Jay A. Fernandez , Daniel Miller The Indomina Group has acquired North American rights to Bart Layton's "The Imposter." The documentary had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. read more
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Jay A. Fernandez , Daniel Miller The Indomina Group has acquired North American rights to Bart Layton's "The Imposter." The documentary had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. read more
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This week on DVD/Blu-ray: One of the breakouts of last year's Sundance Film Festival; a moving father-son drama; Clint Eastwood's latest; a documentary that delves into the independent filmmaking movement of the '70s; and an overlooked masterpiece from Germany.
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Adopt Films continues its aggressive buying spree, nabbing U.S. rights to Jean-Marc Valee's "Cafe de Flore," starring Vanessa Paradis, just a day after acquiring U.S. rights to Christian Petzold's acclaimed "Barbara," which just won the Silver Bear for best director at Berlinale. This follows Adopt Film's pick ups of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Golden...
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Adopt Films continued its aggressive buying spree at the Berlin International Film Festival, picking up all U.S. rights to Christian Petzold's acclaimed "Barbara," which just won the Silver Bear for best director at the festival. The deal was negotiated by Match Factory’s Brigitte Su
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Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's "Caesar Must Die" surprised as the big winner of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, taking home the Golden Bear for best film. Many had begged Christian Petzold's "Barbara" or Miguel Gomes' "Tabu" as the likely winner, as both received considerable critical acclaim. Instead, "Caesar" -- a documentary about criminals...
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Amy Taubin is joining the New York Film Festival's Selection Committee. She replaces critic Dennis Lim, who concluded his three-year term. This year will mark the festival's 50th anniversary, which will run September 28 to October 14, as well as the last year under Film Society of Lincoln Center program director Richard Pe
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This week on Indiewire we hired Alison Willmore to begin TV coverage for the site; Berlinale raged on; we told you what to check out on DVD/Blu-Ray; Melissa Leo discussed playing a crazy cat lady in "Francine"; Keanu Reeves dished on his new documentary; and Lena Dunham talked "Girls." Check out all the links...
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Editor’s note: Critical Consensus is a biweekly feature in which two critics from Indiewire’s Criticwire network discuss new films with Indiewire’s chief film critic, Eric Kohn. Here, we offer an analysis of this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Film critics Shane Danielsen (whose thinkpiece on Berlin's 2012 competition section ran today) and Andrew Grant...
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Berlin may not be over until Sunday, but our Criticwire members in Germany have given us a slight sampling of what might have lasting power through the festival and even into the rest of the year. Whether the festival atmosphere or the overall quality of the films is to blame, the volume of sub-B...
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