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Tuesday
Dec272011

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Anne Helen Petersen has 5 crotchety excellent questions about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Bad Ass Digest a terrific piece on Margaret & #TeamMargaret, the time between Christmas & New Years and the space between Mess & Masterpiece
Daily Mail Christina Hendricks returning to the 1960s for Bomb a political period piece from sporadic director Sally Potter. The film is about two teens who get involved in the "Ban the Bomb" movement. The film will star Elle Fanning and Alice Englert. Englert is actually the daughter of the great filmmaker Jane Campion though most sites are missing this info since people keep spelling her last name wrong. 

Movie|Line interviews Dee Rees on her feature Pariah which is about to open at long last. Go see it!
Black Book interviews the incomparable Sandra Bernhard before her New Year's Eve shows.
Awards Daily Sasha looks back on box office versus Oscar and how drastically things have changed over the years from when Terms of Endearment could end the year at #2 just behind a Star Wars movie. We covered this topic in great detail a few years ago but it's always worth contemplating if crazy depressing. Basically what it boils down to is adults started watching pay cable and left the movie theaters and the industry got really good at making films exactly like television: i.e. your favorite series returns on ____ . Stay tuned!

Oh look! It's one of our first official stills from Soderbergh's stripper drama Magic Mike (2012) with all of the boys four of the boys accounted for: Joe Manganiello, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, and Mike's leading man Channing Tatum. 

top ten bonanza! 
Beiber fever caps the Top Grossing Documentaries of 2011 according to IndieWire -- It's interesting to note that the list contains only two of the movies from Oscar's 15-wide finalist listBuck and Bill Cunningham New York | Our friend Katey Rich delivers her top ten for Cinema Blend and boy has she stayed loyal to Meek's Cutoff  | Acid Cinema has a fun snarky preface and an individualistic top ten | Paste Magazine offers up a bizarre top 50 (Happythankyoumoreplease???? Really?) | Guy Lodge at In Contention doubles up for a top twenty with high marks for Weekend and Drive, of course, which he famously offered to have sex with at Cannes last summer |  Now Toronto's list reminds us that release dates differ greatly from country to country. 

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can't wait for MAGIC MIKE... i guess we already know who the Film Bitch Award for Best Sex Pot of 2012 will be ;)

December 27, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRyanSt

Excited to see what Potter has in store for her next film. I personally rank her right up there with Jane Campion. They're very different, but equally good in my book. Although this cast of names (surprised the Bening consideration wasn't noted) is starting to remind me of The Man Who Cried, the one Potter film I could not stand... I am doubly cautious of it not being good because of the tasteless puns reviewers will make of its title.

December 28, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterfbh

Nathaniel...are you going to comment on Meryl's presentation at The Kennedy Center Honors?

December 28, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterSoSueMe

Magic Mike could get a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes and I will probably still be seeing it opening weekend.

December 28, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJohn T

JOHN T -- it probably will. You know how critics can be with certain demographically-targetted movies, no matter the quality.

December 28, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterNathaniel R

I find that I can't take a top 10 list seriously if it doesn't mention "Weekend" and/or "Drive." With that said, Guy Lodge's list is the best I've seen.

December 28, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRaul
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