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Weekend Roundtable: Screen Legends Who Never Won Oscars

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:00:51 +0000

Earlier this week, Glenn Close was denied the Academy Award that everybody thought she’d win. The actress can take comfort that this puts her in good company with plenty of other veteran actors and filmmakers who also somehow went without ever winning an Oscar in competition. Maybe Close will get an honorary or lifetime achievement...

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Now Playing: Get Stoked for ‘Stoker’

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:00:22 +0000

Since I saw his film ‘Oldboy‘ in 2003, Park Chan-wook has been one of my favorite directors. I was in complete awe of that movie and immediately needed to find out what else he had done. Upon some research, I ended up buying ‘Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace’, and loved that flick too. Since then, I’ve...

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Sundance Journal: ‘Stoker’

Aaron Peck — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:00:36 +0000

Was there any doubt that Korean director Park Chan-wook would create a stunningly attractive yet creepy movie for his first English language picture? No. Was I expecting as much of a Hitchcock homage that I got? Most certainly not. But it’s there. ‘Stoker’ is a beautifully bloodied version of Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt‘. Park...

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