'Searching For Sugar Man' Director Has Died At 36
Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul has passed away at the age of 36. He won an Oscar in 2013 for Best Documentary.
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WGA Awards Go To 'Argo', 'Zero Dark Thirty'
In the last major pre-Oscars guild awards, the WGA followed the PGA, the DGA, and the SAG (not to mention the HFPA, the BAFTA, and most every other film-related acronym you can think of) in feting Argo, this time for the excellent adapted screenplay by Chris Terrio. Mark Boal's Zero Dark Thirty nabbed the original screenplay award,…
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'60 Minutes' Segment On Sundance Fave 'Searching For Sugar Man' Celebrates Talented Singer Rodriguez
One of the big hits of both Sundance and SXSW this year was the doc Searching For Sugar Man, about the singer Rodriguez, whose records bombed in the US in the '70s even as it became a major cultural force in South Africa. Sony Classics picked up the film after Sundance, but no trailer has been…
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'Searching For Sugar Man' - A Documentary That Feels Like A Musical 'Harry Potter' Story [Sundance 2012]
There are no magic tricks in Searching for Sugar Man. No one has a wand and the stakes are certainly not life or death. It just so happens that the fascinating real life story of Rodriguez, a rock singer from the early 1970s, shares some eerie parallels with everyone's favorite boy wizard, Harry Potter. Both…
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