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50 Years Later, What’s the Greatest Scene in Judgment at Nuremberg?

So, 1961 gave us some of my favorites, including the torrid Splendor in the Grass and the damn swanky One Hundred and One Dalmatians . (Both feature barking, well-pedigreed protagonists in Pongo and Natalie Wood’s histrionic Deanie Loomis.) But the staggering dramatic achievement of 1961 was neither teenage melodrama nor an animated canine caper — it was Judgment at Nuremberg , Stanley Kramer’s sprawling epic chronicling the post-WWII war trials. Since the movie came out in theaters 50 years ago this week, let’s revisit its staggering scope. What’s its best scene?

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50 Years Later, What’s the Greatest Scene in Judgment at Nuremberg?

Talkback: Was It Wrong To Use Kim Jong-il’s Death For Free Dictator Publicity?

The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il this past Sunday inspired hope in some and fear (that Kim’s mysterious 20-something son Kim Jong-un will continue his father’s tyranny) in others. But for Sacha Baron Cohen — the comedic actor/writer/producer who reveled in staging uncomfortable situations in his mockumentaries Borat and Brüno — Kim’s death inspired a publicity push for his upcoming comedy The Dictator .

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Wim Wenders on Pina, 3-D Epiphanies and Until the End of the World at 20

After more than four decades of creative peaks, valleys, experiments and triumphs that have established him as one of the most eclectic filmmakers of his generation, Wim Wenders has ventured into entirely new territory for his new documentary Pina : 3-D. The film’s subject — the late, legendary choreographer (and Wenders’s longtime friend) Pina Bausch — likely wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

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Wim Wenders on Pina, 3-D Epiphanies and Until the End of the World at 20

Watch Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes in Their First Collaboration: Drunk History Christmas

If you worship at the altar of tabloid courtships, you know that Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have been linked romantically since working together on Derek Cianfrance’s crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines earlier this year. But thanks to a new Funny or Die video, gossip hounds won’t have to wait until 2012 to see the rumored couple together onscreen. Check out the pair’s first official collaboration below, appropriately titled “Drunk History Christmas.”

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Janusz Kaminski on Shooting War Horse, Avoiding 3-D, and Those Spielberg Close-Ups

For most of the last 18 years as Steven Spielberg’s go-to cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski has held one of the sweetest creative gigs in Hollywood. The post has netted the Polish D.P. two Academy Awards (for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan , plus an additional nomination for Amistad ) and credits on some of the most commercially successful films of the last generation, but more than that, it has made Kaminski’s eye the one through which audiences witness Spielberg’s influential vision of the past, present and future. It’s a huge responsibility. It’s also a singular opportunity.

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Charlize Theron Reveals Secret Oscar Recipe; Let’s Make Our Own!

Charlize Theron’s Best Actress Oscar win in 2003 was hardly unexpected. Roger Ebert had declared her performance as Aileen Wuornos in Monster “one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema,” and she cleaned up at the Golden Globes and Independent Spirit Awards. But there’s no denying that Theron’s win followed in a certain Oscar tradition, and in this funny clip with MTV, Theron acknowledges it as such. Let’s compare notes with the Young Adult star and come up with our own recipes for Oscar victories in the big four acting categories.

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