Laura Blum

Laura Blum

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Laura is a festival correspondent covering films and the festival circuit for filmfestivals.com. She also publishes on Thalo

 

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Styling Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive"

For Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch tapped production designer Marco Bittner Rosser. Here's what Bittner Rosser had to say about bringing to life this tale of the...


14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival

Holi may be the official Hindi festival of colors, but for New York fans of South Asian and Indian-American arthouse cinema, a spring celebration that brings even more brightness is the New York...


Director Hany Abu-Assad Talks "Omar"

Hany Abu-Assad doubts love means never having to say you're sorry. His Oscar-nominated film Omar makes his case. While still in L.A. after the Academy Awards, the Palestinian director shed light on...


"Finding Vivian Maier": A Detective Movie

With all due respect to Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the distinction of true detective must go to history sleuth John Maloof, whose documentary Finding Vivian Maier smokes out one of the...


Bertrand Tavernier Gets in the Loop with "The French Minister"

France's ruling elite has staged its share of psychodrama, but leave it to Bertrand Tavernier‘s new film The French Minister to replay it as farce. Adapted from the bestselling graphic novel Quai...


Tour "The Grand Budapest Hotel" with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen

With each new Wes Anderson film, audiences get not only a highly stylized world, but also a chance to wonder how he concocted it. Now The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is playing in New York and Los...


Bob Shaw's Lairs for "The Wolf of Wall Street"

The history of money is strewn with hoaxes and the anti-heroes who rise and fall by them. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street sends up an especially bracing example based on the bestselling...


Patricia Norris Bares Her Costume Design for "12 Years a Slave"

Patricia Norris knows a thing or two about costume design. A half a century in the business will do that. And now the 82 year old is poised to learn something else: whether she'll finally take home...


Director Haim Tabakman Examines "Eyes Wide Open"

The tent protests that swept Israel during summer 2011 momentarily made unlikely bedfellows out of secular and ultra-religious activists confronting similar social issues. Gay rights were no such...


Matthew McConaughey Fleshes Out "Dallas Buyers Club"

If you saw Matthew McConaughey claim Best Actor honors at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards, you know the story behind his latest movie Dallas Buyers Club. "For 20 years it was an underdog, turned down 86...