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'Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood'
From the time Adolf Hitler became Germany's chancellor in 1933 to the opening salvos of World War II in 1939, about 800 actors, directors, writers, composers and producers fled Europe for the safety of America. The Third Reich's loss was Hollywood's...Tags: Hedy Lamarr, Family, Celebrity Mothers, Vampires, Celebrity
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood" (CPTV, 9:30 p.m.) reminds us that Germany was way ahead in various aspects of film art until the rise of Nazism caused many of the region's finest practitioners to go the U.S.. The list includes directors Fritz...Tags: Hedy Lamarr, New Year's Day, Fritz Lang, The Bride of Frankenstein (movie), Cloris Leachman
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'From Hitler To Hollywood' Best New Year's Offering
With the end of the year comes the flowering of the cinematic arts (or at least the films that want to win Oscars). So it's fitting that some of the biggest specials on TV this week also concern film. The most splendid of them is the New Year's Day...Tags: Roger Daltrey, Fritz Lang, Utah, Restaurant and Catering Industry, CSI (tv program)
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Director Marc Abraham tells story of common man with 'Genius'
Sun Movie CriticJohn Seabrook, the author of the original New Yorker story about Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, loves the movie adaptation with the same name, Flash of Genius. It retains every pungent line Seabrook put on paper, no...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Frank Capra Jr., Ford Motor Co., Roddy Doyle, Invention and Innovation
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Oscar nom turns Austria's eyes to Ruzowitzky
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor months now, Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky has been abiding by a superstition whenever his film "The Counterfeiters" is mentioned in the same breath as the Academy Awards. "I don't use the 'O-word,' " Ruzowitzky said with a sheepish grin. The O-...Tags: Encino, Family, Civil Unrest, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Religious Conflicts
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Shows to watch
'The Day of the Jackal' 7 p.m., TCM Still one of movie history's smoothest blends of fact and fiction, veteran director Fred Zinnemann's wonderfully European-flavored 1973 version of the Frederick Forsyth best seller casts British actor Edward Fox as...Tags: Daniel Roebuck, Cynthia Stevenson, Charles de Gaulle, Emergency Incidents, Alaska
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Oscar Winner Paul Scofield Dies at 86
Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86. Scofield, who had been suffering from leukemia, died Wednesday in a...Tags: Diseases, William Shakespeare, Richard Burton, Literature, Olivia de Havilland
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Ronald Colman, Dick Powell, Lillian Hellman, Melville, Vanessa Redgrave
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Directors without borders
Times Staff WriterOn May 1, Alejandro González Iñárritu skipped out on the final mix of his film "Babel" to take his family to the immigration rallies in downtown L.A. While his absence might have given heartburn to the production staff hurtling to get the Brad Pitt-Cate...Tags: Tommy Lee Jones, Celebrity, Jack Kerouac, Fritz Lang, Oklahoma
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Movie review: '5X2'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Francois Ozon's "5X2," like Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal," is a tale of blighted love told backward. But though both Pinter's and Ozon's stories begin at the end and proceed to the beginning—and though both show a couple whose...Tags: Family, Eric Rohmer, Values, Movies, George Lucas
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Brando revealed the soul of his characters
Sun Movie CriticMarlon Brando's extraordinary emotional intelligence expressed itself in every inch of his body for every second - the phrase "being in the moment" might as well have been coined for him. Of course, other actors in New York and Hollywood had been as...Tags: Celebrity, Philip Kaufman, Missouri, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Tennessee Williams
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'From Here to Eternity'
Times Staff WriterSome motion pictures are born great, others achieve greatness over time, but only the truly exceptional have had it both ways. Rapturously received from the moment it was released in 1953, "From Here to Eternity" remains, half a century later, a...Tags: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Sid Caesar, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Deborah Kerr
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