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Masters of Sex Season 2, Episode 10: “Below the Belt”

Written by Bathsheba Doran and Eileen Myers

Directed by Adam Arkin

Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on Showtime

“Everyone has their own version of everything that’s ever happened.” There’s more weight and truth to these words Ann Dowd speaks than in any of the many speeches she got to deliver in The Leftovers. It’s an easy sentence to seize upon as a master key to interpreting the ideas in “Below the Belt,” but “easy” doesn’t mean “unintelligent.” It’s there from the opening scene, in which Gini confesses to her psychiatrist that she’s set all their sessions up as a charade to try to help Barb. It’s in the fundamental misunderstanding between Langham and Flo about the nature of their new sexual relationship. And of course, it’s at the heart of the episode’s biggest conflict,...

David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" danced atop the 17th Annual Satellite Awards winning Best Picture, Editing, Director, Actor (Bradley Cooper), and Actress (Jennifer Lawrence). In the supporting acting categories, Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress award for "Les Miserables," while Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for playing the big bad in "Skyfall."

Winners were announced Sunday, Dec. 16, at the InterContinental Hotel at Century City in Los Angeles.

Here's the complete winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards (for a complete list of Awards Season winners/nominees, click here):

Motion Picture

Argo .

*** Silver Linings Playbook

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Les MISÉRABLES

Skyfall

Moonrise Kingdom

The Sessions

Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone

Life Of Pi

Zero Dark Thirty

Director

*** David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook

Ben Affleck -- Argo

Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films

Ben Lewin -- The Sessions

Steven Spielberg --...

As we inch closer to the holidays and the end of 2012, we're going to start seeing a lot of these video mash-ups that look back at the year that was. Up first is our friend Sleepy Skunk, creator of our Best Horror Movie Quotes of All Time supercut, with his 2012 Movie Trailer Mash-up. Watch it below; full list of movies featured here. What we dig about this mash-up is how there's a method to Sleepy Skunk's madness. He separated the piece into three parts, explained in the description below.  Prima Parte - The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project that became infamous for symbolizing the shattered dreams of many and was subject to a great documentary this year. By the late 1960s, it had gone from a promise of a better future for...

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As we inch closer to the holidays and the end of 2012, we're going to start seeing a lot of these video mashups that look back at the year that was. Up first is our friend Sleepy Skunk, creator of our Best Horror Movie Quotes of All Time supercut, with his 2012 Movie Trailer Mashup. Watch it below; full list of movies featured here. What we dig about this mashup is how there's a method to Sleepy Skunk's madness. He separated the piece into three parts, explained in the description below.  Prima Parte - The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project that became infamous for symbolizing the shattered dreams of many and was subject to a great documentary this year. By the late 1960's, it had gone from a promise of a better future for...

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We are closing in on the end of 2012, everyone is putting together their Top 10 lists, and editing together their end of the year retrospective video mashups! The first 2012 video mashup that I've seen so far comes to us from Louis Plamondon. He broke the video down into three parts, and here's an explanation of what they represent...

Prima Parte - The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project that became infamous for symbolizing the shattered dreams of many and was subject to a great documentary this year. By the late 1960's, it had gone from a promise of a better future for thousands of families to a place of desolation, poverty and crime. Not unlike the fate of its inhabitants, many characters in this year's motion pictures have had to endure a vision of the future that demanded their hopes to make room for despair. From the...

The International Press Academy has announced the nominees of the 17th Annual Satellite Awards. "Les Miserables" led the pack with 10 nominations including Best Picture.

Winners will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 16 at the InterContinental at Century City in Los Angeles.

17th Annual Satellite Awards Nominees:

Motion Picture

Argo .

Silver Linings Playbook

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Les MISÉRABLES

Skyfall

Moonrise Kingdom

The Sessions

Lincoln Dreamworks/Touchstone

Life Of Pi

Zero Dark Thirty

Director

David O. Russell -- Silver Linings Playbook

Ben Affleck -- Argo

Kim Ki-duk -- Pieta Drafthouse Films

Ben Lewin -- The Sessions

Steven Spielberg -- Lincoln

Kathryn Bigelow -- Zero Dark Thirty

Actress in a Motion Picture Name

Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook

Emilie Dequenne Our Children

Keira Knightley Anna Karenina

Emmanuelle Riva Amour

Laura Birn Purge

Laura Linney Hyde Park On Hudson

Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty

Actor in a Motion Picture

John Hawkes The Sessions...

It's getting towards the end of 2012, and if all goes well, the world will still be here in 2013. But the end of another year means it's time for the traditional retrospectives of the year in film. Today we have our first video looking back at all of the films from this year with The 2012 Movie Trailer Mash-Up. It's not quite as eloquent as some of the edits we've seen in the past (and will likely see in the near future), but there's some great moments here and it's always fun to see movies like The Dark Knight Rises thrown together with Silver Linings Playbook. There's animated movies, documentaries, blockbusters, indies and everything. Here's The 2012 Movie Trailer Mash-Up sent to use straight from SleepySkunk: And here's a breakdown of the inspiration that went into each segment: Prima Parte - The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project that...

While pickings have been slim lately, there are several interesting things to check out over the long Memorial Day weekend.

How about a dark comedy about a pedophile and his kidnapped sex slave and a documentary about a legendary housing project?

Read more on Your Netflix Instant Weekend: Michael (2011), The Pruitt-igoe Myth, and more...

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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2012

Price: DVD $27.95

Studio: First Run Features

...and the neighborhood comes tumbling down in The Pruitt–Igoe Myth.

The 2011 documentary film The Pruitt–Igoe Myth examines the facts and fiction surrounding the well-known urban housing project built in St. Louis, Missouri in the mid-1950s.

When it was first conceived, Pruitt-Igoe was considered to be a housing marvel. Built in 1956, it was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, “the poor man’s penthouse.” As the years passed, the complex became internationally infamous for its problems, which included widespread crime, segregation and poverty. Two decades after it was constructed, Pruitt-Igoe ended in rubble – its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called “the death of modernism.” The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth its failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture,...

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, slated to open in mid-December, will be the first major feature to be screened at 48 frames per second. Both Mike Bracken (Movies.com) and Carolyn Giardina (Hollywood Reporter) wonder just how many theaters will be able to handle the High Frame Rate Jackson and James Cameron have been promoting.

In other news. Senses of Cinema is back online with a new look.

Books. Ada Calhoun finds that Frank Langella's new memoir, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them, "paints Hollywood and Broadway as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by famous people in far-flung locations. He ambles into history and falls into notable beds like some kind of sexy Forrest Gump or beefcake Zelig."

Reviewing Claude Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for the New Republic,...

"There's a broodingly meditative tone to Chad Freidrichs's Pruitt-Igoe Myth, a film whose deceptively simple, by-the-books documentary template serves dual purposes," begins Ernest Hardy in the Voice. "Freidrichs's main goal, which is fully realized, is the painstaking illustration of how racism, classism, and government serving the interests of big business all shaped the now-myth-like horrors of St Louis's notorious Pruitt-Igoe housing project. The massive complex, which at one time housed roughly 12,000 people in 33 buildings, was launched with much fanfare in the mid 1950s and touted as a solution to the city's many crime-ridden slums. It was demolished with even more fanfare in 1972 after being allowed to slide from a state-of-the-art planned community to a hellhole of violence and despair."

"Blisteringly high-res interviews with the now-grown children of Pruitt-Igoe, as well as urban planning students who studied the complexes firsthand, offer testimonial evidence to the germs of neighborhood pride that...

First Run Features announced today its acquisition of the award-winning documentary The Pruitt-igoe Myth from filmmaker Chad Freidrichs. First Run is planning a March 2012 theatrical launch with VOD, home video and television to follow. The deal was negotiated by Film Sales Company head Andrew Herwitz and First Run’s Marc Mauceri.

The Pruitt-igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.

It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, “the poor man’s penthouse.” Two decades later, it ended in rubble – its razing an iconic event that the architectual theorist Charles Jenks famously called the death of modernism. The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth of failure,...

Patricio Guzmán's "Nostalgia for the Light" was the big winner at the 2011 International Documentary Association (Ida) Awards receiving the Best Feature trophy. Here's the full list of winners:

Career Achievement Award

Les Blank

Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award

Danfung Dennis

Best Feature Award

"Nostalgia For The Light"

Director/Writer: Patricio Guzmán

Producer: Renate Sachse

Atacama Productions (France), Blinker Filmproduction GmbH and Wdr (Germany), and Cronomedia Ltda. (Chile), Icarus Films

Best Short Award

"Poster Girl"

Director/Producer: Sara Nesson

Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)

Producer: Mitchell Block

Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein (HBO)

Consulting Producer: Ross Kauffman

Portrayal Films, Inc. in association with HBO Documentary Films

Best Limited Series Award

"Boomtown"

Executive Producer/Director: Rachel Libert

Executive Producers: Josh Braun, Ken Druckerman, Susannah Ludwig, Banks Tarver

Co-Executive Producer: Matthew Galkin

Producer: Kevin Vargas

Left/Right Inc., Discovery Channel- Planet Green

Best Continuing Series Award

"Pov"

Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry

Co-Executive...

The Cinema Eye Honors revealed the nominees for the 5th Annual Awards honoring Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Winners will be announced on January 11. Here's the list of the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors:

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:

"The Arbor," Directed by Clio Barnard, Produced by Tracy O.Riordan

"Senna," Directed by Asif Kapadia; Produced by James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner

"Project Nim," Directed by James Marsh, Produced by Simon Chinn

"Position Among the Stars," Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich, Produced by Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich

"Nostalgia for the Light," Directed by Patricio Guzmán, Produced by Renate Sachse

"The Interrupters," Directed by Steve James, Produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James

Outstanding Achievement in Direction:

Clio Barnard for "The Arbor"

Leonard Retel Helmrich for "Position Among the Stars"

Patricio Guzmán for "Nostalgia for the Light"

Steve James for "The Interrupters"

Danfung Dennis for "Hell and Back Again"

Outstanding Achievement in Production:

Erik Nelson...

Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light won Best Feature at the International Documentary Association's Awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night. The La Times' Susan King: "Set in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, the documentary juxtaposes scenes of astronomers in observatories scanning the galaxies, while nearby, archaeologists and elderly women dig through the sand searching for the human remains of pre-Columbian mummies, 19th century miners who labored in slave conditions and the bodies of victims of Gen Augusto Pinochet's regime who were taken to the Atacama as political prisoners and dumped there." Michael Guillén interviewed Guzmán in October 2010.

TheWrap's Steve Pond notes that neither Nostalgia nor any of the other docs nominated for the Ida's top award — Better This World, How to Die in Oregon, The Redemption of General Butt Naked and The Tiniest Place — have made the Academy's shortlist of 15 films left in the race for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar.

Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan in Eugene Jarecki's Reagan Euthanasia, Political Repression, Liberian Warlord: International Documentary Association Nominations David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award This award recognizes exceptional achievement in non-fiction film and video production at the university level and brings greater public and industry awareness to the work of students in the documentary field. GUAÑAPE Sur Director/Executive Producer/Writer: János Richter Executive Producers: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella Producer: Georg Zeller ZeLIG- School for Documentary, Andanafilms, Icarus Films Heart-quake Director/Writer: Mark Olexa Executive Producers: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella Producers: Georg Zeller, Nadia Caruso ZeLIG – School for Documentary River Of Victory Director/Producer: Trevor Wright Executive Director: Jack Emery Producers: A. Todd Smith, Jordan Augustine Full Mountain Pictures, Brigham Young University Smoke Songs Director/Producer/Writer: Briar March Executive Producers: Jan Krawitz, Jamie Meltzer, Kris Samuelson On the Level Production Transit Director/Writer: Regina Tan Producers: Haley Quartarone, Juvia Chua,...

Updated through 6/27.

This year's Los Angeles Film Festival, running through June 26, opens tonight with the latest from Richard Linklater, and Steven Zeitchik talks with him for the Los Angeles Times: "'It was my most difficult one to get made,' he said flatly. 'It took 12 years to happen, and even then it was tough. People can say shooting in 22 days makes a movie better. It doesn't.' … Bernie is a shaggy, idiosyncratic work, possibly the strangest yet in a career full of strangeness. Set in the small town of Carthage, Texas, it tells of an effeminate, musical-loving mortician named Bernie Tiede [Jack Black] who befriends and then commits a horrible crime against a repressed wealthy matriarch [Shirley MacLaine], leaving him to face the wrath of a local prosecutor [Matthew McConaughey]. The movie is a dramatization of an actual case — the script was based on a 1998 Texas Monthly article about Tiede, and Linklater, who attended Tiede's trial,...

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Directed by Chad Freidrichs

2011, USA

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is an interesting and sometimes informative documentary that is good but not great. It tells the story of the Pruitt-Igoe projects in St. Louis and how they went from a promising housing utopia to a desolate and crime-ridden housing project. This is a very interesting topic and one that is ripe for a documentary, but director Chad Freidrichs, a local Columbia filmmaker, gets in his own way here through some key decisions.

The film is mostly comprised of archival footage and talking head interviews with residents of Pruitt-Igoe and historians of the period. Freidrichs gets some incredible archival footage like an interview with an African American man who can’t find a job despite looking everywhere. The man has a family and is facing institutional racism of the 1960s. That scene is truly heartbreaking to watch and yet Freidrichs...