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Noah Baumbach Directs for Saturday Night Live?

For a director who works as infrequently as Noah Baumbach, a misfire always adds insult to injury. It's been a little over a year since he disappointed us with the so-difficult-it-caused-migraines Margot at the Wedding, and yet...

Lone Star Film Fest announces competition winners, honorees

Visual Acoustics - Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment took home the statue for Best Foreign Language Film. The awards ceremony - hosted by the Worthington Hotel - also saw the presentation of the Lone Star Rising Star Award to...

Documenting Lies: Ellen Kuras

Ellen Kuras started filming Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family in 1984, when Thavi was 21, shortly after they fled Laos and landed in Flatbush. The result, The Betrayal, is a moving documentary about refugee life in America....

Jon Axworthy enters the weird world of competitive speedcubing

As world record holders go Erik Akkersdijk isn't exactly a household name. Erik is one of a rare breed of speedcubers who, last weekend, in an Old Trafford hospitality suite, came together for the UK Open, the kind of...

Movie Review: Suffering for - and from - his art

In the film, Philip Seymour Hoffman, second from right, has hired actors, played by Emily Watson, left, Samantha Morton and Tom Noonan, to perform in his play, a project that continues for 40 years. ABBOT GENSLER I can't...

Chernov’s choice

While worrying rumors keep circulating about local promoters canceling international acts in light of the economic crisis, wonderful things can still happen. Spiritualized, the renowned British space-rock band, arrives,...

Flaming Lips blast off to 'Mars' with film

Christmas on Mars opens on a psychedelic sequence of cosmic musical deliriousness composed by the Flaming Lips, the 25-year-old Oklahoma indie-rock band. Though all the members of the band participate in this project, don't...

Amelie, Jr.

Super cute French kid ad-libbing a fantastic story with crocodiles, monkeys, and Winnie the Pooh. I hope she got license clearance for those copyrighted characters. More about the video here at videogum. (thanks, John Walsh!)...

Kaufman: 'This is your movie now. I'm done with it'

Interviewing Charlie Kaufman is like sprinkling salt on a slug. Each question seems to lay a psychic burden on the 49-year-old writer-director's soul; answers emerge painstakingly from some dark well within. Often, he'll...

An excellent cast brings Kaufman's surreal storytelling to life

By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic Charlie Kaufman practically made himself a brand name with his ingenious screenplays for "Adaptation," "Being John Malkovich," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (he got an Oscar...

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