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22 May 2012 2:03 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

The Innocents communion: possessed Martin Stephens, Christian Deborah Kerr Deborah Kerr Pt.3: Socially Dubious Desires Later on, in the television miniseries A Woman of Substance (1984) and its follow-up, the TV movie Follow the Dream (1986), Deborah Kerr played a former kitchen maid-turned-businesswoman who didn’t reach the top by being all chaste and poised along the way. (Jenny Seagrove played the character as a young woman.) And once at the top, Kerr’s tycoon does whatever she feels necessary to remain there. Admittedly, Deborah Kerr didn’t create any of those characters all by herself. She did, however, bring them to life in ways that most performers, regardless of gender, would be either unwilling or unable to do. And even though Kerr once complained of her early "goody goody" roles, she surely knew what was going on inside those deceptively prim and proper women she played prior to From Here to Eternity. »

- Andre Soares

30 January 2012 3:22 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Parker Posey was all set to host last night's awards ceremony, but fell ill —  and so, as live-bloggers Eric Hynes and Claiborne Smith report, Sundance festival director John Cooper reluctantly took the helm, choking up a bit right at the top as he drove himself through a remembrance of Bingham Ray. Rebounding, he brought on director and actress Katie Aselton as co-host and it was on to the awards. You can actually watch all this here (select "2012 Sundance Film Festival"). An overview of what the critics are saying about the winners:

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. The House I Live In, "a lucid, long-view unpacking of the War on Drugs from Eugene Jarecki, who ably dissected the lead-up to the Iraq War in Why We Fight." The Boston Globe's Ty Burr: "The movie marshals a wide selection of talking heads, from Oklahoma prison guards and Reagan-era appointees to street dealers and Jarecki's own nanny, »

26 January 2012 10:12 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

For party animals, star gazers, hungry movie-acquisition teams, and Twitter fiends, diving in at the halfway mark of Sundance has definite drawbacks: The celebrity-circus caravan has left Park City, and that starting-gate itch, both for acquisitions types and critic types, to be first to weigh in on hot titles has been scratched. Fine with me! I arrived in Park City on Tuesday afternoon to already thinning crowds, and with pretty reliable input (not necessarily from Twitter fiends!) into hits, misses, and curiosities. The downside: I missed a sighting of Richard Gere. The upside: I missed a public harangue by Spike Lee. »

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

3 items from 2012