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big screen
People ANNE HATHAWAY JUST GOT MARRIED
/Film what to expect on the Prometheus BluRay
Playbill character actor Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther, Night and the City) dies at 94
In Contention shines a spotlight on AMPAS's best quality: their interest in film preservation. They're still trying to find the missing Oscar nominees from year's past. God speed, AMPAS, god speed.
The Envelope can Disney dominate  the Animated Film Race? I think so. I'm guessing that Frankenweenie wins. 
i09 original production art from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

small screen
In Our Words smart piece on gaycism and sitcoms -- just because you include a gay character, you shouldn't have carte blanche to indulge in every other form of bigotry.
Gawker what's going on with Christina Aguilera's vagina in her new video? 
Big Thoughts... enjoys Kelly Macdonald on Boardwalk Empire. I have to say that's my only regret in my lack of interest in the show. Love her in the movies whenever she pops up. 

must-see this newly uncovered video from behind the scenes on Mean Girls is a must-see: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan rehearsing the Kevin G rap.

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politics
Salon has an interesting article about the right wing's problem with pop culture and lack of Hollywood supporters

stage
Gothamist an absolutely horrifying live theater development. Spider-Man is the gift that keeps up stinking up Broadway! 
Hollywood Reporter ANNE HATHAWAY DOING THE SONGS OF "CABARET"-- one night only in New York. (Oh to have enough money to attend benefit concerts!)

September. It's a Wrap (Thank Goddess!)

Let September be the demarcating line for The Film Experience is BACK. Nathaniel is no longer plagued by summertime (begone humidity!) or pneumonia. We're officially in Fall Film Prestige Season and you're going to see it EVERY. DAY. Comment please for it be the coal in blogging engines and Awards Season is going to devour fuel. But before October's starting gun here are ten highlights from the scrap heap that was September (yes, there's a day and ½ left but let's pretend it's over with!), in case you're just returning to us for all the gold man fun.

Toronto Diary Amir meets Ewan McGregor and loves Frances Ha
Oscar Vintage 1975 Carol Kane lives on Hester Street
Summer Review Podcast Nick, Joe & Nathaniel discuss their favorite 2012 summer memories - two parts!
In Flight Movie Nathaniel watches The Avengers again: high altitude, tiny screen
Song Titles I Wish Were Movies a silly top ten list
Take 3: Samantha Morton Craig looks back on three key films from a truly gifted talent

Describe The Master in Three Words it's tough to do but you gave it valiant efforts in the comments
Interview: William H Macy of The Sessions on free passes, religion and "trying too hard" 

Most Discussed
Anything August: Osage County gets y'all chatting. Now filming!
Most Eyeballs
Emmy Live Blog though I should note that Melanie Lynskey's extra great guest-blogging in August was still attracting visitors well into September!

Coming in October: Oscar Horrors Season 2, Oscar madness, Oscar foreign film competition, Oscar party coverage and... well, you get the shiny golden hint. Plus: The Sessions, National Coming Out Day, Joan Cusack, Frankenweenie, Argo, Halloween Fun, more actressy goodness than you're expecting and the rest of the NYFF coverage.

Stay tuned.

NYFF: "Frances Ha" Dazzling Brooklyn Snapshot

Michael C. here to report on the first home run I've seen at the New York Film Festival. Frances Ha is the type movie experience I’m hoping for every time I plunk down my ticket money. It knows exactly what it wants to do and how it wants to do it and as a result it grabs you by the sleeve and pulls you right in. It is Noah Baumbach’s finest film to date and the big breakout due for Greta Gerwig for some time now. 

Frances (Gerwig) is a dancer who shares a Brooklyn apartment with her bestest buddy Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Pushing thirty and stalled professionally and personally, she is right at the age when spending her nights flitting around the city getting wasted with her girlfriend stops being cute and starts being a cause for concern. When events transpire to threaten Frances' holding pattern the wheels quickly come off her cushy existence.

With this film Baumbach has not expanded his style so much as smashed it into a thousand pieces and arranged them into a collage. [More...]

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Do you think Jennifer Connelly ever has nightmares about Labyrinth?

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For Your Consideration: "Central Park Five" and "The Gatekeepers"

Amir here looking at two films we should keep an eye on in Oscar's documentary race.

"The Central Park Five"

I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to judging the quality of documentaries, I have a particular bias. My favourite docs tend to be innovative films that aren’t necessarily “significant” in the grand scheme of things, like Grizzly Man or Senna, but I often find myself giving a pass to films that use a conventional structure to tell an important story, merely because thee subject matter does the work, towering above the film itself. Every once in a while, however, I’m confronted with a film that utilizes the old “talking heads intercut with archival footage” formula so powerfully that it becomes impossible to imagine it in any other way. Two such films came my way during TIFF that absolutely blew me away.

The first is Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon’s The Central Park Five, which tells the story of five black and Latino youths who were arrested in 1989 for the alleged rape and physical abuse of a white female jogger in Central Park. Despite a lack of evidence to support the charges and their youth (they were all between 14 and 17), they each ended up serving several years in prison or juvenile detention centres. In 2002, more than a decade after their first trial, the real criminal stepped out and confessed; DNA evidence supported his claim. But the irreversible damage had been done. [more after the jump...]

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