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Jeff Kaye dies at 75; a voice for NFL Films
Los Angeles Times
If you were going to follow John Facenda on the air, you had to have a great voice. Maybe nobody could match the legendary Facenda, whose familiar baritone was called the "voice of God" when he broadcast for NFL Films. But Jeff Kaye brought it off.
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Film: Hollywood's youngest power-player
The Independent
Megan Ellison, the 26-year-old daughter of the software billionaire Larry Ellison, is being hailed as the "saviour" of cinema after distributing her largesse over a series of films whose artistic ambitions far outweigh their box-office potential. With ...
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Films in brief: The House I Live In, Starbuck, Lawrence of Arabia, Ninja Scroll
Telegraph.co.uk
Jarecki pushes his argument fiercely and further still, with none of the cheap tactics of a Michael Moore: his film's cogently buttressed with statistics, particularly flagging up the mandatory minimum sentences for crack possession, which until ...
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Films, Festivals, Friends & Fantasies Fulfilled for Which I'm Thankful
First Showing
Lucky. That's the only way to describe my place in life right now, and it's a position in which I never thought I would be. It's not that I had a bleak outlook of where I might end up after high school or even college, but reaching my dream job so soon ...
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Tabu happy being part of good films with Irrfan Khan
Daily News & Analysis
Actress Tabu, who has worked with actor Irrfan in three films Maqbool, Namesake and now Life of Pi, is happy that both of them have been part of good films together and hopes for the same in future as well. "Irrfan and I are not on screen together (in ...
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Daily News & Analysis
IDFA '12: Taskovski Films picks up Lat Am docs
Realscreen
London-based sales outfit Taskovski Films has picked up two Latin American docs at IDFA: Mercedes Moncada's Magic Words (to break a spell) (pictured) and Patricia Correa and Valentina Mac-Pherson's The Women and the Passenger. Magic Words (to ...
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Realscreen
Daniel Craig earns his licence to drive
The Independent
Which, given how quickly the DBS Aston Martin which crashed on its way to the Skyfall film set in 2008 became as flat as a pancake (remarkably leaving its driver with minor injuries), is rather a good thing. But Craig is not exempt from all the special ...
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Algerian, Lebanese films win in Doha festival
gulfnews.com
The festival, co-owned by actor Robert De Niro's Tribeca Enterprises and the Doha Film Institute, saw more than 20 films participate in the Arab Film Competition in three main categories. The award was set up to promote films and filmmakers in the Mena ...
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SPOTLIGHT FILMS: The Intouchables
The Boundary Sentinel
Seldom has someone in the audience stand up to promote a film as upcoming films were being announced at one of Spotlight's showings, but that is just what happened when they announced French film The Intouchables. The individual had seen the film ...
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Silver Linings Playbook (15)
The Independent
David O Russell's psychocomedy is a fractious, uneven affair, full of jabbering voices and clashing temperaments, and for a while I couldn't get on with it at all. Dysfunctional behaviour, however comical in tone, requires careful handling: a little of ...
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Blogs3 new results for films
 
My favorite films of 2012
By Tyler Cowen
Hollywood continues to collapse into mediocre tent pole franchises, but overall it has been a splendid year for movies. Here were some of my favorites, noting that I count by "the year I saw them" and especially for foreign films.
Marginal Revolution
Off My Mind: Multiple 'Star Wars' Films Each Year - Comic Vine
By G-Man
Should Disney follow the 'Marvel approach' and release several films each year linking to an overall bigger movie?
Comic Vine Site Mashup
10 African films to watch out for, N°12 – Africa is a Country
By Tom Devriendt
Here's another list of 10 films in the making or already finished. Two long fiction features to start with. Dakar Trottoirs (directed by Hubert Laba Ndao; left) has "surrealist characters of a paradoxical theatre intermingling in the heart of the city.
Africa is a Country


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