Chris Willman
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TheWrap Screening Series: Indian Drama ‘Liar’s Dice’ Breaks Bollywood Mold and Becomes Oscar Contender
Director Geetu Mohandas reveals her struggles to sell a non-musical film about “a woman, a kid, and a lamb on a mountain”
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TheWrap Screening Series: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Unlikely Muse Behind ‘The Dead Lands’
He’s a surprising influence in New Zealand foreign-language hopeful directed by Toa Fraser
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Reese Witherspoon’s Odd F-Bombs, Michael Keaton Mania, ‘Weird Tales’ Show-Stealing: 7 Telluride Takeaways
An Argentine comedy trumps “Birdman” and “The Imitation Game” while the confab says it could care less about Best Picture candidates
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‘Birdman’ and ‘Foxcatcher’ Leave Telluride Audiences Blissed Out and Bowled Over
New Michael Keaton and Steve Carell movies make their U.S. debuts, kicking off what might be an awards-season battle
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Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Imitation Game’ Steals the Show From Reese Witherspoon and Jon Stewart in Telluride
The British actor didn’t make it to Colorado, but his film “The Imitation Game” is the hit of the festival’s opening day
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Grammys Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Should Win
TheWrap analyzes the key Grammy matchups before music’s big show
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TheWrap Screening Series: Georgian Oscar Hopeful ‘In Bloom’ Mixes Pubescence With Post-Soviet Politics
The co-directors of Georgia’s Oscar entry talked about rebounding fortunes for both young women and their post-Soviet film industry
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TheWrap Screening Series: Felicity Jones on Why She Gave Ralph Fiennes the Dickens Over ‘Invisible Woman’ (Video)
The star of drama talks about how she fought to keep portrayal of novelist real — and dodges ‘Spider-Man 2’ questions
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TheWrap Screening Series: How India’s Oscar Contender Rejected Bollywood on the Way to Hollywood
The director of “The Good Road” discussed the hardships of making non-Bollywood dramas — and the surprise of beating front-runners for India’s Oscars slot
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TheWrap Screening Series: How Belgium Produced the Century’s Second Great Bluegrass Movie (Video)
The principals behind “The Broken Circle Breakdown” explained how their tearjerking drama generated an “O Brother”-style musical phenomenon
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Great Beauty’ Director on Pros and Cons of Being Called the New Fellini
At TheWrap’s foreign-film awards-series screening — as everywhere — Italy’s foreign-film Oscar entry provoked inevitable comparisons to “La Dolce Vita”
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Neighboring Sounds’ Director Borrowed Polanski’s Style for Brazilian Social Realism
At TheWrap’s foreign-film series screening, Brazil’s most acclaimed young director explained how mundanity and cinematic tension go hand-in-hand
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Wrap Screening Series: ‘Gabrielle’ Filmmakers on Ups and Downs of Mentally Challenged Actors
Team ‘Gabrielle’ is also challenged with upholding the new tradition of Canadian films at the Oscars
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘More Than Honey’ Has the Sweet Buzz of Activism
Director Markus Imhoof on getting stung, affecting political change and shooting those midair sex scenes
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‘Terms and Conditions’ Director Rails Against Oversharing, Oversurveillance
Cullen Hoback expresses a little hope about rolling back the Patriot Act — if not Facebook’s increasingly lax privacy standards — at TheWrap’s Awards Screening series