox's 25th Anniversary Special, Nbc, Fringe, Hbo, Ringer, The Voice, Slidewide, Supernatural, TV Canada, Cougar Town, Comedy Central, Syfy, Revenge, The CW, Fox, TV News

Between cut-throat competition on "The Voice," the return of "Revenge" and four premieres (including the highly-anticipated "Veep"), this week in TV i...

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Sundance Film Festival Highlights Best-In-Class Green Docs

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.13.2012

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It so happens that several particularly memorable environmental documentaries were screened this year at Sundance and I was lucky enough to see a few of them.

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'Bachelorette' Writer On What It's Really Like To Be An Assistant

HuffingtonPost.com | Lori Fradkin | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Off-Broadway, Assistance, Leslye Headland, Virginia Kull, Theater, New York Theater, Sundance, Weinstein Company, Michael Esper, Playwrights Horizons, Bachelorette, Women News

When the raunchy "Bachelorette" debuted at Sundance this year, audiences were quick to note that, yes, the comparisons to "Bridesmaids" were inevitabl...

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Bindlestiffs: A Raunchy Teen Comedy Made By Teens

Turnstyle | Posted 04.16.2012

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By Noah Nelson Bindlestiffs has the distinction of being one of the most oversexed, twisted, and just plain messed up comedies in ages, and when you ...

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[Interview] The Documentarians Who Prove That 'We're Not Broke'

Turnstyle | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: We're Not Broke, Documentaries, Directors, Filmmakers, Sundance, Film, Indie Film, Doccumentary, Entertainment News

By Noah Nelson Exactly how and why the United States has found itself in financial crisis and up to its eyeballs in debt is, from one point-of-view, ...

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Sundance 2012: Year of the Comedy (It's Complicated)

Roya Rastegar | Posted 04.09.2012

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An unprecedented number of comedies appeared in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival line-up, marking a substantial shift in the direction of American independent film.

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New 'Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie' Poster

Posted 02.06.2012

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On Monday, "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" revealed a brand new poster, seen above. The comedy duo, previously known for their shows on Adul...

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The Week In Culture

Posted 04.06.2012

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Last week, a furry creature by the name of Punxsutawney Phil predicted the weather, a festival in China marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year and...

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Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana Spotted Kissing In Public?

Posted 04.01.2012

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Amidst growing rumors of a possible off-screen romance between Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana continue to grow, a recent report states that the pair w...

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Let's Get Mortified

Emma, The Emma Edition | Posted 03.31.2012

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My memoir class was asked to write our own "Dear Me" letter to our future selves. What essential qualities would we hope stays the same? What would we hope changes about ourselves?

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Sundance Music Festival: 5 Ways to Grow the Live Shows Without Overdoing It

Taryn Haight | Posted 03.31.2012

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It wasn't until night two, during a lively performance by Vintage Trouble, that an overheard comment forced me to realize how impressive the music portion of the festival really was.

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Sundance Doc Review: Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 03.31.2012

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Ice-T revisits his roots as a rapper by visiting with an endless parade of legendary emcees to discuss how they approach their songwriting in Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap.

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Is Virtual Reality The Next Step In Documentary Film?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.30.2012

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Imagine you're at a food bank outside the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. It's a clear and hot Saturday in August. Dozens of hungry people are ...

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Wrapping Up Sundance 2012

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.31.2012

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So how was Sundance? Well, I feel as though I had a successful festival. By that, I mean that I achieved my main goal: I saw a lot of films that made me want to share them with the film clubs I program.

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The Sundance Diaries Part 6

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 01.30.2012

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In our sixth and final installment of our month-long series "The Sundance Diaries," we witness five shorts filmmakers before, during and after the fes...

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