In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the weekend’s openers — “Trouble with the Curve,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and “End of Watch” — as well as Oscar’s big date change shake-up and the foreign language film race. Oh yeah, and Searchlight’s latest addition to the season: “Hitchcock.”
Oscar Talk: Ep. 88 — Academy changes dates while Searchlight adds a new contender
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:16 am · September 21st, 2012
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Steven Spielberg to close AFI Fest for a second year in a row with the premiere of 'Lincoln'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:50 pm · September 20th, 2012
With very little left to choose from in the way of North American premieres, what with NYFF really diving in big this year on that front and Telluride and Toronto taking their fair share as usual, it seemed like Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” would be a good fit for AFI Fest. The November festival always has one or two premieres every year, and last year, one of them was a Spielberg film — “The Adventures of Tintin” (which closed the fest while Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” opened it). And so it shall be.
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Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk 'Lincoln' following trailer premiere
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:27 pm · September 13th, 2012
With much fanfare leading up to the reveal, Disney finally launched the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” this evening. The event was part of a Google Play cross-promotion with Spielberg and star Joseph Gordon-Levitt on hand in a Google+ Hangout to take questions from selected fans for 30 minutes after the trailer debuted.
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Watch 44 seconds of Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:07 pm · September 10th, 2012
The 44 seconds features what I imagine is a touch of John Williams’s original score and is carried through by dialogue from Union soldier to Daniel Day-Lewis’s 16th Commander-in-Chief.
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Academy to celebrate 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's 'E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:17 pm · September 5th, 2012
Palo Alto screening will take place on September 28.
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Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' trailer coming September 13
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:21 pm · September 4th, 2012
Google+ event to be broadcast in Times Square.
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Off the Carpet: Getting out the vote
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:20 am · August 27th, 2012
That’s what’s so great about movies, books, paintings, songs, etc. They are as much a direct reflection of the times as they are a nebulous Rorschach for them. Involuntary extrapolation can be as significant as clear-eyed reaction to a straight-forward treatise. And in an environment as heated, tense and divided as this, the art that escapes the cauldron is bound to be, if not willfully profound, then a fascinating looking glass, at the very least.
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Daniel Day-Lewis does some serious thinking in the first poster for 'Lincoln'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:30 am · August 22nd, 2012
Steven Spielberg’s biopic hits theaters November 9.
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'Lincoln' eases the pressure with a mid-November release
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:01 am · July 19th, 2012
A wise move for a film feeling the burden of expectation?
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Off the Carpet: Setting the table for the 2012-2013 film awards season
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:35 am · June 11th, 2012
With the film awards season still a few months off, it’s time to at least clean up the joint and get some fresh predictions out there. Today we take a look at the lay of the land at the year’s midway point.
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The Long Shot: Searching for sleepers in the Oscar guessing game
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:34 am · June 11th, 2012
As early Oscar charts hype up juggernauts like “Lincoln” and “Les Misérables,” what’s this year’s little engine that could?
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Michael Mann looks back on 'The Last of the Mohicans' 20 years later
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:31 pm · May 12th, 2012
Michael Mann’s 1992 colonial epic “The Last of the Mohicans” will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, if you can believe it. In honor of the film’s 20th anniversary, the American Cinemateque premiered the DCP of that cut at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood Friday night.
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The Lists: Our top 10 most anticipated films of 2012
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:54 am · January 3rd, 2012
With a new year comes a new reserve of hope for what the multiplexes might have to offer. While HitFix has already cranked out a big list of 30 titles most movie-lovers are anticipating this year, we at In Contention put our heads together and came up with our own.
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