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The New World: a masterpiece?

10 December 2009 2:45 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Terrence Malick's The New World doesn't have fans, just fanatics – John Patterson among them. He explains the purity and beauty of this bottomless movie, which came and went in a month in the middle of the decade

This decade hasn't been up to much, movie-wise, but I am more than ever convinced that when every other scrap of celluloid from 2000-2009 has crumbled to dust, one film will remain, like some Ozymandias-like remnant of transient vanished glory in the desert. And that film is The New World, Terrence Malick's American foundation myth, which arrived just as the decade reached its dismal halfway point, in January 2006.

It's been said that The New World doesn't have fans: it has disciples and partisans and fanatics. I'm one of them, and my fanaticism burns undimmed 30 or more viewings later. The New World is a bottomless movie, almost unspeakably beautiful and formally harmonious. …

- John Patterson

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tMF Featured Trailer: Mao's Last Dancer

12 October 2009 12:36 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Audiences have danced their way into cinemas in celebration of Mao's Last Dancer's opening day, making it the biggest Australian film opening for 2009 and the 5th biggest Australian film opening ever. The success in Australia follows recent news that Mao's Last Dancer proved an audience winner at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was runner up for the highly coveted People's Choice Award won last year by "Slumdog Millionaire".

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Mao's Last Dancer is the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. Filmed in China, the Us and Australia and with a brilliant performance from Chi Cao as Li Cunxin, the film is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be free.

Watch the trailer after the jump plus more info about the movie.

Sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams and Co-distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films and Hopscotch Films, …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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tMF Featured Trailer: Mao's Last Dancer

12 October 2009 12:36 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Audiences have danced their way into cinemas in celebration of Mao's Last Dancer's opening day, making it the biggest Australian film opening for 2009 and the 5th biggest Australian film opening ever. The success in Australia follows recent news that Mao's Last Dancer proved an audience winner at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was runner up for the highly coveted People's Choice Award won last year by "Slumdog Millionaire".

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Mao's Last Dancer is the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. Filmed in China, the Us and Australia and with a brilliant performance from Chi Cao as Li Cunxin, the film is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be free.

Watch the trailer after the jump plus more info about the movie.

Sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams and Co-distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films and Hopscotch Films, …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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tMF Featured Trailer: Mao's Last Dancer

12 October 2009 12:36 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Audiences have danced their way into cinemas in celebration of Mao's Last Dancer's opening day, making it the biggest Australian film opening for 2009 and the 5th biggest Australian film opening ever. The success in Australia follows recent news that Mao's Last Dancer proved an audience winner at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was runner up for the highly coveted People's Choice Award won last year by "Slumdog Millionaire".

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Mao's Last Dancer is the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. Filmed in China, the Us and Australia and with a brilliant performance from Chi Cao as Li Cunxin, the film is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be free.

Watch the trailer after the jump plus more info about the movie.

Sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams and Co-distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films and Hopscotch Films, …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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tMF Featured Trailer: Mao's Last Dancer

12 October 2009 12:36 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Audiences have danced their way into cinemas in celebration of Mao's Last Dancer's opening day, making it the biggest Australian film opening for 2009 and the 5th biggest Australian film opening ever. The success in Australia follows recent news that Mao's Last Dancer proved an audience winner at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was runner up for the highly coveted People's Choice Award won last year by "Slumdog Millionaire".

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Mao's Last Dancer is the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. Filmed in China, the Us and Australia and with a brilliant performance from Chi Cao as Li Cunxin, the film is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be free.

Watch the trailer after the jump plus more info about the movie.

Sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams and Co-distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films and Hopscotch Films, …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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tMF Featured Trailer: Mao's Last Dancer

12 October 2009 12:36 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Audiences have danced their way into cinemas in celebration of Mao's Last Dancer's opening day, making it the biggest Australian film opening for 2009 and the 5th biggest Australian film opening ever. The success in Australia follows recent news that Mao's Last Dancer proved an audience winner at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was runner up for the highly coveted People's Choice Award won last year by "Slumdog Millionaire".

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Mao's Last Dancer is the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. Filmed in China, the Us and Australia and with a brilliant performance from Chi Cao as Li Cunxin, the film is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be free.

Watch the trailer after the jump plus more info about the movie.

Sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams and Co-distributed in Australia by Roadshow Films and Hopscotch Films, …

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Martin & Ingrid's Tiff 09 Kick-Off Party..

9 September 2009 2:31 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto: Thanks go out to Martin & Ingrid's Tiff 09 Kick-Off Party, Wednesday, September 9th @ the Gat + M.Link Festival headquarters in downtown Toronto's Yorkville, providing select wines from Bryan J. Robertson's Kingsway Brokerage Ltd., on behalf of Wild Bunch, Elle Driver, Celluloid Dreams, Film&Doc, Capri Films, The Works International & UMedia, supporting the following films screening at this year's Toronto International Film Festival: Contemporary Cinema : Rabia directed by Sebastian Cordero, will screen a world premiere with Cordero in attendance. "...South American immigrants working in Spain, builder José María and housekeeper Rosa have been together for a few weeks and are very much in love. Rosa's bosses, Señor and Señora Torres, leave their home on a trip, and the volatile José María spends a few days at the run-down mansion, fantasizing about what life with Rosa could be. When a violent confrontation with his foreman results in the other man's death, …

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7 articles from 2009

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