At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, a disdain for Hollywood movies bumps up against a hunt for celebrities -- and wild boars.
By Stephanie Zacharek Feb 9, 2009
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The wisecracking TV host and trophy husband proves he can act in "Spread," a deceptively dark SoCal sex satire
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 13, 2009
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Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 25, 2009
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Danish bad boy's gruesome horror venture outrages some, thrills others. In other news from 1995, "Piano" director debuts a poetic period piece, Francis Coppola goes indie and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 18, 2009
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An Irish horror-romance-farce, an Iranian take on "L'Avventura," a gritty lesbian thriller, a black-and-white jazz musical -- and go-kart racing.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 5, 2009
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An Israeli film explores the ambiguous death of Rachel Corrie, peacenik angel to some and "terrorist-loving swine" to others.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 3, 2009
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Foulmouthed Geena Davis can't save a suburban yarn made by aliens (or Australians); a mythic fable of desert greed; a neo-retro horror delight.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 29, 2009
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Newly downsized and shorn of Hollywood glitz, Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival remains a vigorous venue for cinematic discoveries.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 24, 2009
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Park City's hottest films, from a glittering early-'60s girlhood to a pulse-pounding Mexican gang thriller, Jim Carrey as a gay con man, the Wounded Knee occupation and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 26, 2009
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The filmmakers behind "The Cove" discuss the shocking Sundance documentary that may forever change how we feel about dolphins in captivity.
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 22, 2009
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After Obama, it was back to the '80s at Sundance, from the hideous Bret Easton Ellis nightmare "The Informers" to Greg Mottola's delightful rom-com "Adventureland."
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 21, 2009
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Actors Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard talk about their challenging task in the button-pushing Sundance hit "Humpday."
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 21, 2009
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At Sundance, a star-studded, utterly deranged gay love story caps the opening weekend. But a dazzling tale of girlhood in '60s London steals the show.
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 19, 2009
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Ashton Kutcher sells body but not soul in dark, sexy "Spread"; Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere and Don Cheadle play good-cop, bad-cop; Anna Wintour, human being!
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 18, 2009
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Sundance opens: Straight buds dare each other to go all the way in "Humpday"; claymation "Mary and Max" paints a pen-pal friendship in loving shades of bird poop.
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 17, 2009
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I'm off to the mysteriously non-cold Utah slopes to see Jim Carrey go gay, Ashton Kutcher play a gigolo and Paul Giamatti sell his soul. Did somebody say recession?
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 15, 2009
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From Clint's "Changeling" to Soderbergh's "Che" and beyond, the New York Film Festival sets the table for the fall's Oscar hopefuls, art-house maybes and wild-eyed cinematic rebels.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 25, 2008
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Asia's greatest cinema power never really lost its mojo. But 10 years after Kurosawa's death, Japanese movies are hotter (and weirder) than ever.
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 2, 2008
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What art-house recession? Sony Classics buys Israeli animation, boxing doc, Belgian crime drama. IFC grabs "Gomorrah," but no word on "Che," "Synecdoche."
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 29, 2008
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In this interview and podcast, Julianne Moore talks about being a normal mom and her distinctly abnormal role in the incest-murder drama "Savage Grace."
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 29, 2008
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Laurent Cantet's joyful, tragic "The Class" is the first French Palme d'Or winner in 21 years; Benicio del Toro named best actor for "Che."
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 26, 2008
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Argentine director Lucrecia Martel talks about her intriguing class-war drama "The Headless Woman" and its hostile reception at Cannes.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 25, 2008
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Messy, unfinished and utterly mesmerizing, Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che Guevara opus, starring Benicio del Toro, sets Cannes buzzing.
May 22, 2008
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In this podcast from Cannes, director James Gray talks about his intriguing romantic drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 21, 2008
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Eastwood and his pregnant star bring their moody 1920s L.A. thriller to Cannes. But what's it called?
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 20, 2008
Searching for Clive Owen
Ashton Kutcher, American gigolo
Exit the dragon
Cannes roundup: Lars von Trier and Jane Campion ... they're ba-a-ack!
Tribeca: Best of the fest
Rorschach "Rachel"
Tribeca: From fake suburbia to Vegas, with devil worship
Handicapping Manhattan's spring movie fling
The best of Sundance '09
Who killed Flipper?
Don't you want me, baby?
"Two straight dudes getting it on"
Jim Carrey's epic romance (in prison)
Your Sundance gigolo report
Dude + dude = porno!
Downsizing hits Sundance
Angelina, Mickey Rourke and disco madness 
Japanese film's not-so-new new wave
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