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filmfanwriter: December 2011
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Sunday, December 18, 2011. George Clooney Is Having A Very Good Year. Despite the inordinate gossip-media attention George Timothy Clooney gets for his love life, this dapper male star deserves the spotlight for his other assets - acting talents, social concerns, creative work, self-effacing humor and general good-guy demeanor. Earlier in 2011,. The Ides of March. Clooney's revelatory performance is garnering numerous nominations, some of which will surely result in wins. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Geo...
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filmfanwriter: In Oka!, A Filmmaker Explores an Unseen, Unheard African Community
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Thursday, October 20, 2011. A Filmmaker Explores an Unseen, Unheard African Community. Boy, did director Lavina Currier take on a challenge. Not only did she elect to direct the film. In Africa, but she made it about a people, the Bayaka, and in a country, The Central African Republic, that’s thoroughly unfamiliar with modern filmmaking. And that’s just the basic outline of this project’s unique nature. Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the BaBenzl Pygmies. Which means “listen! She visited Tibet in work...
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filmfanwriter: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Actor Michelle Williams' Uncanny Marilyn Wins Award Noms. Who knew that when actress Michelle Williams first appeared as the bad girl in. She would have the uncanny good sense to take on roles which offered her real challenges? From a supporting part in. To the lead in. She rose to the occasion. So now, another year, another Williams’ award nomination. Last year, her star turn in. My Week With Marilyn. Born in 1980, Williams’ strong characterizationas. The following Q&A was dra...
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filmfanwriter: October 2011
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011. Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier Bring Alive "Dirty Girl". Despite a substantial effort to integrate gays into mainstream America, anti-homosexual violence continues for those who don't conform to this country's far too conservative attitudes. Though it's hard to believe that it continues, bullying still spurs teen suicides in a country charged by tea party extremism. Coming from an English showbiz family - mom is producer Amanda Temple and dad is director Julien Temple - the yo...
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Actor Gabby Sidibe Proves to Be The Girl for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
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INFORM • INSPIRE • ENTERTAIN • EMPOWER. GPS for the Soul. GPS for the Soul. Don't Stress the Mess. The Power Of Humanity. What's Working: Purpose Profit. What's Working: Small Businesses. Actor Gabby Sidibe Proves to Be The Girl for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. 11/03/2009 05:48 pm ET. May 25, 2011. Veteran Interviewer; Pop Culture Chronicler. For a total newcomer like Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe. And Senegalese father Ibnou Sidibe. Got the lead role in. In director Lee Daniels. And he has m...
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filmfanwriter: July 2011
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Saturday, July 30, 2011. Oscar Winning Director Kevin Macdonald Assembles Crowd-Sourced Life in a Day. A little over a year ago, I responded to the announcement of YouTube's global film experiment, to be called. Life In A Day. Shepherded by producers Tony and Ridley Scott's Scott Free UK and director Kevin Macdonald - by writing about it in a HuffingtonPost post. While Macdonald has made major fiction features - including. The Last King of Scotland. One Day in September. 2003), enjoyed critical and comme...
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filmfanwriter: Step Into This Incredible Doc -- Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
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Saturday, October 15, 2011. Step Into This Incredible Doc - Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel. Having grown up enjoying Roger Corman’s filmic retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s horror tales - many with the legendary actors Boris Karloff and Vincent Price - his garish productions were lodged in my brain forever. This was the guy who inspired so many trendy directors - such as Quentin Tarantino - to go into film-making. So when I saw. Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel. And that's when I...
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