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Start new year with sins, cinema
It's resolution time, so here are some movies to help you define your failings. If you're not as bad as these characters, take the year off from self-improvement.
Lust
"9 1/2 Weeks": Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger play strangers who spend the title...Tags: Mickey Rourke, Paul Newman, Michael Douglas, Ashton Kutcher, Jackie Gleason
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'Synecdoche, New York' (3 1/2 stars!) stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams
Tribune criticMost 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: Charlie Kaufman, Film Festivals, Sony Corp., Evanston, Emily Watson
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'Synecdoche, New York'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comYou 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: Charlie Kaufman, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson, Movies, Catherine Keener
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'Margot' underwhelms
amNewYork Movie CriticIn Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding," Nicole Kidman plays a sister, mother and wife, flawed in every role -- but not bad-flawed. Good-flawed, you know, like a normal human being in a realistic drama. The movie opens with Margot on a train with...Tags: Movies, Family, John Turturro, Marriage, Jack Black
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Spirit Awards announces '08 nominees
"I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' quirky biopic on Bob Dylan, may have puzzled mainstream critics and audiences with its surrealistic vision of casting several actors and actresses as the famed troubadour -- a deep knowledge of Dylan and an open mind are...Tags: Zach Braff, Diving, Movies, Cate Blanchett, Parker Posey
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Gotham goes Into the Wild
"Into The Wild," written and directed by Sean Penn, took home the prize for best feature at tonight's 17th annual Gotham Awards ceremony.
The sweeping adventure film beat out four other nominees for the juried prize: "Great World of Sound," "I'm Not...Tags: Michael Moore, Ethan Hawke, Martin Sheen, Movies, Michael Bloomberg
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'I'm Not There,' 'Juno' Lead Spirit Award Noms
Zap2It.comWith four nominations, plus a pre-ordained ensemble acting award Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" lead the nomination field for Film Independent's 2008 Spirit Awards. While the inaugural Robert Altman Award helped the Bob Dylan semi-biopic lead the Spirit...Tags: Film Festivals, Diving, Gus van Sant, Movies, Cate Blanchett
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'Margot' family spectacle collapses into neurosis
Sun Movie Critic(F) That crunching sound you hear is Ingmar Bergman turning in his frigid Scandinavian grave. In Margot at the Wedding, the writer-director, Noah Baumbach, wants to ape the Bergman of The Passion of Anna and Persona and Saraband. But he never conveys that...Tags: Paramount, Rape, Movies, Family, Marriage
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Telluride Film Festival unveils slate
The 2007 Oscar awards season has officially begun.
The Telluride Film Festival, the Colorado celluloid fete that serves as an intimate family reunion for cinephiles and a launch pad for specialty-film Oscar campaigns, unveiled its 34th annual lineup this...Tags: Sony Corp., Festive Event, Abbas Kiarostami, Movies, Kevin Bacon
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Festival hits and misses
After months of mystery and rumors, the film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto in late summer each year are supposed to settle whether or not movies with early Oscar buzz are true contenders in the awards race.
Each year over Labor Day weekend,...Tags: Keira Knightley, Festive Event, Movies, Literature, Murder
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A new passion, a busy life
NICOLE KIDMAN volunteers that she was in a funk as far as acting was concerned, but insists it had nothing to do with approaching a certain age. She derides such milestones as artificial foolishness and, after all, "We could all be dead tomorrow. What...Tags: Betty Ford, Livestock Farming, Movies, Tennessee, Family
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Fishing, Music Theater, Emilio Estevez, Peter Weir, Keanu Reeves
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