Ready or not, TV steps into third dimension
The 3-D push continues unabated. We’re just going to have survive consumer confusion, expensive options and bad 3-D. Now where are those glasses?
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On the road … to prison
BEIRUT: In the independent cinema of the MENA, the most persistent genre, bar none, is the road movie. The form has plenty to recommend it.Shot from a car or a train, set-design costs drop to next to nothing. Instead, there are exterior shots, with ample opportunities for the sort of cinematographic spectacle that art-house audiences and tourism ministries love
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TIFF Talk | “Blue Valentine” Director On Long in the Works Drama
The intimate relationship drama “Blue Valentine,” from director Derek Cianfrance, doesn’t appear to have anything in common with anything out of Quentin Tarantino’s oeuvre. But as revealed at the last session of Live at the Lounge with indieWIRE in Toronto this year, the two come from a breed of directors that continue to stake their claim on the independent film landscape. They are part of the …
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TORONTO: Aronofsky compares ‘Black Swan’ to ‘The Wrestler’
Darren Aronofsky sees a connection between his film “The Wrestler,” which premiered at the Toronto fest in 2008, and his new film, “Black Swan,” a psychological horror-thriller set in the world of ballet. ” ‘Black Swan, being the highest art and wrestling being the lowest,” the filmmaker said at a press conference. “Both use bodies in […]
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