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Join Movieline’s Jen Yamato As She Livetweets From The 2011 Spirit Awards

It’s the day before the Oscars, which means that the creme de la creme of indie filmmaking are gathered on a beach to toast each other’s success at the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards. Our very own intrepid Jen Yamato has set up shop on the red carpet and in the winners’ room, so follow her @movieline as she twitters the night away. We’ll also be posting winners here, so stay tuned to see who wins the ultimate hipster filmmaker tchotchke.

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Black Swan Jetées Away With The Win At The 2011 Independent Spirit Award

A chilly pack of hipster filmmakers crowded into a tent in Santa Monica today and decided who amongst them rated as the most awesome as the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards doled out its tin eagles. Check out the full list of winners here.

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Movieline Plans This Year’s Best Supporting Actress Award, Second by Second

If you’ve been reading the Oscar Index , you realize that the Best Supporting Actress Oscar is this year’s wild card. Will Melissa Leo prevail in spite of her considerable pomp? Will Hailee Steinfeld come from behind with a victory? Will Helena Bonham Carter just be awesome always? It’s a toss-up. Movieline’s own Julie Miller and yours truly are mapping out the telecast’s most exciting award with a play-by-play of the nominee announcement, the winner, and the ensuing fight in the Kodak Theater.

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Black Swan’s Special Effects Revealed to be Often Hilarious

Black Swan is already funny. It’s got Bad Movie We Love written all over its bloody plumage. And yet, it gets funnier once you break down the special effects scene-by-scene and learn how the glittery swan sausage is made. Ahead, learn the mechanics behind Darren Aranofksy’s cygnus opus, including the Muppet Workshop antics that helped illustrate Natalie Portman’s more grotesque moments. Just like Tchaikovsky wanted.

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So Why is Black Swan a Huge Hit, Anyway? (Hint: Lesbians)

As alluded to in this morning’s edition of The Broadsheet, everyone in Hollywood seems stunned by the success story that is Black Swan . Even filmmaker Darren Aronofsky says he can’t make heads or tails of the phenomenon, which has earned recognition everywhere from manic-comic Saturday Night Live segments to the supermarket-tabloid media obsessed with star Natalie Portman (now pregnant by and engaged to marry on-screen dance partner Benjamin Millipied). “I get the teenage-girl part of the audience because it’s a coming-of-age story about a girl becoming a woman. But older people are seeing it too,” he told the LA Times . “I don’t know if even I understand it.” Oh, Darren — don’t start being modest now : Let’s hear it for lesbians!

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Mila Kunis Chows Down on Natalie Portman’s Punis in Black Swan

After finding success with The Wrestler over the 2008 holiday movie season, Darren Aranofsky is wowing critics again this Christmas with another melodrama about athletes whose difficult and dangerous physical feats have shattered their bodies and lives. Black Swan , a creepy melodrama starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as rival ballerinas and sometime Sapphic scissor sisters, has been garnering rave reviews despite its limited release and even more limited nudity (i.e. none). The skingy stars of Black Swan may have ruffled Mr. Skin’s feathers by refusing to show T&A during their beaverly awaited girl-girl face-pirouette scene but if you love lesbians, you can still jackoffsky to some Tchaikovsky with this movie. An hour and eight minutes in, the ballerina babes take the fast boat to Lesbos when they start making out in Natalie’s room. We don’t see any pubes, but things get hot and heavy with Mila makes a swan dive into Natalie’s crotch. Talk about a face dance! So if you’re a fan of A-list lesbian scenes, then go check out the ballerina-on-ballerina flick Black Swan . It won’t be your shoes that are pointe-ing!

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Natalie Portman Talks Black Swan

Playing the prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan required Natalie Portman to go through a little bit of torture.

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Audrina Patridge Recalls Embarrassing Skip Day On ‘When I Was 17’

‘It was probably one of the last times I ever ditched,’ ‘Hills’ star says. By Jocelyn Vena Audrina Patridge Photo: MTV News Audrina Patridge always came off as one of the resident good girls during her time on “The Hills,” and as it turns out, when she was a teenager, she was pretty much a good girl too — except for that one time she tried to skip school. “One day, my friends and I decided to ditch school and go to the beach, and I wrote a fake note: ‘Please excuse Audrina Patridge. She wasn’t feeling well today. Any questions, call,’ ” Patridge said on the new episode of “When I Was 17” airing this weekend, which also features “America’s Next Top Model” judge Miss J and Cee Lo Green. “So I just ditched school and I went [to the beach], and our counselor at the time called my mom and asked where I was, and so she covered for me.” While it may have seemed nice for her mom to cover for her, it turns out there was a very memorable lesson to be learned. “She told them that I was really, really sick and that I was throwing up, and she did it to embarrass me, because when they called me into the office the next day, I had to sit there in front of all of them and tell them that I was throwing up and that I had diarrhea and I had to stick to her story,” the “Dancing With the Stars” alum recalled. “It was probably one of the last times I ever ditched — first and last.” Her pal Beau admitted that the punishment probably fit the crime. “Even though Audrina did good in school, she had her, like, adventurous side,” he explained. “Her mom covered for her, but she still got what was coming to her. It was probably pretty embarrassing for her.” “When I Was 17” — this week featuring Patridge, Miss J and Cee Lo — premieres Saturday at 11 a.m. on MTV. Related Videos ‘When I Was 17’ Episode 206 Sneak Peek

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Darren Aronofsky Latest Director Rumored for Superman

The long list of eclectic directors in the running to helm the reboot of Superman has just gotten one name longer. According to 24 Frames, Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky has spoken to Warner Bros. and producer Christopher Nolan about getting behind the camera for the next incarnation of the Man of Steel. Just imagine the fun he could have with the whole Bizarro Superman subplot. [ LAT /24 Frames ]

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Postcard From Venice: Black Swan Could Stand to Go Even Blacker

The hardest thing about being an American critic covering a European festival is that almost anything you write is bound to smack of “I’m here, in a fantastic European city, seeing things that you can’t.” So here I am in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, looking at brand-new movies that many of you won’t be able to see for weeks or months, or maybe ever.

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Postcard From Venice: Black Swan Could Stand to Go Even Blacker