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“Laurence Olivier’s screenplays for a 1950s film version of Macbeth that was never made have been found at the British Library. … Prior to this, the manuscripts were thought to have been lost because Olivier recalled all of the distributed copies after the film was shelved during the final stages of production in 1958.”

“Earlier this month, the conventional wisdom was that Kathryn Bigelow’s hunt-for-Osama bin Laden film was the one to beat.” Since then, Ben Affleck’s Iran-hostage drama Argo has developed momentum, especially after big wins at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. “What’s going on? Well, the truth is, it has probably been over for Zero Dark for a while now.”

The winners are familiar – though spread out over many films – in the award march toward late February.

Mixed martial arts movies – called “fightsploitation” – enter the mainstream, or at least aspire to.

“It’s a cautionary tale about how to talk about a feature film that uses reporting. Bigelow has called it a ‘reported film,’ thus a lot of observers–fairly or not–have held the movie to the standards of a piece of reporting, and no feature film can meet those standards.”

“La Bohème beat Gangster Squad into third place at the box office this month. And The Nutcracker came ahead of the latest Bond film, Skyfall, when it was shown last month.”

Maybe, but those directors say “they are looking forward to a day when no one makes a big deal about how many women filmmakers there are at Sundance.”

“The Motion Picture Association of America is pressing the federal government to legalize Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use in the film industry.”

It’s Toronto vs. Vancouver in an all-out Indian film awards battle.

“Because the plays continually require inquiry, and because they touch on so much of what it means to be human, their study can make as good a moral, philosophical or spiritual education as might possibly be had.”