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Eight offensive quotes on the Polanski situation.

By Vadim Rizov on 09/30/2009

Filed under: Controversy

In a case as tangled with moral, legal and straight-up emotional arguments as the ongoing Roman Polanski one, there's plenty of room for reasonable people to disagree. But wherever you stand, you'd hope at least people would avoid making the debate needlessly glib. And you'd be wrong. Here are eight of my favorite stupid statements made, in the interest of being fair and balanced, by both the media's prosecution and defense of Polanski: Prosecution 1. "He raped her in a lot of different ways. We're talking sodomy and... other styles of rape." --Wendy Murphy on MSNBC's "Hardball". Without being too... MORE »

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Selections from David Fincher.

By Alison Willmore on 01/06/2009

Filed under: In quotes

A few highlights from "Behind Button: A Conversation with David Fincher," hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Kent Jones to close out their Fincher retrospective pairing the director's work with films he likes, a set-up that yielded the whiplash double feature of "Se7en" and "Mary Poppins." He was drawn to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" because it seemed to offer "a more complete telling of a love story... because it involved one being there to help the other pass on," and found that "there were a lot of moments in the script that were semi-clichés" that he... MORE »

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Odds: Von Trier's "Antichrist," the Coens' collaborator.

By Alison Willmore on 07/29/2008

Filed under: Odds

Lars von Trier's English-language horror flick "Antichrist" is a go, reports Variety -- funding's in place and casting will be announced soon. The film's apparently "about a couple who move to an isolated cabin after the death of their son, only to find sinister forces at play." Those cabins, always trouble. Von Trier claimed depression was preventing him from working on new projects last year, but has, one would guess, since bounced back to his usual ebullient self. Stu VanAirsdale at the Village Voice writes on the occasion of MoMA's "Collaborations in the Collection": Barry Sonnenfeld is known to tell... MORE »