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    Dec 23, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Star power put to the test in holiday showdown

    Tribune Newspapers
    HOLLYWOOD—The holiday movie season is filled with high-stakes showdowns—will Adam Sandler's "Bedtime Stories" topple Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" on Christmas Day?—but few December matchups can compare with Friday'...

    Tags: Adam Sandler, Theater, Employees, Hancock (movie), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)

    2. Dec 3, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Contender Q & A: Michelle Williams

    In "Wendy and Lucy," director Kelly Reichardt's quietly compelling look at life in transition, Michelle Williams plays one half of the title pair, a young woman who with her dog Lucy finds herself stranded in the Pacific Northwest while trying to make her way up to Alaska. In a performance of subtle power, Williams is somehow both understated and overwhelming.
    In "Wendy and Lucy," director Kelly Reichardt's quietly compelling look at life in transition, Michelle Williams plays one half of the title pair, a young woman who with her dog Lucy finds herself stranded in the Pacific Northwest while trying to make her...

    Tags: Academy Awards, Deception (movie), Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, Movies

    3. Dec 3, 2008 |Story| Newsday

  3. 'Rachel,' 'River,' lead Spirit Award nominees

    Anne Hathaway's family drama " Rachel Getting Married," the border-smuggling tale "Frozen River" and the Deep South saga "Ballast" led nominees Tuesday for the Spirit Awards with six nominations each, including best picture. Other best-picture nominees...

    Tags: Woody Allen, Sean Penn, Film Festivals, Robert Altman, Celebrity Mothers

    4. Dec 2, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Rachel Getting Married,' 'The Wrestler' get Indie Spirit noms

    "Ballast," an austere drama about a grieving man who forms a bond with a woman and her young son, "Frozen River," a somber tale about the relationship between two poverty-stricken women, and "Rachel Getting Married," an intimate drama about a young woman confronting her demons at her sister's nuptials, dominated the nominations for the2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards today, earning six each.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    "Ballast," an austere drama about a grieving man who forms a bond with a woman and her young son, "Frozen River," a somber tale about the relationship between two poverty-stricken women, and "Rachel Getting Married," an intimate drama about a young...

    Tags: Society, Robert Altman, Wrestling, Movies, Culture

    5. Nov 7, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. 'Synecdoche, New York' (3 1/2 stars!) stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams

    Most movies fling an audience from A to B to C so that the typical customer response to the average studio product—"Well, it was OK"—is elicited and there's a few more ducats in the coffers at the end of the day and no hard feelings. Being taken for a ride in comfortably predictable fashion: That's the idea.
    Tribune critic
    Most movies fling an audience from A to B to C so that the typical customer response to the average studio product—"Well, it was OK"—is elicited and there's a few more ducats in the coffers at the end of the day and no hard feelings. Being...

    Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Film Festivals, Family, Emily Watson, Movies

    6. Nov 2, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. The unreal Charlie Kaufman

    Tribune critic
    Charlie Kaufman doesn't go in for what he calls "faux-realism." There's a lot of it onscreen these days: Everything from the "Bourne" pictures to "Rachel Getting Married" to the forthcoming Mickey Rourke picture "The Wrestler" is shot with hand-held...

    Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Mickey Rourke, Film Festivals, Chicago International Film Festival, Movies

    7. Nov 14, 2008 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  7. 'Synecdoche, New York' intriguing but confusing

    <img src=&quot;http://www.southflorida.com/images/southflorida/stars/b2hstars-red.gif" width="68" height="15">You can look it up: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole ("wheels" for "car") or the other way around ("the law" for "policeman").
    Newsday
    You can look it up: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole ("wheels" for "car") or the other way around ("the law" for "policeman"). Is art a synecdoche? Is life? Those are just two of the many, many questions posed in...

    Tags: Boca Raton, Emily Watson, Movies, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener

    8. Nov 14, 2008 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  8. Like Sisyphus On A Treadmill, 'Synecdoche' Goes Nowhere

    With &quot;Synecdoche, New York,"the writer of the trippy "Being John Malkovich" takes us not inside the body of the eccentric actor but inside his own head for a couple of hours. But even fans of the cerebral Charlie Kaufman may find this falls under the general heading "too much information."
    Orlando Sentinel
    With "Synecdoche, New York,"the writer of the trippy "Being John Malkovich" takes us not inside the body of the eccentric actor but inside his own head for a couple of hours. But even fans of the cerebral Charlie Kaufman may find this falls under the...

    Tags: Emily Watson, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hope Davis, Roger Moore, Movies

    9. Nov 7, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Coming soon

    next friday Ballast (Strand Releasing) A single mom on the Mississippi Delta copes with a man from her past while struggling to raise her son. With Tarra Riggs and JimMyron Ross. Let the Right One In (Magnolia Pictures) A 12-year-old bullied boy finds...

    Tags: Let the Right One In (movie), Bruce Campbell, Pride and Glory (movie), Corporate Crime, Image Entertainment Incorporated

    10. Nov 14, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. In 'Synecdoche,' the parts don't quite make up the whole

    <img src=&quot;http://www.newsday.com/images/icons/2star.gif" border=0> The hotbed of anxiety and ego that can underlie a theater rehearsal or a routine visit to a doctor's office - that's one of several emotional textures that writer-director Charlie Kaufman (the screenwriter of <span class="i">Being John Malkovich </span>and <span class="i">Adaptation</span>) captures with low-key humor and precision in <span class="i">Synecdoche, New York</span>. Sadly, as the movie rambles along with its own brand of quasi-magical surrealism, the links to real experience grow scarcer and more frayed.
    The hotbed of anxiety and ego that can underlie a theater rehearsal or a routine visit to a doctor's office - that's one of several emotional textures that writer-director Charlie Kaufman (the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation)...

    Tags: Theater, Sony Corp., Emily Watson, Movies, Michelle Williams

    11. Nov 23, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. It's the right time to tell Harvey Milk's story, and Gus Van Sant is the right man to do it

    Long before making &quot;Milk," the film due Wednesday about the life and death of openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, director Gus Van Sant imagined a scene in which the voluble, charismatic Milk was dressed as Ronald McDonald. In that version, Dan White, a fellow city supervisor who shot and killed Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1978, was deep in a "sugar-infused rage" and "envisioned himself as the Twinkie sheriff and he shot Mayor McCheese, and Harvey was Ronald McDonald."
    Long before making "Milk," the film due Wednesday about the life and death of openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, director Gus Van Sant imagined a scene in which the voluble, charismatic Milk was dressed as Ronald McDonald. In that version,...

    Tags: Sean Penn, Cartoons, Milk, Beverly Hills, Minority Groups

    12. Oct 24, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Review: 'Synecdoche, New York'

    &quot; Synecdoche, New York," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's wildly ambitious directorial debut, recalls the Jorge Luis Borges story in which the imperial cartographers make a map of the empire so detailed and true-to-life that it takes on the exact dimensions of the territory and ends up covering it entirely. Jean Baudrillard famously inverted the story to illustrate his idea about the "precession of simulacra," a postmodern condition in which the representation of something comes before the thing it represents, breaking down the distinction between representation and reality completely.
    Movie Critic
    " Synecdoche, New York," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's wildly ambitious directorial debut, recalls the Jorge Luis Borges story in which the imperial cartographers make a map of the empire so detailed and true-to-life that it takes on the exact dimensions...

    Tags: Emily Watson, Halloween, Movies, Depression, Michelle Williams

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