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If you're head over heels for the ballet, we've got some good news: The New York City Ballet announced last week that they would be hosting two open dress rehearsals of Susan Stroman's Double Feature this month. The company began the open rehearsals last year with Peter Martins's Romeo + Juliet, and they hope to continue them annually.

Due to the Writer's Guild of America strike, Hollywood's party, the Golden Globes Awards were transformed from a boozy, fun dinner party to a press conference where presenters from entertainment programs like Extra! and E! News got to announce the winners. Yes, it was as painful as it sounded (Giuliana Rancic, it's not about you); many said they couldn't believe they were announcing the winners but said they would prefer it with the stars. Inside Edition's Jim Moret struck a classy note when he acknowledged the Hollywood Foreign Association (the organization that doles out the Golden Globes) President Jorge Camara.

The Gotham Awards gala run by the Independent Feature Project (IFP) will be held in Brooklyn for the first time tonight, after 17 years spent bouncing around between Roseland, Hammerstein Ballroom and Chelsea Piers. This year the independent film awards will take place on the soundstage of Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Among the thousand-plus guests expected to attend are Javier Bardem, Sean Penn, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Brooklyn’s...

The New Yorker was actually shut out, not garnering a single award for any of its nine nominations; it was the most-nominated publication in 2007. New York's five awards were for General Excellence (250,000 to 500,000 circulation), Profile Writing, Magazine Section, and Design. The magazine's online site nymag.com won an award for Interactive Feature. Other big winners last night were National Geographic and Vanity Fair, with two awards each. Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists were other winners of General Excellence awards. If you'd like to judge for yourself, links to all of the nominated and winning articles are available here.

A look at some noteworthy programs this week:

is the French-Russian director's first movie and it's not surprising it won both Best First Feature at the Venice Film Festival in 2005 and the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema at this year's Sundance. Shot in black and white and in Cinemascope, the movie seems to be both an old time noir while also a very modern story about the immigrant experience in France. Bablauni wrote, directed and produced the movie on a very small budget, with lots of family and friends in the cast—his main character Sebastien is played excellently by Gela's younger brother Georges. But unlike some flashy Hollywood thriller, Bablauni lets the story unfold quietly but with intensity and as Sebastien realizes he's become embroiled in an underworld roulette game, you're literally on the edge of your seat. Without giving away the ending or any more of this fascinating plot, the final moments made us gasp out loud.

JC: ALL RIGHT! I just took extra Vitamin C - I'm waiting for some food delivery.

New Feature Alert! In a city filled with music, bands and venues we sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed and underenthused. So here's the deal, we are going to write about one NYC band each week. We want to introduce you to some new music that we've heard, and we want you to introduce us to some new music as well (see end of post). We're all listening through cluttered ears, but that's only because we know there's something worth listening to out there.

There's only one major wide release this weekend, and although it stars an Oscar winner, we can pretty much guarantee Paramount isn't expecting any year-end kudos for . In fact, it looks like the studio is hoping to slyly score a big opening weekend on the draws of Charlize Theron in skintight rubber and fans of the old MTV animated series because they aren't letting critics anywhere near it -- apparently no press screenings have been or will be held.

There are some great benefits happening around town tonight, we suggest you hit one, or both, up if you have the time.

Gen Art is well underway with its decadent parties and premieres. The good news is there are still five more nights of revelry. What makes Gen Art unique is that it only screens seven features and seven shorts, while other fests screen tens of hundreds of films. And each night’s film is followed by an afterparty at some hot spot with 2-hour open bar. Also unlike other festivals, this one is more audience-driven and accessible.

This year's competition jury has three Americans: Novelist Edwidge Danticat, Kathleen Turner, and Quentin Tarantino, who is the chair and has already been on a Cannes panel about piracy: "I would be a liar if I was to say, across the board, no piracy."

I would say that almost all the interviews-- 95% plus --focus on McNamara, and not on the film as a film.

Oscar Commentary
Oscar is celebrating its 75th anniversary, I'm celebrating my 25th anniversary of watching Oscar.

The evening is over, while Gothamist will be following up with extensive commentary about the actual Oscar telecast, here are the winners and some post-game analysis:

If you're a member of the Independent Feature Project, take advantage of the second Charlotte Sometimes showing this weekend at the Pioneer Theater in the East Village, as part of the screening schedule for Independent Spirit Award nominated films. Charlotte Sometimes was nominated for two - Best Supporting Actress, Jacqueline Kim, and Best feature under $500,000. The only other things I know about it are that Roger Ebert thought it was a wonderful film (he's iffy lately, but he's a great advocate of rising filmmakers), romance plays a role, and that it has an Asian cast. I feel very strongly about supporting Asian filmmakers, which probably contributed to about 60% of the reasons why I saw Maid in Manhattan and Autumn in New York in theaters. Better Luck Tomorrow, which made a splash Sundance last year for showing a seedy side of Asian-American youth, will be released this spring by MTV Films, but Charlotte Sometimes does not have distribution yet, which is why I'm glad I'm an IFP member. An interview with Eric Byler, director of Charlotte Sometimes. Charlotte Sometimes is also the title of a song by the Cure - is that where the film gets its name?

The New York Emmys were announced today and to no one's surprise, WNBC led the pack. The Daily News has more but I'd like to let Jake know his favorite reporter, Toni Sencal, was nominated for "Multi-Part News Feature" for her "Weird New York" series plus "Entertainment Reporting." PDF of the nominees. I'm sure Jake will be at the Regent on March 30, 2003, hoping for a glance.

As a hopeless cinephile, I feel that the year I spend watching movies is like having a crush on some unattainable person. It makes me feel alive, with all the planning and dreaming and effort I put into it, and somehow, even when I see a bad movie, it’s okay, because it’s one of the knocks I take in wishing that maybe this in time, after paying $10+ for a movie, it might reward my desperate passion with an enlightening moment that can transcend time and place. (For the record, that includes Owen Wilson’s goofiness, Katharine Hepburn trying to hit Cary Grant, and the way Christopher Doyle moves a camera.)