NEW YORK – It may not have been the most conventional audition ever, but it did land Eva Mendes the role.
Sitting down with us a few weeks ago to talk about her role in Derek Cianfrance's ("Blue Valentine&...
In a couple of months Sony Pictures Classics will be releasing Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight." It's an interesting project, as you know, in that it reunites the director with actors Ethan Hawke and Ju...
Previous collaboration: “Gone Baby Gone” (2007)
Why Ben should: No disrespect to the Oscar-winning “Argo” director, who has a sure hand with actors, but he’s not his own best leading man...
This is embarrassing.
Not for me, of course. I'm not the one who hit delete on whatever folder led to the desperate phone call I got at 4:30 in the afternoon on Saturday. I'm actually pretty flattered, ...
It's common knowledge that January is a cruel month for moviegoers -- assuming you can't just jet off to Sundance for the hell of it, once you've caught up with the late-releasing awards titles, there's little left to...
With awards season now unavoidably under way -- the Oscar nominations are just over six weeks away, if you can get your head around that -- I'm facing the possibility of another year where few of my personal favorites...
Yep, folks, we're in Top 10 season already, and the first major list to land is both one of the longest-running and the most reliably eccentric: that of leading French cinephile magazine Cahiers du Cinéma....
Variety's Jon Weisman has fallen a little bit in love with "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." As have many people, including us here at In Contention. Yet the film isn't even being mentioned as a dark-horse ...
While I was at Fantastic Fest last week, "Holy Motors" screened five or six times, and they kept adding screenings later in the schedule. It was wildly impressive to see how many people fell in love wi...
Right, we're almost there. All 22 Competition films have been screened, the crowds are starting to thin out and France's rosé reserves are in urgent need of refilling. In less than 24 hours, the 65th Cannes Fil...
