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A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday threw out a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage passed in 2008, upholding a lower court's ruling that the ban, known as Proposition 8, violated the constitutional rights of gay men and lesbians in California.
Bilge Ebiri presents the Amadeus Blogathon.
David Hudson collects trailers for films in competition at this year's Berlinale.
And The Guardian selects 10 films from the festival to look out for .
Chris Christie's whole Jersey fat-guy authenticity thing is, um, wearing thin .
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Mitt Romney crushes Newt Gingrich with a big Florida win.
Soul Train creator Don Cornelius shot himself to death Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home. He was 75.
Photos by Renaud Monfourny.
Philip Glass is 75 and he is still an East Village staple.
Matt Zoller Seitz says Justified redresses its race problem.
MUBI rounds up reviews of Mark Cousins's The Story of Film .
Press Play contributors argue their favorite Oscar nominees.
Watch Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in Game Change .
Unease lingers amid a rebirth in Crown Heights.
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Academy Awards , Aleksandr Andriyevsky , Artforum , Crown Heights , Don Cornelius , Game Change , Hugo , J. Hoberman , Julianne Moore , Justified , Louis C.K. , Mark Cousins , Martin Scorsese , Matt Zoller Seitz , Mitt Romney , Mubi , Philip Glass , Press Play , Renaud Monfourny , Robinson Kruzo , Sarah Palin , Soul Train , The Story of Film No Comments »
The Help last night's Screen Actors Guild awards.
In other news of The Artist beat out Fincher, Allen, Scorsese, and Payne at Saturday's DGA awards.
This year's Sundance Film Festival winners have also been announced .
A look back at the film and art career of the Eiffel Tower, a 122-year-old movie star prepping for her facelift.
Matt Zoller Seitz recaps the latest episode of HBO's Luck
Over the weekend, Mitt Romney widened his lead over Newt Gingrich.
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Blake Lively , David Bordwell , Directors Guild of America , HBO , Jean Dujardin , Luck , M.I.A. , Madonna , Matt Zoller Seitz , Michel Hazanavicius , Mitt Romney , Newt Gingrich , Nicki Minaj , Rick Perry , Rooney Mara , Screen Actors Guild , Steven Soderbergh , Sundance Film Festival , The Artist , The Help No Comments »
Tune-Yards and Adele are the winners of this year's Pazz and Jop poll.
Melissa Anderson reviews Buñuel's Belle du Jour
The 10 most (and least) accurate sci-fi movies.
What even non nerds need to know about SOPA.
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Related: shut up Chris Dodd.
Abbas Kiarostami lauds the "unique success" of Ashgar Farhadi's A Separation
Keira Knightley reveals to Michael Musto the secret behind her spanking scene!
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A Separation , Abbas Kiarostami , Adele , Ashgar Farhadi , Belle du Jour , Chris Dodd , Crazy Horse , Daniel Kasman , David Bordwell , Frederick Wiseman , gay marriage , Justified , Keira Knightley , Luis Bu , Matt Zoller Seitz , Melissa Anderson , Michael Musto , Pazz and Jop , Republican Party , Santigold , SOPA , The Artist , The Criterion Collection , Tune-Yards , Wikipedia No Comments »
Tomorrow, Wikipedia is going black .
The BAFTA nominations are out .
And the American Cinema Editors have released their 2012 nominations.
Baz Luhrmann confirms that his adaptation of The Great Gatsby will be in 3D.
The lost Pasolini interview.
Cruise ship survivors share stories both harrowing and hopeful.
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Stephen Colbert announced on his show Thursday night that he will campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in South Carolina or "at least pretend to."
The Artist the big winner at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
Matt Zoller Seitz reviews Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory .
Todd Haynes is single-minded .
Roger Ebert predicts what films will be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Yes, it's been 20 years...mark your calendars .
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Academy Awards , Cinema Scope , Critics' Choice Movie Awards , Joan Walsh , Matt Zoller Seitz , Michelle Obama , Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory , Penelope Gilliatt , Roger Ebert , Sarah Weinman , Slate , Stephen Colbert , The Artist , Todd Haynes , Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 3 Comments »
Richard Brody on the cool and sober straightforwardness of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Family intrigue shadows North Korea's secretive dynasty.
Republicans across the nation are working hard to make casting a ballot in 2012 harder than ever .
For Fandor , Alejandro Adams shares his top 9 1/2 films of 2011.
For Paste , Charles McNair's 11 favorite books of 2011 .
Spanish man arrested in leak of Madonna single.
Chapter four of "Magic and Light: The Films of Steven Spielberg" by Matt Zoller Seitz, Ali Arikan, and Kevin B. Lee.
Maya Angelou's lesson about black speech.
Below, the video for Lana Del Rey's "Off to the Races":
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Ken Russell, the director behind the Oscar-winning Women in Love died on Sunday. He was 84.
Related: Dennis Lim remembers the controversial director.
Also, our own Gerard Raymond's interview with Russell from last year.
For PopMatters , Ross Langager on the cinematic myth of King Kong.
New York as seen by Stanley Kubrick.
Has Christian Bale's Batman era come to an end ?
All My Children and One Life to Live will not move online.
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A new Amy Winehouse album is set for release in December.
Palestine became a full member of the U.N. cultural and educational agency Monday, in a highly divisive move that the U.S. and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.
A skeptic comes to his senses .
Elite marathoner is right at home on the streets of New York.
Shame Tyrannosaur Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy lead the British Independent Film Award nominations.
Matt Zoller Seitz wishes The Walking Dead would shut up .
In Salon , Alex Pareene offers a new draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Janet Maslin reviews Stephen King's 11/22/63 .
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Read Frank Rich roar over Pauline Kael.
For Slate , Dana Stevens on Kael's primacy of pleasure .
And for Salon , Matt Zoller Seitz and Andrew O'Hehir debate the legacy of the influential New Yorker movie writer.
50 terrifying movie moments according to Time Out London , and the 50 best movie villains of all time according to Time Out New York .
Also on the Halloween front, The A.V. Club 's staff selects their scariest movie scenes .
This could be amazing: Kristen Wiig to star opposite Robert De Niro in Sean Penn movie.
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Andrew O'Hehir , Dana Stevens , David Lynch , Frank Rich , Kristen Wiig , Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon , Madonna , Matt Zoller Seitz , New Yorker , Pauline Kael , Robert De Niro , Salon , Sean Penn , Slate , The A.V. Club , Time Out London , Time Out New York , Twin Peaks 2 Comments »
Just in case you've been feeling deprived of ecological disasters, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Turkey yesterday, resulting in a death toll of at least 270 and leaving rescue crews frantically searching for survivors .
Right-wingers and protesters prove strange bedfellows as Republicans woo the Occupy Wall Street vote.
Meanwhile, the honorable Katy Perry is the latest celeb to visit Zuccotti Park.
Not accounting for inflation, Paranormal Activity 3 the biggest opening of any horror film in history.
Michele Bachmann's special version of the truth may be coming back to bite her .
In an effort to confiscate her moon rock, NASA makes a 74-year-old grandmother pee herself during a sting operation at Denny's.
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Abigail Breslin , Ben Affleck , Boardwalk Empire , Janie Jones , Justin Bieber , Katy Perry , Macy's , Matt Zoller Seitz , Michele Bachmann , Nasa , Occupy Wall Street , The Town , YouTube , Zuccotti Park No Comments »
A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis discuss the work and legacy of Pauline Kael.
Marilyn Nash, Charles Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux died .
Over at Salon , Matt Zoller Seitz eulogizes the death of the movie camera .
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith's Van Gogh: The Life questions if the famous artist really killed himself .
Meanwhile in Castle Greyskull, House Republicans pass controversial abortion bill that Democrats have dubbed the "Let Women Die" act.
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A.O. Scott , Abortion , Charles Chaplin , Democratic Party , Gregory White Smith , HBO , Lisa Chodolenko , Manohla Dargis , Marilyn Nash , Matt Zoller Seitz , Monsieur Verdoux , Pauline Kael , Republican Party , Salon , Showtime , Steven Naifeh , The Kids Are All Right , The Muppets , The Simpsons , Van Gogh: The Life , Vincent van Gogh 5 Comments »
Tomorrow at UC Berkeley, Roland Emmerich and his Film Anonymous writer and producer John Orloff, among others, will discuss the film's Shakespeare authorship controversy. To watch the webcast live, from 8:15 to 9:15, click here .
Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The White Shadow , which was lost for more than 80 years, has been screened in Los Angeles.
More reasons to hate heath insurance companies...and opponnents of "Obamacare."
Activists post identity of NYPD cop who pepper-sprayed Wall Street protesters at Union Square.
Matt Zoller Seitz explains how Terra Nova lets us excape the consequences of befouling Earth.
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It was the end of more than 600 years of history. On Sunday evening, amid the cheers of fans and the bloody death throes of fighting bulls, Barcelona hosted its last-ever bullfight .
The Museum of Modern Art's generous, even prodigal Willem de Kooning retrospective is the most ambitious show New York has seen in a long time.
I never thought I'd ever see these two together .
In a Bronx housing complex, doing good mixes with looking good .
Matt Zoller Seitz crawls into yesterday's episode of Breaking Bad .
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Two Americans, Shane M. Bauer and Joshua F. Fattal, arrested while hiking along the Iran-Iraq frontier two years ago and sentenced to eight years for espionage were released Wednesday on $1 million bail by the Iranian authorities, news agencies reported.
B. Kite and Alexander Points-Zollo offer a few ways of seeing of Alfred Hitchcock's impossible object, Vertigo
Please take a moment to sign the petition to help release the filmmakers arrested "for collaborating with BBC Persian."
Last night's Two and a Half Men was the highest-rated scripted season premiere since 2005.
Charlie Sheen roast tame in comparison to real Charlie Sheen.
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