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Tyler Perry's Precious Wins Top Award at Toronto Film Fest

By Emily Riemer on 11:00 AM on September 22, 2009

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire won the Toronto Film Festival's top honor this past Saturday, their People's Choice Award, which is voted on by filmgoers.... read more

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Salute Your Shorts: Tezuka Osamu's Experimental Animation

By Sean Gandert on 4:00 PM on August 6, 2009

With Phil Mulloy’s films, it’s easy to see the gradual development of an artist. Even though he’d been working in the industry for years, Mulloy’s animation had a textbook level of gradual improvement that’s easy to follow from point A to B. By the time Osamu Tezuka began working in animation, he was already a widely popular manga artist and seemed to arrive fully formed... read more

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Push

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 1:30 PM on February 9, 2009

By turns frantic and somber, the resolutely convoluted thriller Push... read more

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Sundance 2009: Award Winners

By Robert Davis on 9:49 PM on January 24, 2009

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

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