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Karina Longworth Prefers The Human Centipede to Another Year

Mike Leigh’s Another Year , which has been met with generally positive reviews (currently 89% on Rotten Tomatoes) and even some Oscar buzz for Lesley Manville’s performance, has just received it’s first takedown from a major critic. “I haven’t seen a film this year that so openly invited me to revile each and every one of its characters — and I reviewed The Human Centipede ,” wrote Karina Longworth in LA Weekly . Not only that, her Human Centipede review was a positive one. [ LA Weekly ]

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Gone But Not Forgotten: 10 People We Lost In 2010

In 2010 the world lost a myriad of people; some activists, some singers and some actors whose legacies will continue will on for years to come. Before we rake in a new year, HipHopWired would like to take a moment to reflect on ten people who passed much too soon before we could celebrate another year of their lives. Gone but not forgotten, here are ten people we lost this year on Hip Hop Wired.

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Black Death, Red Band: Delightful New Trailer Counters Christmas with Plague

This holiday season has gone on long enough! Bring on the bubonic plague, necromancers, ritual sacrifices, eviscerations and all the other rollicking, desaturated 14th-century good times promised by the forthcoming B-flick Black Death . I know! How did this not get fast-tracked for Christmas weekend?

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Black Death, Red Band: Delightful New Trailer Counters Christmas with Plague

Nielsen: DVR Users ‘Watch’ Commercials More Than You’d Think, But Not Really

Harry Cranes of the world, prepare to have your mind blown. While conventional wisdom states that no one with a DVR would ever sit through commercials, Neilsen reports that DVR users aged 18-49 are watching more commercials than ever before. Further, commercial viewing on “younger-skewing” shows like Gossip Girl and Glee rises some 50 percent when the broadcast is watched within three days of recording. The catch? The word “watch” has a very wide definition.

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Nielsen: DVR Users ‘Watch’ Commercials More Than You’d Think, But Not Really

Mike Leigh Discusses Another Year and Why He Will Never Make a Superhero Movie

Mike Leigh has a reputation among press for not withholding his displeasure when confronted with a line of questioning he doesn’t particularly care for. So our interview began with that slight pang of trepidation, only to give way to the reality that Leigh — the six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker known for such talky, trenchant English surveys as Life is Sweet , Secrets and Lies , Naked , Happy-Go-Lucky and next week’s critically acclaimed (as usual) Another Year — is willing to talk about most any subject if he finds that subject interesting. Up to and including, say, the almost ridiculous notion of a Mike Leigh-helmed superhero movie.

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Another Year Director Mike Leigh on Golden Globes Snub: ‘We’re Not Trappist Monks Up a Mountain’

The Golden Globe nominations were the usual melange of oddities and head-shakers, but one snub has many prognosticators grumbling : Where was the love for Mike Leigh’s Another Year ? Remember: The Golden Globes thrust Sally Hawkins into the limelight after awarding her Best Actress in 2008 for her performance in Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky . This year, even though Another Year ‘s Lesley Manville just took hope the top prize at the National Board of Review awards, Leigh’s critically adored film — a story about a seemingly happy married couple that is surrounded by sorrowful personalities — was shut out of the nominations altogether. Was Leigh outraged over his film’s exclusion from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association party?

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Another Year Director Mike Leigh on Golden Globes Snub: ‘We’re Not Trappist Monks Up a Mountain’

At Cannes: Movieline Handicaps the 2010 Palme d’Or

No films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival look to be breakouts, thus, picking the winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or is a huge challenge. Have no fear, Movieline is up to the task at hand.

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Eliot Spitzer Doc, Mike Leigh’s Latest Acquired as Fest Buys Pick Up

I don’t know what it means that Tribeca and Cannes are running about even on their 2010 festival acquisitions to date, but there you have it: Alex Gibney’s terrific Untitled Eliot Spitzer Doc and Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or front-runner Another Year are both spoken for, according to announcements this afternoon.

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Eliot Spitzer Doc, Mike Leigh’s Latest Acquired as Fest Buys Pick Up

First Gratuitous Oscar Speculation Emerges From Cannes

Forget the VFX controversy — it’s time to parse the Oscar candidates among this year’s Cannes standout! Or so says Pete Hammond, who shares our Man in Cannes’ impressions that Another Year ‘s Lesley Manville and Biutiful ‘s Javier Bardem are virtual nomination locks. (Or is that just the films’ prospective buyer Harvey Weinstein working his LAT magic again?) Also: Carey Mulligan may have a Supporting Actress shot for Wall Street 2 . Here’s hoping — and for a little more effort on her behalf, if so. [ LAT ]

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First Gratuitous Oscar Speculation Emerges From Cannes

Brad Pitt Confirms the Wild Rumors You’ve Heard About Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life

The official line-up for next month’s Cannes Film Festival won’t be announced until tomorrow, but already plan on seeing the latest films from Mike Leigh ( Another Year ), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (the Javier Bardem-led Biutiful ) and maybe even Doug Liman ( Fair Game , with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts as Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame). And while cineastes and residents of the French Riviera were probably hoping for a peek at Terrence Malick’s latest project, Tree of Life , don’t hold your breath. It was supposed to premiere at Cannes — just like it was supposed to premiere last December for an Oscar run — but it looks like that might be on hold. Too bad, though, especially since star Brad Pitt has confirmed that the new film is as bananas as you would have hoped.

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Brad Pitt Confirms the Wild Rumors You’ve Heard About Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life