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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Second Sight

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2008-01-10 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows Last month the honorable task fell to me to review two of the year's most anticipated movies for Cinematical , Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (9 screens) and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (51 screens). In retrospect and with a comfortable critical consensus in place, moviegoers can easily see that...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens 400 Blows - Politics as Usual

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2008-03-21 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows Are films political? Do they fall into left-wing and right-wing camps? I would imagine that not all films have an agenda. Some films can be considered "great uniters," in that they bring together agreeing audiences from all over, films like the $200 million hits I Am Legend (264 screens) and National Treasure: Book of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Oscar Grouch

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2008-01-25 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows As my wife said, it's just not the Oscars if there's nothing to complain about. However, I was impressed that two of the year's toughest films, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (389 screens) and Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men took the most nominations. Typically, the Academy is attracted to much...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Guilty Thespians

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2008-03-06 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows Have you ever liked an actor that no one else seems to like? You almost want to keep your adoration to yourself, for fear that you'll be laughed out of a party or a gathering when you say how much you like Josh Hartnett. I actually do like Josh Hartnett , quite a lot. For a pretty boy, he has a very warm screen...
 
 
 
 
 
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Katzenberg Pissed At Slow Rollout Of Digital Screens

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2008-04-30 15:12:48 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...screens that were supposed to be ready for the upcoming 3-D onslaught have yet to materialize. We get wind of this news from the mouth of Katzenberg via Variety In the last 30 days, things have not progressed as well as I had hoped, expected and, quite frankly, been committed to, by all the parties involved, Katzenberg said in response to an...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens 400 Blows - The Fate of Family Films

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2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows In the winter of 1990, audiences had all kinds of acclaimed, or at least halfway decent, movies to choose from. Yet when all the smoke cleared, it was Home Alone that had captured the box office. What's more, it kept on capturing the box office, for months. The wags of the time wrote hundreds of column inches trying to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Foreign Matters

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2008-02-07 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows Call me an optimist, but I'm always hoping for Oscar reform. I've been rather excited about recent rumblings that the Academy is finally, finally considering changing its rules regarding foreign film consideration. I saw one of the new nominees last week, The Counterfeiters , and I have to say that there were at least 20...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Joining the Cult

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2008-02-14 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows When evaluating new movies, sometimes a critic will try to envision their staying power. It goes without saying that most movies have no shelf life; they're designed for one opening weekend, or perhaps a few months of buzz leading to an award, but that's it. A year from now, people will be ignoring them on airplanes and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens 400 Blows - The Smell of Fear

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2008-03-27 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Screens, 400 Blows Not many people care to admit it, but Hollywood is run by fear. Fear is an emotion generated by things that are not known or understood, and in the movie business, no one ever knows what's going to happen. ( William Goldman was right when he said, "Nobody Knows Anything.") All those accountants, producers, publicists,...