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10 Sundance 2013 Movies We Can’t Wait to See

By Jason Bailey on

Hold on to your hats, dear readers: the 29th annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off today in Park City, Utah. Your humble film editor is on the ground, in snow boots and several layers of sensible sweaters, with a film-going schedule that could alternately be described as “ambitious” or “insane.” Here are the ten movies that top our “must-see”… Read More

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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Flicks to See in September

By Jason Bailey on

September is kind of a peculiar month for movies. Summer blockbuster season has faded, and though the Oscar hopefuls are rolling out at the prestige fall festivals (Toronto, Venice, Telluride), most of them won’t hit theaters until at least October, to accommodate the notoriously short memories of Academy voters. So it’s a perfect month to check out some of the mid-level indies (many of them first seen at Sundance and other, earlier fests) that will hit arthouses this month; we’ve got some recommendations for you after the jump. … Read More

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This Week in Trailers: ‘Man of Steel,’ ‘Cloud Atlas,’ ‘Bachelorette,’ and More!

By Jason Bailey on

Every Friday here at Flavorwire, we like to gather up the week’s new movie trailers, give them a look-see, and rank them from worst to best — while taking a guess or two about what they might tell us (or hide from us) about the movies they’re promoting. This week’s nine new trailers include new films from Ang Lee, Tom Tykwer, and the Wachowskis, and feature the likes of Tom Hanks, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Halle Berry, Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener, Isla Fisher, Allison Janney, Oliver Platt, Gerald Butler, and Juno Temple. Check ‘em all out after the jump, and share your thoughts in the comments. … Read More

Television

Watch 'The West Wing' Cast Reunite in a Walk and Talk for a Good Cause

By Judy Berman on

Perhaps it’s because we can’t help comparing HBO’s new comedy, Veep, to it, but The West Wing has been on our minds more than usual lately. So we’re pretty excited to see that Funny or Die has reunited the cast — yes, even Martin Sheen — for one more of its signature walk-and-talks. This new clip finds Allison Janney’s C.J. Cregg commandingly marching her quick-quipping staff down the hall to the Oval Office, where President Bartlet is primed to give yet another stirring, historically minded speech. Best of all, this reunion is for a good cause: The West Wing cast is promoting Every Body Walk!, a fitness initiative aimed at getting all Americans to spend half an hour a day walking. (Walk and talk, Every Body Walk! — see what they did there?) Watch the video after the jump. … Read More

Film

This Week in Trailers: ‘American Reunion,’ Pixar’s ‘Brave,’ and More

By Jason Bailey on

Every Friday here at Flavorwire, we like to gather up the week’s new movie trailers, give them a look-see, and rank them from worst to best — while taking a guess or two at what they might tell us (or hide from us) about the movies they’re promoting. We’ve got ten new trailers for you this week, including the American Pie sequel (yes, another one) American Reunion, the end-of-the-world thriller 4:44 Last Day on Earth, a new indie featuring (and produced by) Nick Offerman, and the latest effort from the fine folks at Pixar. Check ‘em all out after the jump, and share your thoughts in the comments. … Read More

Film

10 Ridiculously Long-Delayed Movies

By Jason Bailey on

This Friday is a day that Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, and Allison Janney probably thought would never come: the release date of Margaret, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s long, long, long awaited follow-up to his 2000 debut film, the Oscar-nominated You Can Count on Me. Shot clear back in 2005 (and capturing Paquin pre-True Blood and Damon at around the time he shot The Departed), the picture has spent the last six years in a perpetual state of post-production, with most parties involved blaming the perfectionist writer/director, who has seemed unable or unwilling to settle on his contractually-guaranteed final cut.

Meanwhile, Fireflies in the Garden, the familial drama starring Ryan Reynolds and Julia Roberts, is finally getting a release as well this fall — three years after its debut at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. (Its extended delay appears to be the collateral damage of its original production company’s shutdown.) With both of those dawdling dates finally coming into view, we thought we’d take a look at a few other movies that took (or are taking) a bit longer than the standard one-to-two-year gestation period to make it to the big screen (or to your television). … Read More

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New York Film Festival, Part 2: Antichrist, Everyone Else, Life During Wartime

By Chris Kompanek on

There are always films that people can’t stop talking about long before a festival begins. At this year’s New York Film Festival, Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist (screening this weekend) has such an honor. After a packed showing at Cannes that shut out many members of the press, those who saw it couldn’t stop talking and blogging about how, well, revolting it… Read More

Theatre

9 to 5: The Musical to Close on Broadway

By Caroline Stanley on

This just in from the New York Post: “The musical version of 9 to 5, which probably seemed like a good idea way back when, will close around Labor Day, several theater sources say.”  They’re also estimating the cost of the show — which opened back in early April — at $14M.

When we met Allison Janney (who stars as Violet Newstead, the role played by Lily Tomlin in the original film version), at the press day for Away We Go, she looked fantastic, but said that she was incredibly tired from the grueling two performance per day schedule. (In fact, she said it was much harder than working on The West Wing, because there was less down time and waiting around.) … Read More