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  'Persepolis' Directors Charm Once Again With Whimsical, Wonderful 'Chicken With Plums' [Tribeca Review]

  By Angie Han April 24th, 2012

  In 2007, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi made a splash with their acclaimed feature debut Persepolis, an adaptation of Satrapi's autobiographical comic. For their new follow-up Chicken With Plums, the pair have drawn upon another of Satrapi's tomes, this one the true-ish tale of Satrapi's renowned musician uncle. Superficially, the two projects seem like opposites. Where Persepolis was animated in…

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  2011 Venice Film Festival Lineup Includes 'Carnage,' 'A Dangerous Method,' And 'Dogtooth' Director's Latest

  By Russ Fischer July 28th, 2011

  Hot on the heels of the release of a massive batch of films that will appear in the Toronto Film Festival, we've got the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. We knew that George Clooney's The Ides of March would open the fest (the trailer…

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  First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola

  By Russ Fischer July 27th, 2011

  If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…

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