The Australian drama Beneath Hill 60 was named Best Narrative Feature at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival. Jeremy Sims was named Best Director for the independent film, which tells the […]
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Review: ‘Blue Valentine’
If Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams don’t receive Oscar nominations for their performances in Blue Valentine, it will be damning evidence in the case against Academy politics and the institution’s […]
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A review: ‘The Conspirator’
Wednesday night’s feature at the Savannah Film Festival – kept secret until just before the projector rolled – was The Conspirator, the Civil War drama helmed by Robert Redford here […]
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Extreme closeup: Zach Gilford
The final season of Friday Night Lights hasn’t finished airing, but the NBC drama’s young star, Zach Gilford, is knee–deep in his next show. Off the Map, a new medical […]
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Extreme closeup: Isabella Rossellini
Even when you’re talking about bugs, sex sells. Green Porno, produced for the Internet and TV On Demand by the Sundance Channel, began in 2008 as a series of short, […]
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Extreme closeup: Blue Valentine
Since its premiere last January at Sundance, Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine has been snowballing down the big hill of industry buzz – it was the talk of Cannes, Toronto, London, […]
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Savannah Film Festival: SCAD student shorts II
The Candidate A cautionary tale about ambition and the perils of the corporate ladder that would have fit right into an episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. A young office […]
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Savannah Film Festival: The final reel
As we head into the second and final week of the 2010 Savannah Film Festival, the one question on everyone’s lips is: Will he or won’t he? Will Sir Ian […]
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Lights, camera… action!
It’s time once again for one of Savannah’s favorite yearly events, the Savannah Film Festival. Hosted by SCAD and sponsored in part by the City of Savannah as well as […]
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Savannah Film Festival 2010
There is, of course, a little bit of Hollywood in all of us. The annual Savannah Film Festival taps into that tendency to admire and vicariously participate in the cinematic […]
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Extreme closeup: Vincent D’Onofrio
Although television — more specifically, Law and Order: Criminal Intent — has been his bread and butter for the past nine years, actor Vincent D’Onofrio is making a concerted effort […]
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Extreme closeup: ‘Beneath Hill 60’
One of the most fascinating — but curiously little–known — chapters of military history came during World War I in Belgium. In an attempt to break the stalemate of trench […]