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If We Picked the Winners: Marion Cotillard for Best Actress, Two Days, One Night

The contributors at Rogerebert.com took a poll for the Oscars, picking who we each wanted to win in all of the main categories of the Academy Awards. The votes were tallied, and the results are in. Over this week, each … Continue reading

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I Wish I Was Special

Radiohead’s “Creep” was a monster hit, a hit kept growing and growing and growing (you all will remember the entire YEAR when you could barely turn on the radio without hearing it.) Nobody in the band appeared to anticipate that … Continue reading

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Review: The Kid With a Bike (2012)

This review originally appeared on Capital New York. In the opening scene of Kid With a Bike, directed by legendary Belgian brother-team Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, a 13-year-old boy (Thomas Doret) tries to call his father from a phone in … Continue reading

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“The Beautiful People. It’s All Relative To The Size of Your Steeple.”

Scala & Kolacny Brothers, the all-female choir from Belgium, suddenly became world-famous when their cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” was used in the memorable trailer for The Social Network. I have since bought as much of their stuff as I can … Continue reading

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Rotterdam @ BAM: C’est Déjà L’ete (d. Martijn Maria Smits)

Originally published on House Next Door [Editor’s Note: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is partnering with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to highlight the films in IFFR’s prestigious VPRO Tiger Awards competition (given to first- or second-time filmmakers). A … Continue reading

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Rotterdam @ Bam: C’est Déjà L’ete; Director Martijn Maria Smits

This week, BAM is partnering with the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam to present to American audiences the winners of IFFR’S Tiger competition (given to first- or second-time filmmakers). I went to many of the press screenings last week (as … Continue reading

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