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New York Film Festival 2012 Oscar Watch: 'Lincoln'

New York Film Festival 2012 Oscar Watch: 'Lincoln'

  Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln'' showed as a (not-so) "secret screening'' as a work-in-progress Monday night at the New York Film Festival. While there are many things to like about this bio-pic covering the last three months of Lincoln's...   Full Story

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  • Ben at work

    Ben at work

    In the journalism business, it takes three examples to constitute a trend. Any less than three, and you could chalk it up to fluke or coincidence....  

  • 'Frankenweenie' is a Monster piece!

    'Frankenweenie' is a Monster piece!

    ‘Frankenweenie’’ is Tim Burton’s best film in years. With this expanded, beautifully realized and highly entertaining animated version of his famous...  

  • Taken for a rotten ride

    Taken for a rotten ride

    In the surprise 2009 box-office smash “Taken,’’ Liam Neeson played a retired CIA operative who rescues his teenage daughter from Albanian white...  

  • Doesn’t even sound good on paper

    Doesn’t even sound good on paper

    ‘The Paperboy” can’t decide whether to be an unfunny sex comedy, a half-hearted detective story or a woeful race drama — so it decides to be all...  

  • "Fat Kid Rules The World" review

    The title character may be morbidly obese, but the jokes and story are thin in the coming-of-age dramedy “Fat Kid Rules the World.” Jacob Wysocki...  

  • "Trade Of Innocents" review

    In a village in Cambodia, Alex, a handsome US Army veteran (Dermot Mulroney) and his beautiful wife, Claire (Mira Sorvino), are fighting the child...  

  • Delicious tale of the tape

    Delicious tale of the tape

    What starts out as unpromising shaky-cam antics quickly turns dark and compelling in this low-budget horror showcase featuring the directorial...  

  • ‘Sister’ a thrilling Swiss miss

    Swiss director Ursula Meier’s drama dawdles at first, following its 12-year-old protagonist Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) through his every move as he...  

  • "Bel Borba Aqui" review

    ‘A sperm to a woman is like I am to Salvador,” Brazilian street artist Bel Borba muses at the start of this documentary. He’s referring to Salvador...  

  • "The House I Live In" review

    ‘it would be one thing if it was draconian and it worked,” says “The Wire” creator David Simon of America’s war on drugs. “But it’s draconian, and it...  

  • "Butter" review

    At times, the Midwestern satire “Butter” is almost funny, and in its honor I almost laughed. “Butter” is a would-be “Best in Show” of the dairy belt,...  

  • Stripped-down love tale reaches new ‘Heights’

    Stripped-down love tale reaches new ‘Heights’

    Emily Brontë’s classic tragic romance has enjoyed a mainstream renaissance lately, thanks to its shout-outs in the “Twilight” series. But this...  

  • Fresh squeezed angst

    Imagine Stanley Donen’s “Blame It on Rio” — that ’80s comedy where Michael Caine slept with his best friend’s teen daughter — taking place instead in...  

  • DVD Extra: 3-D 'Wizard of Oz' no cause for alarm

    DVD Extra: 3-D 'Wizard of Oz' no cause for alarm

    The bombshell announcement at the press conference for Warner Home Video's 90th anniversary releases: a 3-D conversion of "The Wizard Oz'' will be...  

  • Name Check with Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas

    Name Check with Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas

    On this week's "Name Check," actors Jenn Harris and Matthew Wilkas stop by The Post to chat with Michael Riedel about their independent movie, "Gayby...  

  • WATCH: Action-packed trailer for 'Lone Ranger' released

    WATCH: Action-packed trailer for 'Lone Ranger' released

    The action-packed trailer for next summer's highly anticipated movie "The Lone Ranger" is out.  Armie Hammer, who plays the title character, debuted...  

  • Dr. Burtonstein

    Dr. Burtonstein

    Oh, Shih Tzu. Sparky is probably the ugliest dog you’ll ever lay eyes on. At the Westminster Dog Show, he’d take home a blue ribbon in the coveted...  

  • Hot, twisted & tawdry

    Hot, twisted & tawdry

    She did what to him? Even if you know nothing else about “The Paperboy,” you may have heard about the film’s most gee-whiz scene — the one in which...  

  • Sing out, sister!

    Sing out, sister!

    We've come to know Anna Kendrick as the type-A chatterbox who shows up all perky and bright-eyed and launches into rapid-fire dialogue directed at...  

  • WATCH: 'Looper' is a hit, man!

    WATCH: 'Looper' is a hit, man!

    Being a contract killer is difficult, if often well paying, under the best of circumstances. For Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the retro-futuristic...  

  • WATCH: A cappella comedy hits the right notes

    WATCH: A cappella comedy hits the right notes

    "I love you awesome nerds,” says one girl to her fellow a cappella singers at the end of the college singing-group comedy “Pitch Perfect,” and who...  

  • WATCH: Spooky ‘Hotel’ goes kooky

    WATCH: Spooky ‘Hotel’ goes kooky

    The monster-humanization lobby has been active in Hollywood for some time now. (Why else would Mel Gibson still be getting work?) The latest pro...  

  • WATCH: High marks for class act

    WATCH: High marks for class act

    The rousing school-choice movie “Won’t Back Down” is (already!) inspiring teachers’ unions to protest it with its standard dial-a-mob tactics, but...  

  • The Other Dream Team

    "The Other Dream Team’’ is possibly the best documentary ever made about basketball in Lithuania. But it’s more than just a sports movie: It tells...  

  • American Autumn: An Occu Doc

    Remember “Occupy Wall Street,” the public people pileup of college students who didn’t want to pay their bills, homeless dudes following the smell of...  

  • ‘BearCity’ ready to hibernate

    The first “BearCity” was frequently described as a “Sex and the City” with gay men — specifically, the hairy, brawny or heavyset guys known as bears...  

  • Tale Owns The 'Night'

    Tale Owns The 'Night'

    The latest from French animation master Michel Ocelot is a film composed of six different tales. The framing story concerns an aging filmmaker who...  

  • Six Million And One

    Three brothers and their sister take a heart-tugging journey to Israel and Austria to trace the footsteps of their father, Joseph Fisher, a Hungarian...  

  • Solomon Kane

    Getting a token theatrical release following its video-on-demand run nearly three years after it played in Europe, this cut-rate epic in the “Lord of...  

  • NY Film Festival Preview

    NY Film Festival Preview

    A fantasy epic about a zookeeper’s son adrift at sea with a Bengal tiger. A New Jersey-set drama by the “Sopranos’’ creator that swaps rockers for...  

  • Bad apple for teachers

    Bad apple for teachers

    Maggie Gyllenhaal has built a reputation on playing edgy characters. Her breakout role in 2002’s “Secretary” featured the actress getting trussed up...  

  • Suits you, sir!

    Suits you, sir!

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Bruce Willis! Bruce Willis is Joseph Gordon-Levitt! At least for the purposes of “Looper,” the new sci-fi movie in which the...  

  • Play bawl!

    Play bawl!

    In “Trouble With the Curve,” Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” character tells “Moneyball” to get off his lawn, and it’s a baseball field. Eastwood is...  

  • Opening day review: Sara Stewart On Deeply Silly 'House at the End of the Street' With Jennifer Lawrence

    "House at the End of the Street'' was not screened for critics until Thursday night, a tactic often employed by studios trying to avoid opening day...  

  • LAPD drama worth a ‘Watch’

    LAPD drama worth a ‘Watch’

    Has any police department in the country been portrayed in a more consistently negative way than Hollywood’s hometown cops, the LAPD?  Woody...  

  • ‘The Perks’ of being a best-selling author

    ‘The Perks’ of being a best-selling author

    What’s the surefire way to guarantee you’ll be happy with the movie adaptation of your best-selling book? Keep the rights and sign on yourself as...  

  • Floored by ‘Wallflower’

    Floored by ‘Wallflower’

    While countless novelists have written screenplays, it’s extremely rare for one to also direct a film version of his own work — the only two I can...  

  • You’ll ‘Dredd’ this disaster

    You’ll ‘Dredd’ this disaster

    The Sylvester Stallone fascist police-state movies were bad enough the first time. Do they really think they’re fooling us by calling the remake...  

  • An essential look at the struggle to beat AIDS

    An essential look at the struggle to beat AIDS

    In 1987, in spite of a worldwide death toll of 500,000, AIDS was still a remote phenomenon for many Americans, unaware of the apocalyptic nightmare...  

  • Fred Won’t Move Out

    Fred Won’t Move Out

    These days Elliott Gould’s long, saturnine features have sunk beneath a turf of gray stubble, but the nasal blare of his trombone voice is exactly...  

  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

    ‘You can see the approach of revolution in clothes,” declared Diana Vreeland, the most famous fashion editor of them all. “You can see everything in...  

  • Backwards

    An Olympic rower in training, 29-year-old Abigail (Sarah Megan Thomas, also writer and producer) has spent the past 10 years locked in a rigorous...  

  • About Cherry

    About Cherry

    Dear Penthouse Forum: I was just an innocent 18-year-old blonde when my boyfriend mentioned I should take my clothes off and pose for pictures for...  

  • Radio Unnameable

    Long before Occupy Wall Street, there was Bob Fass, the legendary overnight host on WBAI whose 50-year career is lovingly saluted in the documentary...  

  • A quirky band of brothers

    A quirky band of brothers

    In “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,” half of the musical duo embarking on an eccentric US tour vows, “We’re gonna change the course of human...  

  • ‘17 Girls’ goes belly up

    ‘17 Girls’ goes belly up

    A 16-year-old girl (Louise Grinberg), beautiful and something of a ringleader among her clique, finds herself pregnant. Entranced by her fantasies of...  

  • DVD Extra: Happy 60th anniversary, 'This is Cinerama'

    The 1950s were a time of enormous turmoil for Hollywood. Movie audience -- which had peaked in 1946 -- plummeted as audiences began abandoning bijous...  

  • Toronto baits the Oscar hook

    Toronto baits the Oscar hook

    TORONTO — Many actors over the decades have received Oscar nominations playing characters with disabilities — and some have even won. There was no...  

  • Hey, Tom, your crack is showing!

    Hey, Tom, your crack is showing!

    To audiences, it would have been a lame joke in a forgettable John Candy comedy. To the Church of Scientology, it meant war. In 1991’s “Delirious,”...  

  • Indy’s last ride

    Indy’s last ride

    Director Steven Spielberg says that out of all his movies, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is one of the few he can get wrapped up in and experience like...  

  • Golden age

    Golden age

    A sad, cold wind blows across the mantle in Richard Gere’s home, sweeping through the empty space like a storm blowing across the Kansas prairie. It...  

  • Schlock market

    Schlock market

    According to all these Wall Street movies, it seems that some of these financial wizards may not be strictly on the level. A hedge-fund whiz (Richard...  

  • WATCH: Trailer for Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'

    WATCH: Trailer for Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'

    In an unusual move, Walt Disney Co.’s DreamWorks Pictures and Google Play jointly debuted the theatrical trailer for “Lincoln” Thursday. The trailer...  

  • Don’t look for reunion fable

    Don’t look for reunion fable

    The tepid high school reunion dramedy “10 Years” enlists seemingly all of Hollywood’s early-30-something actors to play the world’s best-looking...  

  • Collegiate flick flunks

    Collegiate flick flunks

    Josh Radnor is a nice-looking, button-eyed, completely harmless sitcom personality (“How I Met Your Mother,” apparently) who has gotten the...  

  • ‘The Master’ goes back to the gimmick future

    ‘The Master’ goes back to the gimmick future

    ‘The Master’’ is the first American feature film in two decades shot entirely in the archaic 70mm film format. But is this anything more than a...  

  • The Right To Love: An American Family

    No one can claim to be blindsided by director Cassie Jaye’s staunch advocacy of same-sex marriage. It’s in her documentary’s title: “The Right To...  

  • The Manzanar Fishing Club

    Well-meant but ultimately of interest primarily to devout anglers, Richard Imamura and Cory Shiozaki’s self-distributed documentary explores an...  

  • The Trouble With The Truth

    The Trouble With The Truth

    Divorced couple Robert (John Shea) and Emily (Lea Thompson) drink, eat and reignite old sparks in this intimate, honest exploration of relationship...  

  • Step Up To The Plate

    Step Up To The Plate

    Ten years after making a documentary about chef Michel Bras and his three-Michelin-star restaurant in France’s Aubrac region, director Paul Lacoste...  

  • I’m Carolyn Parker

    There may be a lot left to say about Hurricane Katrina, but if so, “I’m Carolyn Parker” doesn’t say it. Director Jonathan Demme wandered into the...  

  • Francine

    Melissa Leo, who won an Oscar for a notably talkative turn in “The Fighter,” here plays an ex-convict who scarcely speaks at all. When Leo does say...  

  • Cult hit!

    Cult hit!

    TORONTO — “The Master’’ isn’t the Scientology exposé it was rumored to be, despite speculation that its release was moved up a month to exploit the...  

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