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GODS AND MONSTERS: THE STUDIO SUITS LAID THREADBARE

Love ’em or hate ’em, studio executives are an unavoidable part of the Hollywood filmmaking process, so producers, writers and directors have to learn to deal with them. Some regard “the suits” as helpful partners in that process. Others grumble that these very same folks do nothing but stand in the way, impede creativity and close doors.

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AUTEUR-DE-FORCE: HOW TOM FORD AND WES ANDERSON GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS

An artistic achievement for its co-writer and director Wes Anderson, the Oscar-nominated film Fantastic Mr. Fox is visually stunning, heartfelt and clever as…well…a fox. It also has our vote for Best Animated Film. Here, Anderson gives us a bit of insight into the making of his stop-motion animation masterpiece.

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A DECADE OF OSCAR: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE INEXPLICABLE

Long derided in some quarters as being too conservative, Oscar voters have for much of the last century shown their taste to be more out of whack than a Mike Leigh retrospective at a Des Moines multiplex. But at the close of the first decade of the new century, strange things have begun to develop among its 6,000-plus voting members — things like hipness, youthful attitudes and progressive thinking.