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Film on American Muslims Can Help Europe Understand Islam

Frankie Martin | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Culture and Cultures International Film Festival, France, Europe, Islam, Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America, Denis Piel, Padies, Film, Movies, World News
Frankie Martin

Nestled in a medieval village in the French countryside, we ate delicious international food and watched four films a day from all corners of the world.

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The Cove To Be Shown At Tokyo International Film Festival

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Tokyo, Tokyo International Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival the Cove, Animals, Movies, The Cove, Green News

TOKYO — The Tokyo International Film Festival will show "The Cove," a documentary that depicts the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. But the decis...

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Two Guys Walk Into A Bar...

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Trailer, Football, Matt Weiner, Aghanistan, Manhood, Shepard Fairey, Movies, Media News
Tom Matlack

These two guys set out to write a book about what it means to be a good man -- not self-help drivel, not book about guys for women.

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Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney Talk The Other Man

Jenna Busch | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Other Man, Richard Eyre, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Interview, Movies, Entertainment News
Jenna Busch

Antonio Banderas: This is a movie that, in Hollywood, would literally have been impossible to make. Because it would have cut the peaks and lows of the movie and make something very edible for audiences.

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From Toronto to Pittsburgh to Jay Leno, Capitalism Marches On...

Michael Moore | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Labor, Class Warfare, Venice Film Festival, Jay Leno, Michael Moore, Toronto Film Festival, Afl-Cio, Universal Health Care, Capitalism: A Love Story, Single Payer, Capitalism, Labor Unions, Movies, Pittsburgh, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Michael Moore

My crew and I had one thought in mind while we were filming Capitalism: What if the powers-that-be refuse to give us funding for the next movie after they see what we've put in this one?

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Toronto Film Fest Day 5: Cycling, Silliness, Senior Citizens, Soul and Sexy Babes

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bitch Slap, Michael Cera, Til Schweiger, Toronto Film Festival, Lucy Lawless. Fatih Akin, Gay, Film, Movies, Xena, Drive-In, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

If you get to Cannes, you stay there for much of the fest. But if you can make it to Toronto for a weekend, why not?

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Dirty Dancing in Hollywood

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dirty Dancing, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Agents, Patrick Swayze, Indie Film, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Charlotte Safavi

Everyone has a Dirty Dancing story. This is mine. In the mid-'80s, a year out of Oxford University and a year into an investment-banking career, I decided to dance.

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What Makes a Movie "Spiritual?"

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Stephen Simon, Arjuna Ardagh, Spiritual Cinema Circle, Free Tele-Seminars, Movies, Cinema, Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

My favorite all time translucent movie is Alan Ball's American Beauty. What is your list of the five most "spiritual" or "translucent" films you have ever seen?

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New Film Earth Days Looks At The History Of Environmental Activism

Grist | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Enviromental Activism, Environment, Earth Days, Earth Days Film, Movies, Green News

Featuring interviews with a who's who of influential environmentalists, Earth Days starts in postwar suburbia and describes the creeping sense of disc...

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Toronto Film Fest Day 4: Two Documentaries and a Little Girl

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, Documentary, Ballet, Michael Moore, Movies, Frederick Wiseman, Adoption, Capitalism: A Love Story, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

You could spend an entire film festival going from press conference to round table to one-on-one interviews. I'd rather see the films and worry about interviews some other time.

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Israel and Iran Trump Michael Moore at Venice

Nina Burleigh | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iran, Venice Film Festival, Israel, Middle East, Movies, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, Entertainment News
Nina Burleigh

The two surprise winners at the Venice Film Festival represent the yin and yang of the modern Middle East.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 3: Cartoons, Cads and Commies

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Toronto Film Festival, Leon Trotsky, Disney, Film, Movies, Cinema, Animation, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Tomorrow is just a train wreck of competing film screenings. I interview Vera Farmiga at 10:20 for the excellent Up In The Air. But then what?

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Toronto Film Fest Day 2: Two Hits, A Fun Miss and Then Malaise

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, The Coen Brothers, Vera Farmiga, George Clooney, Film Festival, Vikings, Movies, Jason Reitman, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Reviewed: the new Coen brothers movie, George Clooney, fuzzy Ukrainian subtitles and a pack of arty Vikings.

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2009, Apocalypse Now

Giles Slade | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Vigo Mortenson, Made to Break, Guy Pearce, Giles Slade, Godzilla, Shane Acker, Post Apocalypse, Tim Burton, Vincent Price, Ed Woods, Movies, 2012, The Road, Apocalypse, Chris Bucci, Roger Ebert, 9, Independence Day, Climate Change, Edward Scissorhands, North American Ark, Wall-E, Roland Emmerich, Cormac McCarthy, Health Care, Corpse Bride, Entertainment News
Giles Slade

The Copenhagen conference is billed as humanity's last chance to reverse climate change, but many fear we have already reached a global tipping point. Our films reflect this.

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Finding Yourself and Your First Film, on Google

Jim Killeen | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Google, Health Care Executive, Independent Film, Traffic Engineer, Detective, Jim Killeen, Father, Google Me, Movies, Killeen Texas, Priest, Swinger, Entertainment News
Jim Killeen

I met a sexual swinger in Denver, a father of eight in St. Louis, a retired NYPD detective, a traffic engineer in Scotland, and a health care executive in Melbourne Australia.

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Telluride Tries to Survive Life During Wartime

Michael Bialas | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Shirley Henderson, Paul Reubens, Colorado, Ciaran Hinds, Todd Solondz, Michael Lerner, Ally Sheedy, Movies, Allison Janney, Telluride Film Festival, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

Maybe this is as close as writer/director Todd Solondz will ever get to a feel-good movie.

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Telluride Report: Nic Cage Gets Wack with Crack in Bad Lieutenant; Viggo Hits The Road; Clooney's Comically Existential Up in the Air

Chris Willman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George Clooney, Entertainment News, Viggo Mortensen, Nicolas Cage, Movies, Entertainment News
Chris Willman

Before we decamp from the Colorado mountains, here's a brief look at some of the 36th annual confab's more notable or notorious entries.

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Clooney's "Up in the Air" Premieres at Telluride

Chris Willman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Academy Awards, Movies, Up in the Air, Telluride Film Festival, George Clooney, Jason Reitman, Entertainment News
Chris Willman

One of this year's most anticipated movies had its world premiere this weekend 9,545 feet above sea level, in a screening room at the Telluride Film Festival.

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Getting An Education at Telluride Film Festival

Michael Bialas | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, French, Lone Scherfig, Alfred Molina, Festival, Music, Movies, Telluride Film Festival, Laura Linney, George Clooney, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

It's 1961 in Twickenham, England, and 16-year-old straight-A student Jenny dreams of living in Paris but seems content with playing the cello, smoking cigarettes, learning to speak French and listening to Juliette Greco.

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2009 Summer Movie Review Part I: The Moments That Mattered.

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Angels & Demons, Inglourious Basterds, Summer, Orphan, The Hangover, Transformers, Surveillance, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hurt Locker, News, Christopher Waltz, Movies, 2009, Scott Mendelson. Up, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Remembering Up, Transformers 2, Harry Potter, Inglourious Basterds and more.

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Stephen Colbert to Play The Riddler? The Momentum Builds!

2morrowknight | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Colbert Fans, Daylife, The Colbert Report, Warner Bros, Twitter, Stephen Colbert, Batman, Movies, DC Comics, Comics, Comic Villains, Films, The-Riddler, Comic Books, Entertainment News, Gotham City, Catwoman, The Internet Movie Database, Colbert Nation, Showhype, Mahalo, Whorepresents, Newsrunner, Acting, Shakespear, Batman Sequel, Batman Movie, Entertainment News
2morrowknight

Deep in your heart, you know Colbert's got the complete package of comic timing, creativity, audacity, and that indefinable "it" to pull off a portrayal of such a multi-layered villain.

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Add All About Steve to the List of Punful Movie Titles

Danny Groner | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Good Will Hunting, Long List of Movies, Ginger Snaps, Get Smart, Poison Ivy, Cops and Robbersons, Me Myself & Irene, The Family Stone, All About Eve, Timeline, Zero Effect, Wild Wild West, Deliver Us From Eva, Barb Wire, King's Ransom, Puns, Grosse Pointe Blank, All About Steve, Film, Hey Steve, Movies, Cinema, Major Payne, Raising Helen, For Pete's Sake, Invincible, The War of the Roses, (500) Days of Summer, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

I've assembled a list of movies that showcase lead characters names in the titles in both odd and clever pun-driven ways. Some of these may have been obvious to you, other puns might be so bad that you'll only realize them now.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Welcome, Big Brother: Ondi Timoner on We Live in Public

Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1984, Fema, The Dandy Warhols, Film, Josh Harris, Exclusive, George Orwell, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Privacy, New York, Movies, Web 2.0, Cookies, Ondi Timoner, Internet, Quiet: We Live in Public, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Interview, Invasion of Privacy, Soho, Documentary, Voyeurism, Big Brother, We Live in Public, Pseudo, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.

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The House of Mouse Buys the House of Ideas...

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Marvel, Wolverine, Comics, Scott Mendelson, Fantastic Four, Mickey Mouse, Daredevil, Iron Man, Ghost Rider, Movies, X-Men, Goofy, Donald Duck, Spider-Man, Disney, News, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The acquisition of 5,000 often violent, occasionally sexualized comic book characters just makes Disney an even easier target for Focus on the Family. We'll see if Disney reacts to inevitable cheap shots.

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The Final Destination 3D Defeats Halloween II in the Year's Dumbest Showdown: Huff Post Weekend Box Office in Review

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Final Destination, Scott Mendelson, Sandra Bullock, Hayao Miyazaki, All About Steve, Julie and Julia, Movies, Rob Zombie, Box Office, Brad Pitt, Ponyo, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Meryl Streep, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, 3d, Halloween II, News, Gamer, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Yup, summer is officially over. Now we can get to what's really important -- trying to keep up with the dozen or so new Oscar-bait releases and overestimating James Cameron's Avatar.

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