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Monday, March 14 2011

SXSW Film Festival Day 1: Funny Texans and Duncan Jones

Austin's SXSW Film Festival has the premiere of Duncan Jones's new film Source Code.


Thursday, February 11 2010

Hungry Heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal

The most-recently Oscar-nominated Gyllenhaal talks about why Jeff Bridges is sexy at 60, the dangers of falling for the wrong person and why Sissy Spacek rules.


Friday, January 11 2008

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.


Tuesday, January 8 2008

Zodiac-The Director’s Cut

Even though Zodiac attempts to achieve a sort of documentary-like reality, there is an underlying surrealism, a poetic and nightmarish vibe that hangs over the whole film.


Friday, November 9 2007

Today’s foreign wars are Hollywood hell


Thursday, October 25 2007

Hollywood becomes an unlikely - but effective - teacher


Friday, October 19 2007

Rendition

Rendition is worried about torture. Specifically, it's worried about Americans torturing other people while saying they're not.


Wednesday, August 15 2007

Zodiac

Bonds are fleetingly forged then broken, comradeship and honour are largely absent and, like the Zodiac himself, everyone emerges as a rather lost and damaged soul.


Saturday, March 3 2007

‘Zodiac’ filmmaker David Fincher recalls wave of panic


Friday, March 2 2007

David Fincher talks ‘Zodiac’


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