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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Film / Film News Opening This Week
Posted By Matt Brunson on Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:09 PM
- Paramount
- The Guilt Trip
Wednesday
The Guilt Trip - Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen
Friday
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away - Erica Linz, Dallas Barnett
Jack Reacher - Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall
This Is 40 - Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann
Monday, December 17, 2012
Film / Film News Argo a go for SEFCA
Posted By Matt Brunson on Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM
The Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) yesterday named Argo the Best Picture of 2012 in its 21st annual voting. A dramatization of a real-life incident in which six Americans were rescued behind the scenes of the 1979-1980 Iran hostage crisis, the film earned a total of three awards, with its other victories coming in the categories of Best Director (Ben Affleck) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Chris Terrio, primarily working from a Wired article by Joshuah Bearman).
- Warner Bros.
- Actor-director Ben Affleck on the set of Argo
Besides Argo, the only other film to win more than one award was Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which earned Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor prize and also took the award for Best Ensemble.
Along with Day-Lewis, the other victorious performers were Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence as a woman still coming to terms with her husband's death in Silver Linings Playbook, Best Supporting Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as the charismatic leader of a possible cult in The Master and Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway as the long-suffering Fantine in Les Miserables.
The Wyatt Award, given annually to the "film that best evokes the spirit of the South" (past winners have included The Help, Winter's Bone and Waitress), this year went to Beasts of the Southern Wild, writer-director Benh Zeitlin's magical tale about a little girl living in the Louisiana bayou.
The remaining awards went to Moonrise Kingdom for Best Original Screenplay, The Queen of Versailles for Best Documentary, France's The Intouchables for Best Foreign Language Film, ParaNorman for Best Animated Film and Life of Pi for Best Cinematography.
The Southeastern Film Critics Association is comprised of film journalists from nine states representing the Southeastern section of the United States. This year, 48 members participated in the voting, including Charlotte reviewers Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing, Sean O'Connell, Lawrence Toppman and Harvey Burgess.
In addition to naming its Best Picture, SEFCA also releases its Top 10 for the year. The complete list of winners and runners-up in all categories is below.
BEST PICTURE
1. Argo
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Lincoln
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Silver Linings Playbook
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild
7. The Master
8. Les Miserables
9. Life of Pi
10. The Dark Knight Rises
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; plus, 12 other recent titles
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:44 PM
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
And here are some other major films still playing.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman
Monday, December 10, 2012
Film / Film News Charlotte Talks about holiday films
Posted By Web Editor on Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Local film critics Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing, Sean O'Connell of Movies.com and CinemaBlend.com and Ann Marie Oliva of Arts Ala Mode will join host Mike Collins for a discussion of the big year-end holiday movies on Charlotte Talks at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, on WFAE 90.7 FM.
The group will discuss major movies that are currently playing in theaters, such as Skyfall, Lincoln and Hitchcock, as well as films opening between now and Christmas, including Django Unchained, Les Miserables and This Is 40.
- The Weinstein Company
- Django Unchained
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Film / Arts A Warm December screens at the Gantt
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Although he's best known as an actor, activist and humanitarian, Sidney Poitier has also taken time to sit in the director's chair for a handful of films, most of them during the 1970s. While the majority of these efforts found him co-starring with Bill Cosby and/or Harry Belafonte, he tackled solo male-lead duty for this drama about a doctor who falls for a lovely - and possibly doomed - woman (Ester Anderson) while on a visit to London. Screening is a part of the Classic International Black Cinema Series.
Free with museum admission ($5-$8). Dec. 9, 2 p.m. Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, 551 South Tryon St. 704-547-3700. www.ganttcenter.org.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Hitchcock; Killing Them Softly; A Royal Affair; Rise of the Guardians
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
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- The Weinstein Company
- Killing Them Softly
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Magnolia Pictures
- A Royal Affair
Hitchcock - Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren
Playing for Keeps - Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel
A Royal Affair - Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Film / Arts Israeli film focuses on healing
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:00 AM
The Charlotte Film Society closes out its 2012 slate with Seven Minutes in Heaven (Sheva Dakot Be Gan Eden), an Israeli import set in Jerusalem. After a suicide bomber detonates himself on a crowded public bus, a woman named Galia (Reymond Amsalem) finds herself having barely survived the tragedy.
As she mourns the boyfriend who was killed in the act of terrorism and attempts to piece together her fragmented memory, she meets a stranger (Eldad Prives) determined to help her through the healing process.
$5-$8. Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m. Theatre Charlotte, 501 Queens Road. For more information, visit www.charlottefilmsociety.com.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Review: Anna Karenina; plus, film gift guide
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:28 PM
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Also, be sure to check out our coverage of worthy new box sets dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock, Mel Brooks, James Bond and All in the Family.
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