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...for the best director Oscar this year, there will be at least one woman director on stage at the 83rd Academy Awards. Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman to win the best director Oscar last year when she was recognized for The Hurt Locker, has joined...
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...pairings of writers with actors and directors who’ve collaborated with them. Among the duos: writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow (left), who made "The Hurt Locker" together; actor Hank Azaria with writer Mitch Albom ("Tuesdays with Morrie"); actress...
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...The Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has angered the Argentine and Paraguayan governments who claim her next film Triple Frontier could destroy their tourism industries. Bigelow hopes to make her film in the border region between Argentina, Brazil...
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...Bigelow is putting that Oscar to use! According to a tweet from Production Weekly, Bigelow will follow up her award-winning The Hurt Locker with a Revlon ad starring none other than Jessica Biel. (Don't miss her in one of this summer's identical-seeming mercenary...
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...Directors Guild of America award, presented by last year's winner Danny Boyle. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Kathryn Bigelow took a major step towards this year's best director Oscar when she scooped the top prize at the Directors Guild of America...
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Guardian Unlimited
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...Bigelow on the set of "The Hurt Locker." Kathryn Bigelow was awarded the Directors Guild of Americaâs top honor tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles for her work on âThe Hurt Locker.â The award had been seen as a closely rivalled battle...
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Indie Wire
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...are some facts: Fact #2 -- Kathryn Bigelow doesn't get nearly enough credit. Fact #3 -- The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is also awesome. It will almost certainly be nominated for a slew of Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director....
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After Kathryn Bigelow (hopefully) becomes the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director this year, she could easily choose any project to do as a follow-up to her very, very, very acclaimed Iraq War film "The Hurt Locker." According to
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MTV.com
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Four of these Oscar pundits -- Brad Brevet (Rope of Silicon), Erik Davis (Cinematical), Sasha Stone (Awards Daily) and Jeff Wells (Hollywood Elsewhere) -- predict Kathryn Bigelow will become the first female director to take home an Oscar for her
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Los Angeles Times
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If you like a good battle, rent "The Hurt Locker." Not for the war footage, which is time-bomb tense instead of graphically violent, but for insight into some off-screen skirmishes. Last week, Kathryn Bigelow's low-budget Iraq war
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Miami Herald
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James Cameron faces an uphill fight in trying to wrest a Golden Globe from his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, as both were nominated for best director for this year’s Golden Globe Awards, handed out Jan.
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Monday was a very good day for director Kathryn Bigelow and her movie The Hurt Locker.
The Iraq war drama, starring Jeremy Renner as an explosives expert who loves his job too much for anyone's comfort, was named 2009's best movie by the New York Film
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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...for an Oscar first? Here’s one: Kathryn Bigelow, director of the much-praised and serious “The Hurt Locker,” could be in the running for best director against her ex-husband. Bigelow was married from 1989-91 to “Avatar” director James Cameron. Their movies...
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Looking for an Oscar first? Here’s one: Kathryn Bigelow, director of the much-praised and serious “The Hurt Locker,” could be in the running for best director against her ex-husband.
Bigelow was married from 1989-91 to “Avatar” director James
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Chemistry was the key in concocting director Kathryn Bigelow's
explosive thriller "The Hurt Locker," says casting director Mark
Bennett. Mark Boal's story, built out of his experiences as an
embedded journalist in Iraq, focuses on the last weeks of
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Backstage
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If there were any questions about her gift for marrying art to commerce, Kathryn Bigelow exploded them once and for all this year with "The Hurt Locker," her nerve-racking drama about bravery, fraternity and bomb defusing in Iraq. Having set
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Variety
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Dir. Kathryn Bigelow (2002). Kathryn Bigelow's fiercely wrought time-twister is a literary mystery that weaves an ambiguous marital thriller with a more compelling Nordic tale of incest, jealousy, and murder-spinning ever more quickly between the
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Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-12-01/voice-choices/the-weight-of-water
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Contemporary American variations on the myth are represented by John Carpenter's Vampires (Oct.15), which depicts a group of macho, modern-day Van Helsings in a storyline not unlike a classic Western; Neil Jordan's big-screen version of Anne
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The Batavia Daily News
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Sooner or later, every director gets round to a film which is a love letter to
cinema itself.
For Pedro Almodovar that film is Broken Embraces, a complex mystery drama that
sees magic and romance in every aspect of movie-making, from dubbing
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The Independent
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How would you go about programming a weeklong retrospective of Kathryn Bigelow double features? We could put the vampire movie with the futuristic sci-fi movie, and then maybe the skydiving/bankrobber movie with the biker movie. Let's see... then we
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Jason Solomons talks to Xiaolu Guo, whose London-set She, A Chinese won the Locarno film festival last week, and to The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow. Xan Brooks joins Jason to review Funny People, Broken Embraces and Mesrine, and to preview The
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Guardian Unlimited
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Kathryn Bigelow called upon the knowledge and experience of Iraq reporter Mark Boal to create authenticity in her new movie The Hurt Locker.
The movie is set during the conflict in the Middle East and follows a bomb disposal unit and has already been
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Female First
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Point Break director Kathryn Bigelow is back with a bang with The Hurt Locker, a nerve-shredding, documentary-style thriller about bomb disposal experts in Iraq. Scripted by Mark Boal - who also penned In The Valley Of Elah, AKA The Other Good Iraq War
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"I loved making this movie. I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not. If we'd financed this under more conventional methods, I can't imagine a studio would have allowed us that freedom. But it's a movie about the Middle East and,
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New York Magazine
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You wouldn’t be alone in being surprised by The Hurt Locker, a powerful and
critically acclaimed American film set in the Iraq war. Surprised that it’s
the work of a director whose most successful film, until now, has been a
high-octane surfing
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Times Online
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Could The Hurt Locker be Kathryn Bigelow's big break into the upper echelon of desired action directors? In his review from TIFF last year, James Rocchi said: "Bigelow's a terrific action director, but the industry doesn't offer her the chance to
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Cinematical
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Kathryn Bigelow went six years between her last feature directorial effort (K19: The Widowmaker) and this year’s incredible effort The Hurt Locker. But the wait won’t be nearly as long for her next film. According to Variety, Bigelow and her Hurt
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If you haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet, then I suggest you make it your mission to see it before the summer is over, it's that good. My hopes are that Triple Frontier is a lot like that, with very intense scenes and an incredibly realistic feel, but
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Jeremy Renner in a particularly tense moment from the gripping 'The Hurt Locker,' directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a script by Mark Boal
Great news to start the week, eh?
Hopefully you've had a chance to see "The Hurt Locker" by now. It's a great film,
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By David Mermelstein Beverly Hills, Calif. S itting in the Beverly Hills Hotel?s swank Polo Lounge last month , the filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow looked as though she?d stepped straight from an Ivory Snow ad. Wearing a simple white blouse and tight jeans,
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Wall Street Journal
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It's a surprisingly slow day for news, so I thought I'd feature this interview from a recent episode of The Colbert Report. Colbert talks with director Kathryn Bigelow about her movie The Hurt Locker, which is currently in theaters now. As anyone,
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“When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle.”
– Captain Benjamin L. Willard from Apocalypse Now
“Death is the best kick of all. That’s why they save it for last.”
– Eugene Hunt from
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Like every war before it, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has generated its share of movies. But "The Hurt Locker" is the first of them that can properly be called a masterpiece.
Working from a screenplay by Mark Boal (who based the movie on his experiences
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Fresno Bee
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Jeremy Renner has several close encounters of the dying kind as a U.S. Army bomb disposal expert in Iraq in The Hurt Locker. Exactly why his character is willing to risk all is never clearly stated in director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film.
While many
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Miami Herald
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There are no female characters in the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker -- practically no women in the movie at all, aside from the occasional Baghdad wife or mother caught by the camera in one of the film's vistas of the bustling, dangerous city.
The
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Miami Herald
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The Hurt Locker
opens with an onscreen quote from journalist Chris Hedges declaring war to be a
"drug." If so, then Kathryn Bigelow’s film is itself a drug delivery device, a
harrowing, exhilarating exercise in tension and release. Ever since the
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The New Republic
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/07/24/the-mini-review-the-hurt-locker.aspx
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Don’t call it acting.“There was no acting in this movie,” Jeremy Renner said of his head-turning performance as an Army bomb disposal specialist in “The Hurt Locker.”“More like reacting.”
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KansasCity.com
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War is hell. That's why war movies are supposed to be loud and chaotic. From the bombed-out trenches of Paths of Glory to the machine-gun-strafed beaches of Saving Private Ryan, from the helicopter whirs and loudspeaker traffic of MASH to the napalm
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Baltimore City Paper
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It’s been nearly two months since indieWIRE checked in with the awards race in our post-Cannes search for clues. Usually, the period that follows Cannes is an awards-related dead zone. As Hollywood rolls out summer fare, awards prognosticators await
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Duncan Jones has revealed he paid tribute to the great science fiction directors in his film Moon - by naming the plants after them.
The director, whose debut feature film Moon stars Sam Rockwell as a lonely astronaut, said he wanted to acknowledge
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Director Kathryn Bigelow attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the late '60s and like a lot of her young colleagues had plans to become an avant-garde painter. Students in the halls and bars talked a lot about political and conceptual art at the
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Houston Chronicle
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Employing a level of tension that a horror director would covet, Kathryn Bigelow has crafted a master action film with The Hurt Locker. The Point Break filmmaker has directed a piece of work that should appeal to both action movie hounds with its
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Cinema Spy
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Director Nia Vardalos' new film I Hate Valentine's Day was made on a tiny budget — so tiny, Vardalos jokes, that "we couldn't afford a real director." IFC Films
Kathryn Bigelow on the set of The Hurt
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But viewers who happen to see both films will no doubt feel and think radically different things upon leaving the theater. In the case of "Transformers," directed by Michael Bay, they're likely to feel pummeled and punched by the movie's loud,
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902567.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/movies
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‘Hurt Locker’ benefits from solid screenplay, authenticity in filming
When Kathryn Bigelow read the script for The Hurt Locker, she was
riveted by the authenticity, the attention to detail and, perhaps
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Denton Record Chronicle
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I worried I was going to miss the thing entirely—"the thing" being a round-table interview with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the director and screenwriter of the film The Hurt Locker. I'd left early, I'd taken the precautionary cab so as not to be
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When casting the three lead soldiers for her action-filled war drama "The Hurt Locker," director Kathryn Bigelow avoided big name talent so audiences wouldn't know who was going to live or die judging solely by Hollywood star
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