Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s tale about male friendship, aging, and alcoholism is by turns funny, sad, and ultimately cathartic.
Oscars
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The 7th Annual Lubies
Now entering their seventh year, The Lubies are CITY’s rambunctious Oscar alternative, bestowing the highly sought after Golden Everything Burrito upon the films, performances, and trends that made the biggest impression over this past year.
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92nd Academy Awards nominations
The Academy Awards nominations are out. Adam analyzes the nods: this year only narrowly escaped being another #OscarsSoWhite situation, and women filmmakers were entirely snubbed for the directorial award.
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The 5th Annual Lubies
Oscar night’s arrival this Sunday means that it’s finally time for everyone’s real favorite movie celebration: the annual Lubie Awards, CITY’s Oscar alternative highlighting some of the year’s best — but sadly overlooked — films and performances.
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The 2nd Annual “Lubies”
Forget the Oscars; City Film Critic Adam Lubitow weighs in on his favorite films and performances of 2014
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Film Preview: “2015 Oscar Nominated Shorts”
Continuing their annual tradition of the past 10 years, Shorts HD has partnered with Magnolia Pictures to bring each of the Oscar-nominated short films to theaters around the country. And once again, The Little Theatre is one of the select venues to screen the programs. It’s great that these films get to be seen by […]
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FILM: The 1st Annual “Lubies”
Years ago, my esteemed predecessor, Ms. Dayna Papaleo, founded her very own award ceremony to rival the Oscars, and to acknowledge the films and filmmakers she deemed worthy of honoring for their cinematic achievements over the previous year. These prestigious awards came to be known as “The Daynas.” Tragically, over the intervening years, Ms. Papaleo […]
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Film Review: 2014 Oscar-Nominated Shorts
One of the happiest developments in recent Academy Award history has been the decision to make available the entire slate of Oscar-nominated short films in an annual theatrical release, courtesy of Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures. Whereas previously these films would only have been available to the lucky few who managed to catch them on […]
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FILM: Cinema paradiso
It used to be that there was a sharp, clear-cut line dividing the popcorn-movie trifles of summer from the highbrow, cerebral films of the fall movie season. But over the past several years, it’s become virtually impossible to distinguish between the two. Sure, there are still plenty of brainy prestige pictures to be found at […]
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Maybe they’ll actually deserve that statue
Two great American public occasions annually illuminate the dark days and frozen nights of winter with the bright lights of hype and the torrential flow of gush. Though celebrating entirely different endeavors, both events mount elaborate ceremonies that, through assiduous cultivation of the media and enormous expenditure of money on publicity, command the attention of […]
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The Hollywood think is one glittery rut
Once again, to the delight of publicists, entertainment reporters, clothing designers, and the various people who really make movies — bankers, lawyers, agents, accountants, etc. — next Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents its annual awards ceremony, more familiarly known as Oscar night. The moment represents the film industry’s own depthless […]
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Rolling out the beige carpet
It went largely unnoticed by most media outlets, but the 1st Annual Daynas were held recently in my tiny apartment. It was a rather casual affair — no sequins or tuxes allowed, and the invitees and I dined on tuna sandwiches, nacho cheese Doritos, and Ovaltine (the chocolate malt kind). I didn’t have any swanky […]
