HitFix’s Gregory Ellwood ponders if “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is the first great movie of 2014 and whether it can be an awards season player with a March release date.
Is 'Grand Budapest Hotel' the first Oscar contender of 2014?
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 11:01 am · February 6th, 2014
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Review: Wes Anderson's delightful 'Grand Budapest Hotel' never outstays its welcome
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:00 am · February 6th, 2014
Ralph Fiennes is wonderful in dizzy but unexpectedly touching caper, which finds the perfect narrative context for the Anderson’s.
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'Blue is the Warmest Color' stars snubbed in EFA nods, as Knightley and Watts score
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:50 am · November 9th, 2013
“Blue is the Warmest Color” was one of six films nominated for the top prize at the European Film Awards, but its stars had to make way for Keira Knightley and Naomi Watts in the Best Actress category. Meanwhile, Belgium’s Oscar entry “The Broken Circle Breakdown” unexpectedly leads the field.
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Wes Anderson and an all star cast check in with new 'Grand Budapest Hotel' poster
Posted by Dave Lewis · 12:25 pm · October 15th, 2013
Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Mathieu Amalric, F. Murray Abraham, Bob Balaban, Lea Seydoux, Saoirse Ronan
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Kevin Macdonald, Jude Law and Focus Features team up for sunken treasure thriller 'Black Sea'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:55 am · April 25th, 2013
Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald is about to go deep sea diving with Jude Law. Deadline reports that the film “Black Sea” has been positioned as his next with Law in the lead as a laid-off submarine captain who gets involved in a scheme to seek out a storied sunken sub that might be loaded with gold in the Black Sea.
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Lynne Ramsay quits Natalie Portman western 'Jane Got a Gun' on day one of shooting
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:55 am · March 19th, 2013
Chalk this up as some instantly legendary Hollywood news. Lynne Ramsey has walked off of the production of Natalie Portman western “Jane Got a Gun” on day one of shooting out in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As Mike Fleming writes in his exclusive report, directors leaving production is hardly unheard of, but not showing up on the very first day is a bit, uh, unique.
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Roundup: Fall of the 'Guardians?'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:22 am · November 21st, 2012
Also: Frank Ocean’s ‘Django’ tune, and 2012’s narrative rule-breakers
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Oscarweb Round-up: Altair and Ezio find a home at Sony
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:07 am · October 21st, 2011
In today’s round-up, the film rights for “Assassin’s Creed” land at Sony, the “Martha Marcy May Marlene” crew makes the press rounds and Jude Law sticks up for investigative journalists — despite playing the worst of their kind in “Contagion.”
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Review: The circle of lifelessness in '360'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:45 am · October 13th, 2011
There are precious few good screenplays that begin with the words, “A wise man once said…”. Peter Morgan’s script for “360,” a vacuous theoretical spin on “La Ronde,” isn’t one of them.
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