Films about the not-so-great outdoors pervade this year’s festival.
Let’s keep the voting blather to a minimum and focus on what seem to be the most pivotal factors in this year’s top race.
Stoking one’s cynicism over this category is the very real probability that Jonah Hill will be an Oscar nominee.
Going up against the queen—who’s dressed by Lisy Christl—will surely be Hugo’s Sandy Powell.
The poster knows its movie’s milieu, its genre, and its character’s superficial appetite for, well, everything.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2011, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Understanding Screenwriting #74: The Princess of Montpensier, Source Code, Meek’s Cutoff, & More
What, you forgot there was a French story in Intolerance?
Aaron Cutler, Kenji Fujishima, and Elise Nakhnikian share their thoughts via email about this year’s festival.
Film usually reveals itself to audiences with splices and scratches, while Eastwood has shown how DV printing and projection can look pristine.
Formally, Kelly Reichardt’s fourth feature is some kind of masterpiece.