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Before They Were Golden Globes Nominees: See Early TV Appearances

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Golden Globes Nominees 2012, Zooey Deschanel, Canada Tv, Miami Vice, David Duchovny, Golden Globes 2012, Steve Buscemi, Homeland, Golden Globes, Big Love, Eric Stonestreet, Boardwalk Empire, The Killing, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, Video, Breaking Bad, Spin City, Abc, Party of Five, Alec Baldwin, Nbc, Little House on the Prairie, Cinema Verite, Veronica's Closet, New Girl, Hbo, Californication, Showtime, Tv, Knots Landing, Reality-Free, Tim Robbins, Mireille Enos, Bryan Cranston, TV Canada, Madeleine Stowe, My So-Called Life, Amc, 30 Rock, St. Elsewhere, Twin Peaks, Sofia Vergara, Seinfeld, Claire Danes, Revenge, My Wife and Kids, Fox, Amy Poehler, TV News

Before Bryan Cranston was cooking up meth as Walt White, before Zooey Deschanel played Jess, the most enthusiastic girl in horn-rimmed glasses, before...

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HuffPost Review: El Bulli - Cooking in Progress

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Marshall Fine, Ferran Adria, The Guardian, El Bulli, Cinema Verite, Movie Reviews, Barcelona, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, El Bulli ?€“ Cooking in Progress, Molecular Gastronomy, Documentary, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The cinema-verite approach to documentary making has its pitfalls -- particularly if the subject is as close-mouthed as Ferran Adria, the focus of Gereon Wetzel's El Bulli - Cooking in Progress.

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Tribeca Film Festival Exclusive Interview: Thomas Dekker Rises to the Angel's Crest with Cinema Vérité

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Mira Sorvino, Dick Cavett, Cinema Verite, Elizabeth Mcgovern, Angel's Crest, Alberta Canada, Thomas Dekker, Tim Robbins, River Phoenix, Hbo, Anna Paquin, Neil Patrick Harris, Out Magazine, Seinfeld, Lance Loud, Jeremy Piven, Entertainment News
Cynthia Ellis

Thomas Dekker is almost offensively photogenic. But what makes Dekker fascinating is his complete transformative power as an actor.

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"Screw the Tripod!" Remebering Ricky Leacock (1921 - 2011)

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Documentary Filmmaking, Albert Maysles, Cinema Verite, Charlotte Zwerin, Bill Lichtenstein, Documentary, Documentary Film, Documentaries, D.A. Pennebaker, Ricky-Leacock, Richard Leacock, Leacock, Media News
Bill Lichtenstein

It's rare to work in an established art form where you can work with and be influenced by those who invented the genre. Not so for documentary filmm...

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A "Bad Batch" of Pot Brownies in LA, Online

Abe Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Independent Film Distribution, California Election, Medical Cannabis, Independent Film, Cinema Verite, Drama, Medical Marijuana, Proposition 19, Film, Comedy, Prop 19, Entertainment News
Abe Schwartz

In movies, marijuana is depicted either a hilarious holy grail or a gateway to harder, darker substances.

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Meg Whitman's New! Improved! Post-Journalism! Politics

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Political Journalism, Steve Poizner, Future of Journalism, Mike Murphy, Jerry Brown, Cinema Verite, Ebay, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Russian Oligarch, Lesley Stahl, Baghdad Bob, Los Angeles News
William Bradley

Something new and more than a little bizarre is busy being born in California, where billionaire Meg Whitman has been spending feverishly for months on an advertising blitz.

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What Do Bob Dylan, Bill Clinton, and French Cream Puffs Have in Common?

Flora Lazar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cinema Verite, Chris Hegedus, Culinary Education, Jean-Philippe Maury, Meilleurs Ouvriers De France, Vocational Education, D.A. Pennebaker, The Collar, French Pastry, Flashpoint Academy, Jacques Torres, Chicago Education, French Pastry School, Jacquy Pfeiffer, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Sebastien Canonne, Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, Don't Look Back, Nicolas Sarkozy, Cream Puffs, Artisanal, Artisan, Food, Chicago News
Flora Lazar

Legendary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus were at Flashpoint Academy this week for a screening of a new film they're making about the coveted "Meilleurs Ouvriers de France."

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