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Madelyne Xiao

Madelyne Xiao

Madelyne Xiao '18 was a film writer for the Daily's Arts and Life section.
The Thing's stone body gives him epic strength and makes him virtually indestructible. Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.

Summer movie preview

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June 3, 2015
Shelley Duvall, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, producer Lorne Michaels, and Laraine Newman. Courtesy of Edie Baskin.

‘Live from New York’ falls short

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May 29, 2015

‘A Separation’ director’s exceptional ‘About Elly’ receives long-awaited U.S. release

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May 18, 2015
Isabella Rossellini in a scene from Jody Shapiro's ISABELLA ROSSELLINI’S GREEN PORNO LIVE!, playing at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 23 - May 7, 2015. Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society.

Capsule reviews: Female directors break the celluloid ceiling at SFFIF

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April 30, 2015

Life mirrors art in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’

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April 17, 2015
Amazon Prime users have access to Amazon's Instant Video collection. Photo courtesy of Rahim Ullah.

Ranking film and television streaming services

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April 10, 2015
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‘The Room’ director talks new sitcom project, directorial influences

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April 7, 2015

CAAMFest: An inside look at this year’s festival

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March 11, 2015

Trouble in Belfast: Yann Demange’s ‘ ’71’

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March 4, 2015

John Boorman’s ‘Queen and Country’

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Feb. 27, 2015
Sook (Diana Bang) with Aaron (Seth Rogen) and Dave (James Franco) in Columbia Pictures' THE INTERVIEW. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

‘The Interview’ and persistent orientalism in film

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Feb. 13, 2015
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Short but sweet: A look at this year’s Oscar nominated short films

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Feb. 6, 2015

Berlin and Beyond comes to Palo Alto tonight: ‘The King’s Surrender’ is a brooding study of brotherhood

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Feb. 2, 2015
PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 26: (L-R) Keri Putnam, Tracy Droz Tragos, Elisabeth Holm, Cristina Ibarra, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Kat Candler, Su Kim, and Sydney Freeland attend the Woman at Sundance Brunch during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2015 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Sundance)

Breaking the celluloid ceiling at the Sundance Film Festival

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Jan. 30, 2015
Julianne Moore as Alice. Photo by Linda Kallerus, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.

‘Still Alice,’ a moving portrait of an Alzheimer’s patient

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Jan. 16, 2015
Michael Keaton as “Riggan” in BIRDMAN. Courtesy of fox searchlight pictures

Xiao’s top five films of 2014

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Jan. 9, 2015
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Best books of 2014

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Jan. 8, 2015
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Revisiting five great films from the National Film Registry’s 25th class of inductees

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Jan. 6, 2015

Wiseman’s new documentary ‘National Gallery’

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Nov. 30, 2014

Eddie Redmayne and screenwriter Anthony McCarten on ‘The Theory of Everything’

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Nov. 13, 2014
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