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The Oscars look back in languor in 2011

Golden oldies
This year, perhaps in hopes of diverting audiences with a different format, the Motion Picture Academy has again changed the number of Best Picture nominees.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 18, 2012

Hollywood offers botched operations and altered lives in 2012

Change of plans
Those who got a thrill last spring when the SEALS took out Osama bin Laden will have more of the same covert ass-kicking to look forward to in theaters as we enter 2012.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2011

The best films of 2011 are not the ballyhooed

Also-rans
The films this year were kind of like the current field of Republican presidential candidates: some are entertaining, but there's no clear frontrunner, and there's more attention on the flashiest and least substantial than on the more thoughtful and genuine.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 21, 2011

The director of Immortals could be Hollywood's most misunderstood blockbuster auteur

Tarsem revealed
When I first saw the trailer for Immortals, I wondered how Tarsem's newest film would be misinterpreted.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | November 30, 2011

Documentary films get some love at a great Maine festival

Hello, Camden!
We've all had that irritating waitress who, asked what she'd suggest on the menu, answers cheerily, "Everything is great!" Thanks for the help — and what credibility!

By: GERALD PEARY | October 07, 2011

A good festival becomes a great one in the Midcoast this weekend

Reel talk
Last year, the big stories out of the Camden International Film Festival were its newfound industry cachet and a very noticeable uptick in Portlanders making the trip up to Midcoast Maine's annual documentary showcase.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 28, 2011

Four-hour showstoppers and Malcolm McDowell come to Waterville

Into the Woods
Boasting a high-profile selection of archival prints and to-be-buzzed-about small films, the 14th Maine International Film Festival begins on Friday and runs through July 24 at locations in Waterville, primarily HQ Railroad Square Cinema. Herein, a guide to the festivities.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 13, 2011

The film festivals of New England are no last resorts

Sun screens
Not only does our region offer some of the country's best vacation spots, but it also hosts some of the most innovative, manageable, illuminating, and entertaining cinephilic celebrations around.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 10, 2011

Jane Eyre redux

Cary Fukunaga and Mia Wasikowska hold forth
Jane Austen has been a movie and television icon for some time now, and yet the Jane that both big and small screens just can't get enough of is the "poor, obscure, plain, little" heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | March 18, 2011

Complete 2011 Oscars coverage

Predictions, reviews, quizzes, and a live chat on Oscar Night
Will The King's Speech silence the competition? Did Salt REALLY got nominated for an Academy Award? Join us for Oscar punditry aplenty!

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2011

Tom Hooper's film looks like an Oscar winner

Speech impediments?
Given the change in political attitudes after the election of Barack Obama, a reactionary backlash following last year's progressive Oscars - in which Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director - might be no surprise. But who knew the Academy would get this fuddy-duddy?

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 25, 2011

Love might be awarded at this year's Sundance Festival, but anger holds sway

Hope and fury
When you step back from Sundance 2011 and its 110 films that hit the dozen screens over the 10 days ending January 30, what you come away with is the year of Angry Men.

By: HARLAN JACOBSON | February 02, 2011

Political fodder

Will the GOP save the restaurant industry?
Despite some notable successes described here last week, 2010 was a sobering year for the restaurant business.

By: BRIAN DUFF | December 29, 2010

Interview: Armie Hammer (''The Social Network'')

The actor talks about playing twins, digital-age chivalry, and growing up in the most interesting family that ever existed
Armie Hammer looks like a menswear catalog model.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | October 04, 2010

Interview: Aaron Sorkin (''The Social Network'')

The screenwriter on hackers, Harvard, and getting even
Aaron Sorkin is one dapper guy.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | October 05, 2010

Interview: Jesse Eisenberg (''The Social Network'')

The actor on Harvard, anachronistic technology, and raging at the patriarchy
Eisenberg's performance suggests he's a genius, and a five-minute conversation does nothing to dispel that impression.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | October 04, 2010

The In Crowd: Matt Reeves and Kodi Smit-McPhee

Raising the stakes on the vampire movie
Even though Matt Reeves's previous film was the cult favorite Cloverfield , fans of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson's offbeat Let the Right One In howled when they learned that the American director was remaking their darling for a Hollywood studio.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 29, 2010

Interview: Davis Guggenheim, director of Waiting for Superman

Out with the Old School
Davis Guggenheim has always been a man on a mission.

By: TOM MEEK | October 04, 2010

Fall Film Preview: Underground big-screen shows

The local film scene revs up for fall
One of the happiest and most unexpected developments in local arts culture over the past year has been the subtle yet persistent proliferation of DIY and/or locally-oriented movie nights in the area.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 15, 2010

Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall on the Town

Class acts
Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, who play Doug and Jem, a pair of Charlestown gangsters in Affleck’s stunning adaptation of local author Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves , make for an intense, photogenic screen couple. That is, until Rebecca Hall comes between them.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 15, 2010

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