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Sorting Through Statuettes: A Skeptic's Guide To Surviving Awards Season

Brad Pitt won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his work in Moneyball and in Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life, in which he plays an authoritarian father. Merie Wallace/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation hide caption

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Sorting Through Statuettes: A Skeptic's Guide To Surviving Awards Season

It's awards season again, and it's about the time people start being driven nuts by the awards culture that will be with us for the next three months. If you want to get out of it alive — and maybe even better off — we've got some advice.

Praise Puts 'Tyrannosaur' Filmmaker In The Spotlight

Writer-director Paddy Considine's debut film, Tyrannosaur, is a favorite of critics this year. It's generating Oscar buzz and has earned Sundance Festival awards for Considine's directing and the film's lead actors. the film tackles dark themes like death and spousal abuse, but a message of hope manages to shine through. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin talks to Paddy Considine about writing and directing the film, which is in theaters now.

'House Of Pleasures': A Lush Portrait Of A Bordello

Bonello's film portrays life in a Paris brothel, defined by the distress and hopelessness of the women who work there. IFC Films hide caption

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'House Of Pleasures': A Lush Portrait Of A Bordello

It isn't what you might think; the sensual pleasures in this far-from-erotic film have to do with the opulence of costume and upholstery, and the intoxications of opium and champagne. Bertrand Bonello's drama is a decadent portrait of the end of an era — and of its most beautiful victims.

Nightmares On The Set: 'Prince and The Show Girl'

In 1956, two icons — Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier — got together in London to make a movie, The Prince and the Showgirl. It was a comedy about the lonely Prince Regent of Carpathia, who meets a flirty American showgirl. The film was a royal flop. Now a film, My Week With Marilyn, recounts the miserable time had by all on the set. It's the story of one week during the film shoot, with behind-the-scenes clashes, misaligned acting styles, and the pursuit of personal ambitions. Michelle Williams plays Monroe and Kenneth Branagh plays Olivier.

A Prince And A Showgirl, On Location And At Odds

A Yankee At Court: In My Week with Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) is on location in England with her then-husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. Laurence Cendrowicz/The Weinstein Co. hide caption

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A Prince And A Showgirl, On Location And At Odds

Michelle Williams tackles screen icon Marilyn Monroe in a movie about moviemaking — she's filming a comedy with Laurence Olivier, and it's not going well.

'Dangerous Method': Shocking Therapy For A Hysteric

'Dangerous' minds? Psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) applies the talking cure to Sabina (Keira Knightley) a young woman diagnosed with what was then called hysteria. Sony Pictures Classics hide caption

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'Dangerous Method': Shocking Therapy For A Hysteric

In the early 20th century, Carl Jung uses the techniques of Sigmund Freud — and a few of his own — to treat a "hysterical" patient. Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen star.