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'The Exiles' (3 1/2 stars!) stars Yvonne Wilson, Homer Nish, Tommy Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez
Tribune criticFilm preserves a city's ghosts, and when we see artifacts of a long-vanished past on screen, our response often mixes melancholy with gratitude. The young Stanley Kubrick's images of Manhattan street life, as well as the old Pennsylvania Station, in...Tags: Gene Siskel, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, Stanley Kubrick, Movies
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'The 400 Blows' -- 4 stars / 'Antoine and Colette' -- 3 1/2 stars (both directed by Francois Truffaut)
Tribune movie criticShot in supple black and white in widescreen Dyalscope, Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork "The 400 Blows" seems forever young. Why? Partly because of its casting; partly because Truffaut knew how to communicate to an audience eager for unsentimental...Tags: Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Music Theater, Music Box Theatre, Jean-Luc Godard
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'Juno' scores at Spirit Awards
The quirky coming-of-age comedy "Juno" cleaned up at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon as it continues its Cinderella season going into Sunday night's Academy Awards.
And Ellen Page and stripper-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody...Tags: Robert Altman, Heath Ledger, Todd Haynes, Film Festivals, Cinderella
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'Juno' Tops the Independent Spirit Awards
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe pregnancy comedy "Juno" was chosen as the year's best independent film and won two other honors Saturday at the Spirit Awards, including best actress for Ellen Page. The ceremony was a warmup for Hollywood's big show, Sunday's Academy Awards, where...Tags: Radio Industry, Todd Haynes, Robert Altman, Film Festivals, Richard Gere
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Valerie Harper tackles Tallulah
Special to The TimesTHESE days, the actress formerly known as Rhoda sports personas vastly different from the straight-talking New Yorker she created for television's classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff, "Rhoda." Three decades later, Valerie Harper...Tags: Charles Busch, Pearl S Buck, Tallulah Bankhead, Valerie Harper, Golda Meir
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Will Spielberg take a walk on the wild side?
Special to The TimesSteven Spielberg, who at 22 was hired by Universal to a long-term contract, started out his career as the teacher's pet of the Movie Brat generation. With the unveiling of his first Indiana Jones escapade in 19 years today at Cannes, he's proffering yet...Tags: Jonathan Demme, Poetry, Liam Neeson, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese
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'Judgment at Nuremberg' Screenwriter Dies
Abby Mann, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 1961's "Judgment at Nuremberg" and such acclaimed TV movies as 1973's " The Marcus-Nelson Murders" and 1989's "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story," died Tuesday of heart failure in Beverly Hills. He...Tags: Trials, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Stanley Kramer, Death and Dying, Film Festivals
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Spirit Awards announces '08 nominees
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "I'm Not There," "Juno," "A Mighty Heart" and "Paranoid Park" received Best Feature Film nominations today for the 2008 Film Independent's Spirit Awards. Actress Lisa Kudrow and actor Zach Braff announced the nominees...Tags: Culture, Santa Monica, Zach Braff, Film Festivals, Academy Awards
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Actor Ulrich Mühe: in focus
The versatility of Ulrich Mühe -- one of Germany's leading actors, who died last month of stomach cancer -- is on display in two movies being released on DVD today: "The Lives of Others" and "The Castle."
Winner of the Oscar for best foreign language...Tags: Parker Posey, Diseases, Franz Kafka, Death and Dying, Cancer
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Without smoking, films lose some fire
THE PORTRAIT photographer Marion Ettlinger once told me that the worst thing to ever happen to her art form was the demise of smoking. A cigarette, after all, not only gives a subject something to do with his hands, it seems to provide an uncanny cure for...Tags: Peter Bogdanovich, Virginia, Jim Jarmusch, Movies, Photography
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Movie review: 'Paris Je T'aime'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) Paris, the city of light, love and cinema, casts its dreamy spell once again in "Paris, je t'aime," an anthology of 18 love stories from 20 world-renowned filmmakers, all set in various famous Parisian neighborhoods, tourist spots,...Tags: Wes Craven, Nick Nolte, Marianne Faithfull, Alfonso Cuaron, Gus van Sant
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Movie review: 'Broken English'
Tribune movie critic2½ stars (out of four) A self-effacing directorial debut from Zoe Cassavetes, "Broken English" contains one of the year's best scenes: the semi-drunken prelude to a one-nighter involving a Manhattan hotel guest services manager, played by Parker Posey,...Tags: Parker Posey, Sofia Coppola, Gena Rowlands, Celebrity Mothers, Celebrity
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