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Carey Mulligan to Work With The Coen Brothers, Spike Jonze

Since Carey Mulligan's breakthrough role in An Educationin late 2009, she's been consistently busy with various projects like Never Let Me Go, Drive and Shame, which will be released this December.  read more

The Total Poser's Guide to the 2010 Oscars Best-Picture Nominees

Uh-oh. The Oscars are tomorrow and you haven't seen a single one of the best-picture nominees...  read more

Shooting Starlets: Three Soon-to-be Leading Ladies

Young actresses these days are more likely to get press for...  read more

Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air, More Lead BAFTA Award Nominations

It’s easy to get caught up in all the Oscar talk and predictions swirling around on U.S. soil, but believe it or not, there are other movie-award shows out there. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that hosts an annual awards ceremony quite similar to the Oscars. This year’s awards will be presented this Sunday, Feb. 21, and many of the contenders should sound really familiar to American ears: titles like Up In The Air, An Education, The Hurt Locker and, you guessed it, Avatar....  read more

An Education

It’s been said many times that 50 percent of a movie director’s job is casting...  read more

25 Indie Films to Catch This Fall

Sure, we can't wait for Where the Wild Things Are and The Road. But not all of the movies worth watching this fall will be hitting the megaplex. Here's our guide to 25 indie films to catch before Christmas....  read more

Sundance 2009: Film Round-Up

Sundance Film Roundup Narrative Films An Education Nick Hornby wrote the script for An Education, so you’d expect the dialogue to be superb, and it is. (Although, it’s a strange choice to adapt someone else’s book instead of one of his own; he’d “rather mess up other people’s stories.”) And newcomer Carey Mulligan is spectacular in the leading role, so good that if I had seen the film earlier I would have made a point to see The Greatest, another Sundance selection starring Mulligan. In this one, though, she plays a schoolgirl who begins to spend time with an older...  read more

Sundance 2009: Award Winners

Moments ago in Park City, Utah, the Sundance film festival announced the winners of its 2009 awards. While the noisiest competition at Sundance often seems to be the one among distributors vying for marketable films, or the one among filmmakers trying to drum up interest in their movies, Sundance also referees an official competition in which juries choose their favorites of the eligible films. Of the many prizes awarded by juries, the most prestigious are the two "grand jury prizes" for American dramatic and documentary films and the two "world cinema jury prizes" for foreign dramatic and documentary films. Each...  read more

Amid grim forecast, Sundance acquisitions move forward

As sober financial outlooks continue to soften expectations for the business side of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the events have gone forward at full charge. For critical feedback, keep tuned to our Festivus blog as Paste’s chief film critic Robert Davis continues to provide rolling commentary....  read more

Sundance announces 2009 selections

Sundance may not be the biggest film festival around, nor is it even the most independent anymore with the preponderance of festivals like Slamdance. But it probably has the most cultural cache, and even with the current independent film distribution problems it's still one of the places people search for new talent. With the festival only 42 days away, the folks behind it have announced its selection of 118 feature-length films. Below are the films in contention for documentary and "dramatic" (i.e. non-documentary) features....  read more