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| Movie Review | 'Twilight': The Love That Dare Not Bare Its Fangs |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
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| Movie Review | 'Bolt': Canine TV Action Star Discovers That Life Is the Best Reality Show |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Bolt” is at once a knowing, satirical sendup of the Hollywood fame-and-fantasy machinery and a sleek product of the Disney-Pixar industrial complex.
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| Weinstein Co. Trims Staff |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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The film and television production company started three years ago by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein has had a hit-and-miss record.
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| Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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The actress pushed for favorable coverage while negotiating magazine rights to pictures of her new twins.
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| Film: Forever Screwball, Forever Fearless |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Carole Lombard, the beautiful, fearless screwball of her time, gets a retrospective.
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| Movie Review | 'Were the World Mine': Puck’s Love Potion, Splashed Across Town |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Were the World Mine,” an indie alternative to Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise, is a small, endearing film.
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| Movie Review | 'The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)': Convulsions of a Family and an Abandoned Country |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” is quiet, contemplative and impressionistic, which makes the story it has to tell all the more powerful.
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| Movie Review | 'Lake City': Suds, Southern Scenery and Fistfuls of Weaponry |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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When Sissy Spacek speaks her clichéd lines in the mediocre screenplay of “Lake City,” her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.
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| Movie Review | 'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29': Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Kevin Rafferty makes the case for remembrance and for the art of the story in his preposterously entertaining documentary “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.”
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| Movie Review | 'Special': Going Bonkers, Superhero Style |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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“Special” puts an indie spin on the current Hollywood vogue for moody superhero psychodrama.
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| Movie Review | 'I Can’t Think Straight': Love Beyond Boundaries |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.
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| Film Series and Movie Listings |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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| Irving Gertz, Composer for Monsters of the Movies, Dies at 93 |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Gertz was a prolific though often uncredited B-movie composer whose melodies haunt a spate of pictures with words like “Hell,” “Thing” and “Creature” in the titles.
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| For Studio, Vampire Movie Is a Cinderella Story |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years.
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| Arts, Briefly: James Bond Box Office Lowered by a Quantum |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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When final weekend box-office figures were reported for “Quantum of Solace,” the movie saw its record-breaking numbers stirred, but not dramatically shaken.
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| Irving Brecher, 94, Comedy-Script Writer, Is Dead |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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Mr. Brecher wrote vaudeville sketches, jokes, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series and screenplays for movie musicals including “Meet Me in St. Louis” and “Bye Bye Birdie.”
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| The Vampire of the Mall |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel “Twilight,” meets his squealing fans.
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| A Studio, a Star, a Fateful Bet |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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“Valkyrie” was conceived as a dramatic showcase for Tom Cruise, as well as a high-profile effort to kick-start United Artists.
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| Arts, Briefly: Backer for Killer Films |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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Killer Films, the independent company behind “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” has a new backer.
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Category: Venture Capital |
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| Wallace Shawn on ‘Gossip Girl’? It’s Not Inconceivable |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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The protean Wallace Shawn, an actor, playwright and emissary from the New York intelligentsia, has a recurring role on the prime-time CW soap opera.
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| James Bond, Armed With Record, Controls Box Office |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise.
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| A Night Out With | Robert Pattinson: Home by Daybreak |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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Hanging out with Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen, the handsome vegetarian vampire in the film “Twilight,” which opens Nov. 21.
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| Film Society Chooses Executive Director |
(Wed, 16 Jul 2008)
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Mara Manus, the Public Theater’s top financial executive, is taking the helm as the Film Society undergoes a $38 million expansion.
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| Front Row: We’re Off to See the Ruby Slippers |
(Thu, 17 Jul 2008)
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Betsey Johnson and 20 other designers are recreating Dorothy’s glittering ruby slippers to commemorate the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” next year to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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| Arts, Briefly: Cannes Winner to Open New York Film Festival |
(Wed, 16 Jul 2008)
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The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”).
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| Charles H. Joffe, Movie Producer, Is Dead at 78 |
(Tue, 15 Jul 2008)
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Mr. Joffe was a co-producer of Woody Allen’s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the careers of a host of high-profile comedians.
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| Paramount Drops Out of Plan to Raise $450 Million for Films |
(Tue, 15 Jul 2008)
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Paramount Pictures said it had pulled out of a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million.
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| Out of Control |
(Fri, 30 May 2008)
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An oral biography of the comedian Chris Farley.
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Category: Books and Literature |
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| ‘Sex and the City’ Leads Weekend Box Office |
(Tue, 17 Jun 2008)
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The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.
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| Fire Destroys Parts of a Popular Movie Lot in California |
(Mon, 02 Jun 2008)
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A fire at NBC Universal’s studio lot in Universal City, Calif., destroyed a vault full of movie and television images and parts of the popular studio tour. At least six firefighters were injured.
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| The Media Equation: Slumber Parties Go Digital |
(Mon, 02 Jun 2008)
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In the gender wars, men generally win the race to the bottom. This past week though, women were the ones who seemed completely preoccupied by the reproductive act.
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| Financier in Hollywood Strikes Deal in D.W.I. |
(Mon, 02 Jun 2008)
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Ryan Kavanaugh pleaded no contest to, and was convicted of, one count of driving under the influence of alcohol, while more serious charges were dropped.
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| Film: That License to Kill Is Unexpired |
(Fri, 30 May 2008)
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Ian Fleming, had he lived, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday. James Bond, his greatest invention, is ageless and immortal.
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| Film: Beauty, Brutality and Three Tough Mothers |
(Tue, 07 Oct 2008)
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Dario Argento’s latest danse macabre, “Mother of Tears,” starring his daughter Asia, is now on DVD.
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| Fashion Review: 10 Years Later, Carrie Coordinated |
(Mon, 02 Jun 2008)
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Fashion has been a regular character defining trait throughout the “Sex and the City” series, and in the film version, the fashion is jaw-droppingly fantastic.
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| Disney and Pixar: The Power of the Prenup |
(Sun, 01 Jun 2008)
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Two years in, the merger of Disney and Pixar is notable for how well the two companies have made it work.
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| Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines |
(Fri, 09 May 2008)
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“Speed Racer” sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
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| Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own |
(Fri, 09 May 2008)
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“Surfwise” has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it’s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
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| Movie Review | 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead': Going for the Finger-Licking Gusto |
(Thu, 08 May 2008)
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“Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
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| A Night Out With Ellen Page: Just a Girl From Halifax |
(Fri, 07 Dec 2007)
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While many actresses fantasize about wearing Valentino or Zac Posen on the red carpet, Ellen Page has a completely different idea.
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| A Knack for Being the Bad Boy |
(Sat, 15 Dec 2007)
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The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinter’s “Homecoming,” a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.
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| Tomorrow’s Oscar Hopefuls Today |
(Mon, 10 Dec 2007)
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The “Black List” has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
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| Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards |
(Wed, 05 Dec 2007)
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Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.
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| For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival |
(Wed, 05 Dec 2007)
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Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the school’s debating team.
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| Critic’s Choice: Respect in a Box: Giving John Ford the Major American Artist Treatment |
(Fri, 07 Dec 2007)
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“Ford at Fox” is a gargantuan boxed set that assembles 24 of the 50-some films John Ford made for the studio that was his most consistent home.
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| ‘Kite Runner’ Boys Are Sent to United Arab Emirates |
(Fri, 07 Dec 2007)
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After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing “The Kite Runner” has whisked to safety four young actors.
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| Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies |
(Mon, 03 Dec 2007)
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She no longer dances naked, but the first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is still exposing herself.
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| Down South, Singing the Indie Blues |
(Fri, 30 Nov 2007)
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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| Film on Mexico’s Disputed ’06 Election Stirs Emotions |
(Sun, 02 Dec 2007)
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A documentary about last year’s disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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Category: Mexico |
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| Striking Screenwriters Dismiss New Proposals |
(Fri, 30 Nov 2007)
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The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a “a massive rollback,” and called on their members to continue their walkout.
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Category: Writing and Writers |
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