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Ben Wheatley’s ‘Happy New Year, Colin Burstead,’ Is A Bruising, Brilliant Family Drama [LFF Review]

Oliver Lyttelton — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:30:25 +0000

Practically every director, at some point, matures a little and decides to spread their wings a bit. Steven Spielberg diversified from blockbusters to Oscar-friendly prestige pictures. Every so often, Martin Scorsese takes a break from the crime fare that made his name to make a quiet period drama like “The Age Of Innocence,” “Kundun” or “Silence.” Wes Craven made “Music Of The Heart.

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Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett & More Join ‘Jungle Book: Origins’ Plus More Casting News

The Playlist Staff — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:18:53 +0000

Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett & More Join 'Jungle Book: Origins' Plus More Casting News

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First Look: Official Images Of Formula 1 Racing Drama ‘Rush’ Starring Chris Hemsworth

The Playlist Staff — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:33:24 +0000

First Look: Official Images Of Formula 1 Racing Drama 'Rush' Starring Chris Hemsworth

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Controversial German Film ‘Baader-Meinhof Complex’ Finally Receiving U.S. Release In August

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:58:00 +0000

Some of you may remember the German film, “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex” by Uli Edel; a big-budgeted blockbuster (starring many notable German stars) about the early origins of the Red Army Faction, West Germany’s most violent and prominent militant left-wing anti-capitalist group that began in the late 1960s.

The film almost immediately lost all good will in cinema communities around the globe when the producers of the film — in a move that reeked of Hollywood blockbuster overestimation and self-importance — had the gall to make reporters sign waivers that said if they wrote about or reviewed the film before a certain time they would be sued into oblivion.

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Air Composing Score To French Adaptation Of Japanese Manga Comic With Alexandra Maria Lara

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:51:00 +0000

Moody French synth rockers Air are going to be scoring the Belgian film, “Quartier Lointain” that stars the rather beautiful Alexandra Maria Lara (“Youth Without Youth,” she also played Annik Honore in the Joy Division film, “Control”) Leo Legrand and Jonathan Zaccai.

Here’s the synopis: “A 50-year-old man is transported back into the body of his adolescent self, perhaps allowing him to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance.

The film is being directed by Sam Garbarski (the English-language sex dramedy “Irina Palm,” he also acted in the great 2008 French film, “Un Secret,”) and is an adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi‘s titular 1998 manga comic brought to 1960s France.

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Big-Budget German Film That Threatened Journalists With $100,000+ Fines, ‘Der Baader Meinhof Komplex,’ Selected As German Oscar Hopeful

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:38:00 +0000

So much for “A Woman In Berlin,” a German film we saw at the Toronto Film Fest that we thought might have a shot at Foreign Oscar gold. Nope! Germany has selected it’s official Oscar entry and don’t look for some trenchant drama like “The Lives Of Others” (which won the Best Foreign Oscar for Deutschland in 2007), they’ve chosen, “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex,” a shoot-’em up flick that’s a potential blockbuster (at least for Germany).

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