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Roundup: The adaptations that filmed the 'unfilmable'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:20 am · December 18th, 2012
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Roundup: Honors on both sides of the pond for Ang Lee
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:30 am · November 28th, 2012
Also: The unveiling of ‘The Hobbit,’ and Spielberg’s missing Bond movie
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On Kristen Stewart and stripping away the tabloid persona
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:29 am · September 11th, 2012
People put their best face on in this game so you’re always going to be charmed, seduced, wooed by the “please like me” thing of it all. But Stewart is a very normal girl in the throes of very abnormal circumstances. And her “best face” is difficult to manage.
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Toronto festival audiences to see a different cut of Walter Salles's 'On the Road'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:24 pm · August 28th, 2012
Despite mixed reaction at Cannes, one of the films I’ve been most looking forward to all year has been Walter Salles’s “On the Road.” It’s set to play Toronto next month, and I have heard that Tom Luddy — one of the Telluride Film Festival programmers — is high on the film, so it could pop up there (fingers crossed). But as it turns out, it won’t be the version seen on the Croisette in May.
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'Alps' wins big in Sydney, but 'Lore' is the one making waves
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:28 am · June 18th, 2012
The latest from the director ‘Dogtooth’ beat a heavyweight field at the Sydney Film Festival, but Cate Shortland’s ‘Lore’ looks to be a global arthouse presence.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 85 — Special Edition! — Cannes 2012 dispatch
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:05 pm · May 25th, 2012
In this week’s special edition podcast Kris and Anne are joined by Guy Lodge for a lengthy discussion of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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Review: 'On the Road' sticks to the map
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:15 pm · May 23rd, 2012
The film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel has been in the works since 1968 — and isn’t quite worth the wait.
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Cannes Check: Walter Salles's 'On the Road'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:54 am · May 14th, 2012
We continue our preview of the Cannes competition with the long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel.
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IFC Films and Sundance Selects ready 'On the Road' for the journey
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:55 pm · May 10th, 2012
Ahead of its Cannes premiere, the long-awaited screen adaptation of ‘On the Road’ has found US distribution with IFC and Sundance Selects.
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Cannes lineup heavy on U.S. fare as Twi-hards prepare to mob fest
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:39 am · April 19th, 2012
Amid the usual Cannes elite like Michael Haneke and Ken Loach, Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart are also set to hit the Croisette with new films in Competition.
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Interview: Kirsten Dunst on 'Melancholia,' Lars von Trier and directing her own career
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:30 pm · January 10th, 2012
Kirsten Dunst’s fearless performance in “Melancholia” has earned her the Cannes Best Actress prize and a National Society of Film Critics award — but the real reward for her has been getting to play a female character at odds with Hollywood norms. We talk to her about her career ambitions, her relationship with Lars von Trier and her dreams of acting in German.
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Round-up: When 'The Birdcage' won
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:03 am · January 2nd, 2012
In today’s round-up, Nathaniel Rogers remembers the Best Ensemble win for “The Birdcage” at the third annual Screen Actors Guild awards, the Academy plans to exercise a Kodak Theatre escape clause and someone’s already making 2012 Oscar predictions.
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