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Bridget Jones’s Diary: 25th Anniversary–Zellweger and Director Maguire Discuss the Casting Backlash

Bridget Jones, for all intents and purposes, was a normal girl who “looked like her lifestyle.”

Pick of the Week

Amores Perros: Iñárritu’s Bold Feature Debut at 25 (Restored and Rereleased)

Amores Perros played Cannes 25 years ago, but not in Competition. It was invited to Critics’ Week, where it won the Grand Prix.

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Obsession: Horror Movie Defies Expectations–Word-Of-Mouth

It is Spielberg’s top-grossing opening weekend domestically for original feature, as well as Amblin’s biggest original opening.

Reviews

Bridget Jones’s Diary: 25th Anniversary–Zellweger and Director Maguire Discuss the Casting Backlash

Bridget Jones, for all intents and purposes, was a normal girl who “looked like her lifestyle.”

Sirat: What You Need to Know about Laxe’s Masterpiece

Visceral, spiritual, metaphysical, sensorial and elemental, “Sirat” is thus far one of the best films of the decade.

Disclosure Day: Spielberg’s Sci-Fi Spectacle–Still Box Office Draw?

The question now is if audiences will turn up in droves for the original concept he conceived of before handing script duties off to Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp.

Camera d’Or Year 12 (1989): Hungarian Ildikó Enyedi’s Sci-Fi Dramedy, “My 20th Century”

Ildikó Enyedi wrote and directed My 20th Century, a Hungarian sci-fi dramedy, which won the Camera d’Or award at the 1989 Cannes Film Fest.