A three-year-old collective of the best in film editing (chosen by film editors) is a lot of fun to chew on.
What is the best-edited film of all time according to those who do the job?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:43 pm · February 3rd, 2015
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Oliver Stone's 'JFK' to be re-released on 50th anniversary of Kennedy assassination
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:13 pm · September 20th, 2013
Oliver Stone’s “JFK” will be re-released in November with the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination looming on Nov. 22. All of this has, of course, brought plenty of thoughts to the op-ed pages.
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Gary Oldman to receive career retrospective at the Arclight Theater in Hollywood
Posted by Roth Cornet · 4:19 pm · December 27th, 2011
The Arclight Hollywood announced today that it will host a six-film retrospective of of character portraits featuring “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” star Gary Oldman.
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The Lists: Top 10 Gary Oldman performances
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:51 am · December 6th, 2011
Gary Oldman has settled into pimps and dwarfs, rednecks and clergymen, kingpins and gangster pawns, punk rockers and classical musicians, crooked cops and noble detectives, political villains and Gothic monsters with equal aplomb. The performances are varied and lived-in. With “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” heading to theaters, we use it as an excuse to count down the best of them.
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Gary Oldman on investigating, and becoming, Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone's 'JFK'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:27 pm · December 5th, 2011
Fifteen minutes really isn’t enough time with a guy like Gary Oldman. I’m sorry, not for me. Only a douche bag would complain about ANY time with Gary Oldman, of course. I’m aware of the navel-gazing. But someone that good, that many times out, and in that many different ways just kind of demands a laundry list of queries per film.
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The Lists: Top 10 films about politics
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:37 am · October 4th, 2011
With George Clooney’s ‘The Ides of March’ on the way, we offer a state of the filmpolitik union. Films on our list include “JFK,” “Election” and “The Manchurian Candidate.”
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