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Jon Avnet Aims for a Righteous Kill

I had to get rid of my Wayfarer sunglasses because of Jon Avnet. The year was 1983 when an Avnet…

3 years ago
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The Universal Language of Film Has a Mexican Accent

The Universal Language of Film Has a Mexican Accent Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki is proving that images speak louder than words…

17 years ago
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Xan Cassavetes

After funding for her feature film, The Sky Is Green, fell through, Xan Cassavetes found inspiration—and a new project—in her…

19 years ago
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Mike Binder

Costner as Denny Davies Mike Binder’s latest movie, The Upside of Anger, begins with a lingering shot of Joan Allen’s…

19 years ago
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Robert Greenwald

Rupert Murdoch, George W. Bush and Al Franken “star” in Robert Greenwald’s Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism Here is…

20 years ago
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Philip Kaufman’s Twisted

“[Being a director is about] being an observer—a pair of eyes with some sort of taste attached—someone who can understand…

20 years ago
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Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike’s Audition, which stars Shiina Eihi, is well-known for its “stick-a-needle-in-the-eye” torture sequence. If it is indeed true that…

21 years ago
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Lasse Hallström

Ever since Anna Q. Nilsson starred in the 1911 production of Molly Pitcher, there has been some degree of Scandinavian…

21 years ago
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Lisa Cholodenko

Cholodenko directs Christian Bale and Natascha McElhone on the Laurel Canyon set. In the past 35 years, the American independent…

21 years ago
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Fernando Mereilles

Rodrigues with Alice Braga in Fernando Mereilles’ City of God. Every once in a while a foreign film comes along…

21 years ago