Difficult to navigate. Too much that’s only available to subscribers. (I thought “free” was the future of business.) And I don’t have time for a Nielsen survey!
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Why has this Austrian film been running continuously at New York’s Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Film Center since Feb. 22, when so many other films have come and gone? It’s still drawing audiences in many, many cities across the nation, and recently passed the $5 million mark at the box office.
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Not me. Yuck. Especially not a fiction film. But it happened. In 2004 at the New York Film Festival I saw “Moolaade” and it blew me away.
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In 1993 there was a tie for the Palme d’Or. The top award at Cannes was shared by Jane Campion for “The Piano” and Chen Kage for “Farewell My Concubine.”
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I’m excited that Laurent Cantet won this year’s Palme d’Or, the top prize at Cannes, for “Entre les Murs” (The Class). I’ve followed his work from “Les Sanguinaires” (1997) “Human Resources” (1999) and “Time Out” (2001). I had the chance to interview the affable French director for a feature on “Heading South” (2005).
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