Argo

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La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself
The LA-set musical is well set for Oscars glory after a record-breaking Golden Globes sweep but is it really proof that the film industry is self-obsessed?

Guy Lodge

11, Jan, 2017 @4:30 PM

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Why Hollywood musical La La Land will follow Argo and The Artist to the Oscars
Whiplash director Damien Chazelle’s meta musical has won the Toronto film festival but its red carpet to the Academy Awards was already secure: Hollywood loves nothing more than a movie about how magical it is

Benjamin Lee

18, Sep, 2016 @7:14 PM

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Real-life ice cream van battle set for big-screen treatment
Writer of Argo to produce film about a culturally revealing war between Mexican and American lolly-sellers in Salem, Oregon

Catherine Shoard

11, Jul, 2016 @12:33 PM

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Hollywood studios sued for recycling old movie soundtracks
A new lawsuit claims that classic film scores have been illegally reused in films from Bridesmaids to Argo

Benjamin Lee

28, May, 2015 @11:02 AM

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Paul Greengrass heading into the Berlin Wall tunnels for real-life escape drama
British director’s next movie to be adaptation of forthcoming 1960s-set novel about west Germans trying to smuggle relatives from the east with the help of US TV crews

Ben Child

27, Oct, 2014 @1:59 PM

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Global box office: Dracula Untold too bloodless to raise opening stakes
An unproven lead and high costs could scupper Universal’s monster franchise, while Gone Girl shows topical staying power in Phil Hoad’s weekly report

Phil Hoad

15, Oct, 2014 @12:19 PM

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Toronto film festival 2014 programme release kicks off 2015 Oscar race
• Premieres for biopics of Beach Boys and Stephen Hawking
• Meaty roles for Adam Sandler, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere
• Closing night film is Kate Winslet period drama A Little Chaos

Catherine Shoard

22, Jul, 2014 @3:20 PM

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Could Ben Affleck be the hero Superman vs Batman needs?

Ben Child: Fans are horrified by the Argo director's casting in Zack Snyder's film – but he could add a surprisingly cerebral touch

Ben Child

30, Aug, 2013 @11:23 AM

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George Clooney and Grant Heslov to reunite with Argo journo on new film
Coronado High, about teen drug smugglers in San Diego, to be based on another article by same journalist who inspired Argo

Henry Barnes

26, Apr, 2013 @11:50 AM

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Argo won the Oscar, but Zero Dark Thirty is a far more serious work of art | Deborah Orr
In Argo, Ben Affleck doesn't offer the US more truth about itself than it can bear. Kathryn Bigelow's film is much more complex and demanding

Deborah Orr

02, Mar, 2013 @8:00 AM

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Oscars 2013 critics' review: 'They spread the riches and threw in some curveballs' - video

Guardian film critics Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw give their verdict on 2013's long and unusually close Oscars race

Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes

25, Feb, 2013 @9:40 AM

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Argo wins best picture despite no director nomination for Affleck

Ben Affleck's film about rescuing six Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis takes the Oscar for best film

Xan Brooks

25, Feb, 2013 @6:00 AM

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