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VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Paul Thomas Anderson's THE MASTER

Festivals
Long awaited at the Lido, after a prolonged game of cat-and-mouse between the Festival and Harvey Weinstein’s marketing machine, "The Master" has finally been shown.
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  • By Tommaso Tocci
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  • September 1, 2012 4:04 PM
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  • 2 Comments
More: Venice International Film Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tommaso Tocci, The Master, Venice Film Festival

SIMON SAYS: Local Heroes: The New York Asian Film Festival Strikes Again (And Again, And Again)

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The New York Asian Film Festival, now a pop culture institution unto itself, started eleven years ago.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • July 5, 2012 8:56 AM
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  • 0 Comments
More: Simon Abrams, Simon Says, SIMON SAYS (Simon Abrams), New York Asian Film Festival, Festivals, Oldboy, Love in the Buff, The Sword Identity, Edmond Pang, Haofeng Xu

CANNES 2012: And the Winners Should Be...

Festivals
Read our critics' personal predictions of who SHOULD win the awards, and who WILL win the awards, at Cannes 2012...
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr. & Simon Abrams
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  • May 27, 2012 1:31 PM
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  • 3 Comments
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Cannes 2012: Sang-soo Im’s THE TASTE OF MONEY

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You have to really want to say “F*** you” to anyone watching your work to make a black comedy as rancid as "The Taste of Money."
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 26, 2012 7:53 PM
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  • 1 Comment
More: Cannes Film Festival, Simon Abrams, Im Sang-soo, The Taste of Money, Kang-woo Kim, Yoon-sik Baek, Maui Taylor, Hyo-jin Kim, Yeo-jong Yoon

CANNES 2012: Jeff Nichols' MUD

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Some film critics have described Jeff Nichols’s "Mud" as the perfect way to end Cannes 2012, a fun and accessible slice of cinematic Americana. But considering the film’s hammy sentimentality and bogus emotional connections, I can’t think of a more disappointing send off.
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr.
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  • May 26, 2012 3:33 PM
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  • 5 Comments
More: Cannes Film Festival, Glenn Heath Jr., Jeff Nichols, Mud, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Michael Shannon, Sarah Paulson

CANNES 2012: David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS

Festivals
For a Cronenberg film, "Cosmopolis" is light on violence and body horror, but the director’s obsession with evolving ideas and tainted perspectives remains on full display.
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr.
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  • May 25, 2012 5:01 PM
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More: Cannes Film Festival, Glenn Heath Jr., David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis, Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton

CANNES 2012: Koji Wakamatsu’s 11/25: THE DAY HE CHOSE HIS OWN FATE

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Legacy is the thing in "11/25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate," Japanese guerilla filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu’s remarkable drama about the death of militant poet/novelist Yukio Mishima.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 25, 2012 4:37 PM
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  • 1 Comment
More: Cannes Film Festival, Simon Abrams, Kôji Wakamatsu, 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Arata, Shinnosuke Mitsuhima, Yukio Mishima

CANNES 2012: Carlos Reygadas' POST TENEBRAS LUX

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Narrative is the devil in Carlos Reygadas’s baffling and intoxicating "Post tenebras lux."
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr.
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  • May 24, 2012 12:31 PM
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  • 1 Comment
More: Cannes Film Festival, Glenn Heath Jr., Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux, Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres

CANNES 2012: Lee Daniels' THE PAPERBOY

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The best that can be said of Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy" is that it’s sometimes intentionally awful. More often than not, however, it’s just awful.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 24, 2012 9:53 AM
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  • 1 Comment
More: Cannes Film Festival, Simon Abrams, Lee Daniels, The Paperboy, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Macy Gray, Nicole Kidman, David Oyelowo, Zac Efron

CANNES 2012: Walter Salles' ON THE ROAD

Festivals
Walter Salles and Jose Rivera love the characters and world of "On the Road" too much to know how to properly represent them.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 23, 2012 1:56 PM
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More: Cannes Film Festival, Simon Abrams, On The Road, Walter Salles, Jose Rivera, Jack Kerouac, Sam Riley, Kirsten Dunst, Garrett Hedlund, Elizabeth Moss

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