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Film Society of Lincoln Center Co-Founder Martin E. Segal Dead at 96

Film Society of Lincoln Center Co-Founder Martin E. Segal Dead at 96

The Russian-born American businessman and cultural philanthropist Martin E. Segal died Sunday just under two months before the 50th anniversary of the New York Film Festival, the premiere Manhattan film event hosted annually by the venerable organization he founded, the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He was 96.
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Michael Moore Reveals George Clooney's Unlikely Date Movie: Roger & Me

Michael Moore Reveals George Clooney's Unlikely Date Movie: Roger & Me

Actor George Clooney once confessed to Oscar-winner Michael Moore that he used the filmmaker's debut Roger & Me as a dating litmus test. Or so Moore told an audience at the Walter Reade Theater in New York, where the hit 1989 documentary had a special screening Tuesday night.
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'The Man Was a Giant': NYC Film Guru Amos Vogel Dead at 91

'The Man Was a Giant': NYC Film Guru Amos Vogel Dead at 91

Sad news out of Manhattan: Amos Vogel, whose championing of foreign and independent film changed the direction of modern cinema over the last half-century, has passed away. He was 91. Vogel's Cinema 16 events, introduced in 1947, battled censors and opened viewers' eyes to the likes of Roman Polanski, Yasujirō Ozu, Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes and scores of other auteurs — in some cases before the word "auteur" meant anything. He also co-founded the New York Film Festival, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary as the city's leading light of movie culture.
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Oscar-Chasing The Artist Starts Strong In NYFF, Hamptons Festival Tour

The Artist, the silent film that has emerged since Cannes as one of the year's presumptive Oscar front-runners, finally makes landfall in the States this weekend: Following tonight's East Coast premiere at the New York Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius's tribute to old Hollywood rolls out for audiences at the Hamptons Film Festival. And if today's early reactions at the NYFF press screening were any indication, all signs point to success.

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'Beyond Thrilled': My Week With Marilyn Director Simon Curtis On His Auspicious NYFF Debut

'Beyond Thrilled': My Week With Marilyn Director Simon Curtis On His Auspicious NYFF Debut

The world premiere of your first feature film -- in the hypercritical climes of the New York Film Festival, no less -- would be nerve-wracking for any director. But Simon Curtis isn't any director. He's a BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated television and stage veteran who's worked with a who's who of British acting royalty, a noteworthy group of whom appear in Curtis's feature debut My Week With Marilyn.

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