| Enduring Some Customs Savagery
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Perhaps if Dangerous Minds director John N. Smith had titled his latest feature Passion and Longing, he wouldn’t have had quite so much trouble with Canadian customs.
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| Compelled Towards a Cosmic Investigation
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A new documentary project being put together by a pair of Ohio medical professionals pick ups the general thread of fictional films like Ghost and Always.
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| A Couple of Cinematographers
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Nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for The Black Dahlia, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond is now starring in his own buddy flick alongside Hungarian compatriot László Kovács.
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| The John Hughes Club
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With the one-time king of the teen movie prom happily living a non-cinematic life in Illinois, it’s now up to filmmakers like 34-year-old Aussie Phil Price to try and carry the torch.
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| One Unhappy Congressman
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Even though the idea of Hollywood Democrats saying no to a Washington Republican is nothing new, Representative Devin Nunes (R-Calif) is still disappointed.
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| From Off-Off-Broadway to the French Riviera
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East coast acting teacher, director and theater actor Stephen Dest is one of the many artists getting a boost from this year’s Short Films Corner program at the Cannes Film Festival.
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| This Frame Can Be Yours
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By asking people to buy single frames of a future film for $10 a pop, Canadian filmmaker Casey Walker is hoping to raise the money he needs to make a romantic comedy.
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| It's Twitter, Don't Juno
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In just a few weeks, more than 3,000 people have jumped aboard the Diablo Cody news bulletin train.
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| In the Shadow of a Legend
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At age 36, John Wayne’s grandson Brendan has finally found his way to the western genre via a pair of 1870’s tales.
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| A McCartney Mockumentary
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Can Sir Paul still laugh about matrimonial matters in the wake of his ugly divorce with Heather Mills? The makers of a new comedy documentary hope so.
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| Connecticut's Golden Couple
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In this, the 50th golden anniversary year of Paul Newman’s marriage to Joanne Woodward, the couple’s last big screen collaboration is being celebrated in their home state by director James Ivory.
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| Waiting for the Mindcrime Movie
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It’s got it all: a junkie hero, a nun who was once a prostitute and a villain named Dr. X. All that’s missing is an opening in Queensrÿche’s busy schedule.
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| Inspired to Screw Cupid
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Filmmaker Sanjeev Sirpal is heading back to the Florida city block where he took his high school finals for a festival screening of his new romantic comedy.
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| An Ode to Ozploitation
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The new documentary Not Quite Hollywood takes a look back at the wave of low-budget Australian films sparked by the introduction in 1971 of a very liberal Australian R rating.
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| Retracing the Balibo Five
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Without a Trace star Anthony LaPaglia will be returning to his native Australia later this year to shoot the film version of a very famous episode in Down Under journalism.
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