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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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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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Award-winning Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos was killed yesterday in a road accident.
The director's career in clips .
Lana Del Rey...can she live ?
Related: And it begins .
How Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics.
Why do we lock up so many people ?
Sundance announces the jury prizes and honorable mentions in short filmmaking.
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Etta James passed away today. She was 73.
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott discuss The Village Voice and film culture with and without J. Hoberman.
The Pulitizer Prizes are worthless .
Harry Reid postpones Senate vote on PIPA anti-piracy bill.
Nanni Moretti named jury president for the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
For realz, imagine Mitt Romney doing this .
Click here for images from some of the films in the Museum of Moving Image's showcase of David Cronenberg's work.
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Todd Haynes talks the contemporary parallels of Mildred Pierce
Glenn Kenny relates to Steve McQueen's Shame
The DVDs and Blu-rays of 2011 according to Sight & Sound .
James Franco sucks cock in The Broken Tower .
Madonna reveals new album title.
Slate 's Katherine Goldstein recalls sitting in the back of a car with Arianna Huffington.
For Salon , Glenn Greenwald on the application of the word "terrorism" by Iran.
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A study finds that marijuana smoke is not as damaging as tobacco.
Rick Santorum's communist clan in Italy speaks out .
Mitt Romney says New Hampshire results show attacks on him failed.
The American Society of Cinematographers has announced the nominees for the 26th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards.
It's really safe to travel Down Under.
AMC is developing a series based on Goodfellas .
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Among the new Academy rules pertaining to documentaries vying for Oscar consideration: they require a Los Angeles Times or New York Times review.
Another day, another list from the folks at Paste . This time they chose the 11 best sketch comedies of all time.
And The L Magazine unveils their 2011 film poll.
Michał Oleszczyk takes a plunge over at Roger Ebert's site.
The National Society of Film Critics selected Lars von Trier's Melancholia
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The Producers Guild of America announced its 2011 nominations yesterday. Snubbed: The Tree of Life Drive Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close The Ides of March The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Bridesmaids
Speaking to Vulture , Hugh Jackman dishes on Broadway, Sydney's Tropfest, and the mounting, motivating pressures of the Les Miz movie.
Martin Scorsese will receive BAFTA's highest honor, the Academy Fellowship, at the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Feb. 12.
The Republican field is narrowing following Mitt Romney's Iowa win.
Over at his blog, Only the Cinema , Ed Howard unveils his list of the top 50 albums of 2011.
This is what you get when an artist "marries Barbie's overconsumption lifestyle with a hoarder's reality."
Obama bucks the GOP and appoints Richard Cordray to lead new consumer watchdog agency.
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The Tree of Life big winner with the Online Film Critics Society.
Related: Storyboards from Terrence Malick's film reveal abandoned early-life sequence with Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel.
Darren Hughes interviews James Benning about Twenty Cigarettes
Meryl Streep to be celebrated at Berlinale this year.
John F. Kennedy Jr. asked Madonna to pose as his mother.
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Slate gives us "The Year in Cads," starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anthony Weiner, and Kim Kardashian.
IndieWire offers the top 10 "Filmmaker Toolkit " articles of 2011.
The Democrats' unwavering focus on Mitt Romney may be paying off.
Jim Emerson shares the precise moments when he fell in love with a handful of 2011's best movies.
Behold the shirtless evolution of Sylvester Stallone.
Michele Bachmann talks about her favorite gun .
For The New York Times , Nelson George discusses Pariah
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The year in pictures , courtesy of The New York Times .
Paste counts down the 100 best Twitter accounts of 2011. Ellen Barkin, surprisingly enough, is missing from the list.
At Fandor's Keyframe blog, Kevin Lee hosts an "End of Year Party" packed with contributors' top ten lists.
Mitt Romney, who recently won the support of one George H.W., won't be showing you his tax returns.
For Towerload, Nathaniel Rogers whips up a list of the year's best LGBT film characters.
Steve Jobs is going to receive a posthumous Grammy Award.
The first—and very familiar—trailer for Ridley Scott's Prometheus is here .
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The Golden Globes have announced their nominations and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life
Related: Nine observations about the nominations.
Madonna inks new label deal for March album.
The films of Steven Spielberg, an introduction by Matt Zoller Seitz, Ali Arikan, and Serena Bramble.
Armond White on embargo blues .
Every film on this list that I've seen is indeed terrible.
Because 25 is too little, and 100 to gluttonous, PopMatters gives us their 75 best albums of 2011 .
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Los Angeles endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, 61, is braving shark-infested waters for a 103-mile swim from Cuba to Key West. She's doing it to seek redemption. She's doing it to prove that you're never too old to go for it.
Stocks post gains in break from gloom on Wall Street.
As the rioting in London widens, Prime Minister David Cameron deploys 10,000 more police.
Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered the expulsion of a man who is the primary caregiver to his AIDS-afflicted spouse.
Tom McCormack reveals what Avatar
A second competitor died Monday after apparently having had a heart attack during Sunday's New York City Triathlon, prompting review of race protocol.
Sean O'Neal addresses concerns about The Onion 's new five-pages-per-month paid content system.
As debate goes on, amputee Oscar Pistorius will break barrier .
Mitt Romney's front-runner perch is looking shaky .
At least wait until after breakfast to light up.
A.O. Scott on Robert Altman's M*A*S*H
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Cuba opening to private enterprise spurs service sector start-ups.
One hundred seventy people arrested in in London after two nights of rioting.
Matt Zoller Seitz is having doubts about Breaking Bad .
The abortion that Mitt Romney doesn't talk about anymore.
Listen to Björk's "Virus" here .
Eric Kohn, from the Locarno Film Festival, interviews Abel Ferrara.
Mark O. Hatfield, a liberal Republican who challenged his party's positions on the Vietnam War and on a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution during his 30 years as a Senator from Oregon, died on Sunday in Portland, Oregon. He was 89.
Give your support to the queer screening series "Dirty Looks."
A Nicholas Ray blogathon has been announced .
If you went to see "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" this weekend, you were probably on line for a long time .
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Get this: Mitt Romney is unemployed .
Emmanuel Lubezki warns of a six-hour cut of The Tree of Life
Elvis Mitchell lands on his feet yet again.
The Killing needs fixing .
Larry Flynt gives Anthony Weiner an offer he'll probably refuse.
The New York Times reviews Andrew Rossi's Page One: Inside the New York Times
Rye Rye gets a visit from Robyn.
A reminder that not all Republicans suck.
Who thought it was a good idea to have Rob Zombie direct a Woolite commercial?
That was fast:
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