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By Matt Prigge

PW Sits Down With "Rampart" Director Oren Moverman

Oren Moverman has directed only two features, namely 2010’s The Messenger and the new Rampart. But his name has popped up elsewhere. Moverman’s largely served as a screenwriting collaborator on oft-structurally adventurous projects. Moverman talked to us after this year’s annoyingly safe Oscar race failed to nominate Woody Harrelson for his arguably career peak work.

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Posted Feb. 22, 2012 | Comments: 0
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By Sean Burns

Rounding Up the Best from the Sundance Film Festival

It was all anybody was talking about in line. See, you wait in line an awful lot at the Sundance Film Festival, and that’s where complete strangers kept approaching me and asking if I’d yet seen Beasts of the Southern Wild. A bona fide overnight sensation, writer-director Benh Zeitlin’s defiantly idiosyncratic debut picture became the toughest ticket in town after its first, rapturously received public screening.

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Posted Jan. 31, 2012 | Comments: 0

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By Sean Burns

"War Horse": Steven Spielberg Is a One-Trick Pony

The most prodigiously gifted craftsman of his (or perhaps any) generation, Spielberg too often undercuts himself with a weird, seemingly pathological need to pander, simplify and work over the audience’s emotions in bold, blunt strokes unbecoming of such a graceful technician. Yet there’s still no denying that he’s ridiculously fucking good at it.

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Posted Dec. 21, 2011 | Comments: 2

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By Sean Burns

Q&A With "Shame" Director Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen doesn’t suffer fools gladly. A large, contentious British black dude who appears to have just wandered over from a Guy Ritchie movie, the former video instillation artist also co-wrote and directed one of this year’s most indelible films.

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Posted Dec. 6, 2011 | Comments: 1
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