SXSW 2012 Report: Safety Not Guaranteed, Pavilion, and The Taiwan Oyster
All this week, Paste catches you up on the films of SXSW. Today, writer David Roark reports on three narrative films he caught there.... read more
Jamie Chung: The Best of What's Next
“What was so great about this role was, if you can relate to another human being, you can easily play this part,” says Jamie Chung at SXSW. “You just need to be vulnerable and open and empathetic.” She doesn’t seem to realize how difficult those very qualities are to achieve onscreen. read more
SXSW 2012 Report: The Babymakers, Pilgrim Song, and Fat Kid Rules the World
All this week, Paste catches you up on the films of SXSW. Today, writer David Roark reports on three narrative films he caught there.... read more
Twelve Must-See Films at Atlanta Film Festival 2012
The Oscar-qualifying Atlanta Film Festival kicks off later this year, and the lineup boasts quite a number of intriguing entries. Here are the ones that are most compelling to us:... read more
SXSW Report: Three Great Documentaries
Legendary Cuban actor Jorge Perugorria's directorial effort Amor Cronico is a tantalizing mix of documentary and narrative filmmaking that revolves around the story of the irrepressible Cucu Diamantes, the first Cuban-American singer since the revolution to be invited back to tour her native country. read more
The French (Still) Do It Better: A Roundtable with Audrey Tautou and the Foenkinos Brothers
Perhaps the directors of Audrey Tautou’s new film are closeted cultural theorists. Perhaps they read a bit of Derrida or Foucault while working on the script. Or maybe David and Stéphane Foenkinos—whose first feature film, Delicacy, premieres this Friday— are from the place where film itself began. And maybe, the French (still) do it better.... read more
Ethel: A New Kennedy Story
Call it serendipity, coincidence or a fate, but one of our nation’s most fascinating and inspiring political families happened to produce a gifted filmmaker in Rory Kennedy. She makes films of great social import, dealing with subjects from torture of war prisoners to the tangled web of immigration policy. read more
Catching Up With... Kirby Bliss Blanton of Project x
One of the biggest surprise hits of the new year so far has been teen found-footage comedy Project X,, from producer Todd Philips (The hangover, Old School). One of the film’s breakout stars has been Kirby Bliss Blanton. We caught up with the actress in a coffeeshop near her home in North Hollywood.... read more
Oscar-Winner Daniel Lindsay's Five Favorite Things About Columbia, Missouri
Last weekend we were able to catch up with Daniel Lindsay, who came back to his college town—Columbia, Missouri—to screen his documentary Undefeated at the True/False Film Fest. Just a few days earlier, he had won the Oscar for that same film. We asked him to share five of his favorite things about Columbia:... read more
Tim and Eric Want To Make You Squirm
After spreading their twisted, lo-fi humor to cartoons, music videos, commercials, talk shows and 50 episodes of their Adult Swim series, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, it was only a matter of time before Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim tackled a feature-length movie. read more
Best of What's Next: Alexia Rasmussen
On Alexia Rasmussen’s first trip to the Sundance Film Festival this year, she jumped straight into the deep end of the pool, promoting not one but two films she appeared in. She had previously appeared in another hot Sundance property, last year’s Our Idiot Brother, but had not made the trip to Park City. So this year’s festival was quite a shock.... read more
Jonathan Kite (Two Broke Girls) Takes Paste on a Tour of His Los Angeles
When Two Broke Girls won Favorite New TV Comedy at the 2012 People’s Choice Awards, it came as a surprise to many casual television viewers who lumped it in with the infamously despised Whitney. Both shows are written by comedian Whitney Cummings, to be sure, but while Whitney is annoying and borderline misogynistic, Two Broke Girls is something else altogether — an affectionate throwback to the madcap comedies of the Sixties and Seventies. As my actor friend points out, it’s basically a Laverne and Shirley update. In a good way. One of the sparks that ignites the series is the... read more
Jarreth Merz: Bringing An African Election Home
Jarreth Merz has been on quite a journey since premiering his documentary An African Election at Sundance 2011. He’s taken his film—which chronicles the tumultuous, contentious Ghanaian presidential election of 2008—to Kenya, Zimbabwe, and other African countries. read more
The Truth Behind Those Cheesy Oscar Montages
“There are so many reasons why we all love to go to the movies,” Tom Cruise said moments before revealing the Academy Award winner for Best Picture. Fast forward through a montage of dance scenes wild enough to leave every character breathless, kisses in the rain passionate enough to bring them to their knees, and tearful exchanges they – and we – will remember forever. “And the Oscar goes to… The Artist,” Cruise announces. And for the first time in Oscar history, a French actor and filmmaker take home Academy’s top acting and directing awards.... read more
2012 Academy Awards: Oscar Live Blog
Paste will be blogging throughout the Oscars tonight, collecting our favorite comments and Tweets from Paste staff and writers, comedians, musicians and more. read more
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action
From the hot, crowded streets of Calcutta to the desolate, wintry landscape of rural Norway to ripples in the space-time continuum, this year’s slate of Oscar-nominated live-action shorts are a diverse lot that uniformly focuses limited screen time on character. There’s not a disingenuous moment in the bunch.... read more
The Oscars: Nostalgic for Hope
If one word defines the films of last year, it’s “nostalgia.” From a Paris train station in the 1930s to the Ohio suburbs in 1979, moviemakers and moviegoers alike wanted to be anywhere and everywhere else but 2011. But while we all felt nostalgic for what went before us during those 12 months of denial and splendor, something more ultimately drew us to the past than the past itself—an idea of the past.... read more
2012 Oscar Preview: Who Will Win, Who Should Win
We’re proud to present our annual picks for who will win, who should win among the nominees and who really should win among all the movies that were overlooked. read more
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Documentary
Natural disasters, violence against women, the Iraq War, the Civil Rights Movement—these are some of the weighty themes explored in this year’s batch of Oscar-nominated documentary shorts. They are certainly important topics worthy of our attention. Keeping that attention, however, is another matter with uneven results.... read more
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Animation
Each day this week we’re bringing you Oscar Week coverage. Tune in tomorrow for more! One of the great pleasures of Oscar season is the opportunity to check out the short films nominated for Academy Awards. This is particularly true of the animated shorts, a consistently strong category that this year once again demonstrates a range of stunning styles from simple line drawings to computer-generated imagery. If they have anything in common, these titles seem programmed around a common nostalgic tone, and interestingly, like Best Picture frontrunner The Artist, four of the five nominees are dialogue free.... read more
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