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There's a moment in Jane Campion's "Bright Star" when seamstress Fanny Brawne sternly declares to John Keats and friends: "My stitching has more merits and admirers than all your scribblings put together.

The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's production of "The Nutcracker" takes place Dec 5 and 6 at the Aspen District Theatre.

If you enjoyed a documentary in a movie theater in the last year, odds are you won't be seeing it at the Oscars in March.

November 23, 2009 No statuette for Anna this year! The official list of Oscar nominations for documentaries was released late last week and the results have had some people wondering.

In 1961, an English high school girl falls under the spell of a mysterious man who seduces her and then her family and opens a world of wonders to her while placing her on some genuinely shaky ground.

However, hard-hitting eco-film The Cove and Agnes Varda's acclaimed The Beaches of Agnes are included in Academy's 15-strong longlist for best documentary Oscar On the longlist ... The Cove Michael Moore has touted it as his boldest, most ambitious movie to date.

Prominent documentaries including Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story," James Toback's "Tyson," Sacha Gervasi's "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" and R.J. Cutler's "The September Issue" failed to make the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 15-film shortlist for feature docs.

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A sterling year has wrapped with a raft of new trophies a ' the finest of the winners amply demonstrate what documentaries can do better than anything else The usual suspects? a Doc/Fest programmer Hussain Currimbhoy, The Blood of the Rose director Henry Singer, Adam Curtis, Sons of Cuba director Andrew Lang, Doc/Fest director Heather Croall, ...

The Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the premiere confabs for documentarians to meet, announce the 2009 Award winners: "Hosted by filmmakers Roger Graef OBE and AJ Schnack, six awards were presented: the Sheffield Green Award, the Wallflower Press Student Doc Award, the Sheffield Innovation Award, the Sheffield Youth Jury Award, the new Special Jury ...

In other Project Runway celebrity news, Christian Siriano dished to New York Magazine while dressed in a fantastically fabulous Ariel costume from Disney's The Little Mermaid .

Meryl Streep's dragon-lady fashion-mag editor in "The Devil Wears Prada" was widely assumed to be based on real-life Vogue editor in chief, Anna Wintour.

In the first of his diaries from the Sheffield DocFest, David Cox on how the opening night film - set in the city itself - shows the perils of sidestepping the genre's two big challenges: campaigning and cinema Children from the Karen community residing in Sheffield sing at the World Premiere of Mat Whitecross's Moving to Mars: A Million Miles from ...

It's hard to imagine Christian Siriano 's dark side on a normal day, and especially so when he's dressed as Ariel from The Little Mermaid on Halloween.

DOHA: The Tribeca Film Festival is not just about movie fans going there to personally watch celebrities walking down the aisle on the red carpet because it offers films that are unique and make sense.

The craft is impeccable, the comedy is painfully droll, and the immortal question at the heart -- why does God do/allow the things he does -- is left unanswered.

'The September Issue': Wintour of our Di... R.J. Cutler's documentary examines the assemblage of Vogue 's September 2007 publication, which became the single largest issue printed of any monthly magazine.

For fashionphiles, the famine has officially begun. Those who have lately subsisted on a steady diet of runway shows will definitely feel the pain of withdrawal.

Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons.

Film review: The September Issue "Something about fashion makes people nervous," muses Anna Wintour at the beginning of The September Issue.