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Bilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection.

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    Michael Fassbender on Inglourious Basterds“The most important thing was that I didn’t stand out to a German speaker as an English or Irishman speaking German.”
  2. Sandra Bullock’s 2009: The Smart Game Plan for Future Oscar-Hungry Comic ActorsThe key to her Oscar buzz for ‘The Blind Side’: not messing with the Bullock formula too much.
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    And Now for Something Completely Enjoyable, Courtesy of a Young Terry GilliamIt’ll remind viewers of the elaborately absurdist animated shorts Gilliam would create for ‘Monty Python’ starting the following year.
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    Director Corneliu Porumboiu on His Cannes WinHis police procedural evolves into something far different than an episode of ‘CSI.’
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    Terry Gilliam on Heath Ledger’s Last Movie“Nietzsche was wrong. What doesn’t kill you does not make you stronger. It makes you really tired.”
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    See Filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu’s Gone With the WineThis 2002 short is from the director of the current art-house hit ‘Police, Adjective.’
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    Mark Boal: Screenwriting on the Front Lines“People knew about the war, of course, but there were no images of the wounded [in the media].”
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    Giovanni Ribisi on Being the Only Jerk in AvatarSteven Spielberg liked it as much as he liked ‘Star Wars.’
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    See The Student Film That Kickstarted James Cameron’s CareerBehold, Xenogenesis!
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    The Hurt Locker’s Many Critics Awards Don’t Mean It’s a Lock to Win Best PictureConsensus from critics groups rarely translates to Oscar gold.
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    Inside the New York Film Critics Circle’s Votes’The Hurt Locker’ was a no-brainer, but things got tense deciding Best Screenplay.
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    Inside the Boston Society of Film Critics’ Hurt Locker LovefestThey liked ‘A Serious Man’ too.
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    See a Pair of Acclaimed Shorts From the Doha Tribeca Film FestSophia al-Maria’s ‘The Racer’ is an almost-experimental look at abandoned cars and abandoned people; Katherine Spry’s ‘Just Another Thursday Night’ is a goofy comedy.
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    The Gotham Awards: Victories for Hurt Locker, Sloshed PresentersMeryl Streep: “drunk as a skunk”?
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    Willem Dafoe Getting a Little Sick Of Your Antichrist Penis Jokes“If people want to make that the thing they want to talk about, it’s distressing, but that’s their business.”
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    The Missing Person’s Michael Shannon on Noir, 9/11, and Working With Herzog“[Herzog] always seemed to be pretty pleased with what I was doing, so I didn’t endure any abuse or rants or anything.”
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    Director John Woo Talks Red Cliff and His LegacyThe director speaks about his new film, and why it’s easier to make a movie in China than in Hollywood.
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    Ben Foster on Shooting The Messenger’s Most Harrowing Scenes“Oren created this incredible environment on set. No scenes were rehearsed in the picture.”
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    Collapse Director Chris Smith on His New Doc and the Impending Fall of CivilizationThe conclusion I’ve since come to is that no one really knows anything.
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    Cairo Time’s Patricia Clarkson on Playing the Romantic Lead, for Once“If I can be vain about it, it’s a real treat to play a lovely, enticing, sexual woman.”
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    6 Best Middle Eastern Films From Doha-Tribeca FestThe region has been experiencing a filmmaking renaissance in recent years.
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    Filmmaker Matt Cibelli’s New Short Film Sure to Please Crane Lovers, Foot FetishistsThe film juxtaposes (beautiful) footage of construction cranes with (enigmatic) audio of women talking about their shoes.
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    Filmmaker Jeremy Workman ‘Makes It Big’Workman’s short following the travails of a talented actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role.
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    Director Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt’s J’accuse and Our Visual Illiteracy“Even ‘Casablanca’ eventually becomes disappointing because it never changes.”
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    Antichrist Director Lars von Trier Reviews His Reviews“What this person is saying makes perfect sense to me. But I don’t think showing contempt in a film is a bad thing.”
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    The Real Ari Gold on His New Movie With Adrian Grenier“There’s another [Ari Gold] out in Eugene, Oregon, who runs an organic bakery … He’s the Ari Gold most unlike the one on TV.”
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    Harmony Korine on How Fatherhood Influenced His New Movie About Having Sex With Garbage Cans“The trash bins began to resemble human forms to me … They looked very humpable.”
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    Trucker’s Michelle Monaghan on Getting Her License“I made a deal with [the director] that if I wasn’t able to get the permit, I wasn’t going to make the movie.”
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    Afterschool Director Antonio Campos on Absorbing Internet Criticism and the ‘Unbearable’ NYC Prep“‘NYC Prep’ seems to be more interested in glorifying and sensationalizing that lifestyle more than actually presenting us with anything resembling reality.”
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    Don’t Make Jane Campion Turn This Car AroundA structurally playful and surreal look at what can only be described as a family road trip from hell.
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    Lucrecia Martel’s Rey Muerto: A Wild Bunch of Violence and ChickensIt’s a perfect introduction to Martel’s style, in the way it mixes kitchen-sink realism with a sense of mythic wonder.
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    Animator Emily Hubley Plays Volleyball in Her Living RoomIt’s a beautiful little experimental collage about a single woman’s morning workout, with music by Yo La Tengo.
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    Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Still Walking and the American After Life Remake“I am still looking forward to it — but of course I am worried.”
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    See Neill Blomkamp’s Six-Minute Rough Draft of District 9’Alive in Joburg,’ made in 2005, details a future world in which aliens in Johannesburg are segregated in a way that recalls South Africa’s notorious apartheid regime.
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    See Wojciech Has’s Short Film About the Accordion That Got AwayHas’s ‘Harmonia’ is an old-school tearjerker about a poor young boy who wants an accordion.
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    Park Chan-wook Recounts a Worse-Than-Usual Day at the MorgueIt’s as if Jean-Paul Sartre and Rod Serling got together and hijacked a Roland Emmerich film.
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    In the Loop Director Armando Iannucci on Sneaking Into the State Department“It got onto the Drudge Report …They then carried out a complete review of their security procedures.”
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    See the Short Film That Won In the Loop’s Peter Capaldi an OscarSeriously, it will somehow both warm your heart and creep into your dreams.
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    In Soviet Russia, Nikita Mikhalkov’s Short Film Watches YouIt’s a modernist (and very Soviet) look at a young girl’s interaction with the world around her.
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    Girl Sold for Reasonable Price of One Bag of Millet, in Louise-Marie Colon’s LeilaIt’s a dark, evocative, little fable featuring a rough animation style and the voices of sixteen schoolchildren in Burkina Faso.
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    Humpday Director Lynn Shelton on Making the Leap Into Commercial Projects
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    Youssou N’Dour on Politics, Music, and the Theater-Filling Documentary of His LifeThe activist, singer-songwriter, producer, and sometime actor finally seems to be gaining the American exposure he deserves.
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    NY Asian Film Fest Guests Bring Props“I’m sure if we had the same legal system as America we would have been sued.”
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    Filmmakers Bastian Caspar, Sebastian Natto, and Denis Trümbach Would Like to Take Your PictureIt actually starts off kind of creepily, with a man silently walking around and taking Polaroids of random bystanders, putting them into strange poses as he does so.
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    Moon’s Sam Rockwell on Being His Own Co-Star“It was weird — a big festival of narcissism for me.”
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    Filmmaker Bruce McDonald Clears Dance Floor by Process of EliminationMcDonald’s 1998 short ‘Elimination Dance’ starts off looking like a meet-cute romantic comedy and then turns into something infinitely weirder.
  47. Kids From Smile Pinki Faring Way Better Than Ones From SlumdogMemo to impoverished Indian children: be from the movie that won the Best Documentary Oscar, not Best Picture.
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    Did We Really See What We Think We Saw During the End Credits of The Hangover?If we did, the MPAA must’ve been asleep at the wheel.
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    A Pair of Short Shorts From Filmmakers Ounouri Damien and Eckhard KruseThe Art by Chance Film Festival celebrates “ultra-short films” by presenting them to us in unexpected, nontheatrical venues.
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    Filmmaker Joel Plotch Pulls One OverThe story does end with a final twist of the knife, but it’s far subtler and more haunting than you might expect.
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