When I was at an early screening of the upcoming comedy “Role Models” the other night, I found myself thinking about the Academy Awards, wondering what I always wonder when I see a good new comedy: Why on Earth shouldn’t the Oscars recognize good work in comedy the same way they do in drama, animation, cinematography, editing and all the other great movie crafts?
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It is common practice for Hollywood studios to release movies without screening them in advance for critics.
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IT’S
NO secret that everyone is weighing in on politics these days, from David Letterman to Barbara Walters and the esteemed ladies of “The View” – who, as the New York Times pointed out, have had Barack Obama, John McCain and even Bill Clinton on their couch, with McCain clearly getting the toughest grilling.
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MICKEY Rourke’s time has finally come.
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INDEPENDENT film may be grappling with an inability to perform at the box office, but that didn’t stop “The Wrestler” from inspiring an all-night bidding war after it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night.
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BERNIE Brillstein, who died Thursday at age 77, did a thousand things in show business, but he was one of a kind: agent, manager, producer, executive, raconteur, confidant, great source for lowly reporters in search of a good quote or a great tip.
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IT WOULD BE FAIR to say that I’m not an objective observer when it comes to the news that Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have quit their longtime gig as hosts of “At the Movies,” Disney/ABC’s weekly
TV review show.
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SOMETHING HAS gone very wrong with “Where the Wild Things Are,” the much-anticipated Spike Jonze adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book.
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WHEN I first saw “The Visitor” in the weeks leading up to the Toronto Film Festival last fall, I was moved by filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s soulful account of a widowed college professor (played by character actor Richard Jenkins) who is spiritually reawakened by a chance encounter with an immigrant couple in New York City.
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Articles by Patrick Goldstein
