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Casting: Chow in Dragonball, Affleck in State of Play, and Pitt in Tree of Life
There’s a lot of casting news tonight, and instead of boring you with three separate news stories, I thought it might be better to combine them into one Casting update. So here we go. Chow Yun Fat has...
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No Surprise: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life Held Until 2010
When press releases and news articles first appeared with details of new distributor Apparition, one thing stood out: Tree of Life, the upcoming and as yet very mysterious new film from lone wolf...
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Scant New Details on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
We know very little about Terrence Malick‘s new film Tree of Life, said to be a generational family drama. We know it stars Brad Pitt as part of the film’s elder generation, and Sean Penn as the adult...
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Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood to Open the Cannes Film Festival, Other Pictures...
Update: Robin Hood has now been confirmed as the opening night film in an official statement. The Cannes Film Festival is set to kick-off on May 12th, just two days ahead of Ridley Scott‘s Robin Hood...
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Cannes 2010 Lineup Announced; Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ Not on the...
Briefly: The lineup for the official selection and out of competition films for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning. The big news: Terrence Malick‘s Tree of Life is not among...
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Quentin Tarantino to Head Venice Film Fest Jury; Tree of Life to Debut at the...
Quentin Tarantino has led the jury at Cannes, in 2004, but his experience at the Venice Film Festival has been limited to programming a couple of sidebars in ’04 and ’07. That changes this year, as...
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More Turbulence for Distributor Apparition; What Does This Mean For Terrence...
Things change fast. A year ago, the young distributor Apparition looked like one of the most promising new kids on the block. It came out of the gate with a varied, ambitious lineup of interesting...
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Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ Scores PG-13 Rating
Here’s some good news: the MPAA has evidently rated The Tree of Life, the long-gestating movie from Terrence Malick, and awarded it a PG-13. The good news isn’t so much the rating (I don’t really care...
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/Filmcast Ep. 148 – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (GUEST: C....
This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the transcendence of Tree of Life, delve into some television season finales, and debate the hypocrisy of the Cannes film festival. Special guest C. Robert...
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/Filmcast Ep. 154 – Horrible Bosses
This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam continue the discussion over Terence Malick’s Tree of Life, praise indie films like Another Earth, Insidious, and Rubber, and ponder the state of television as art....
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The /Filmcast: After Dark – Ep. 155 – Reassessing The Tree of Life
The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words,...
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Roger Ebert’s Top 20 Movies of 2011
With just days to go until the end of 2011 (Where did the year go???), legendary film critic Roger Ebert has announced his top 20 movies of the year. Just as you’d expect from Ebert, his list runs the...
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Terrence Malick Prepping ‘The Tree of Life’ Director’s Cut; ‘Voyage of Time’...
Terrence Malick is notorious for deleting subplots and even entire characters during the editing process, but for a director’s cut of The Tree of Life he’s going to put some of that extra footage back...
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