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African American critics pick 'Dark Knight'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterChristopher Nolan's box office blockbuster "The Dark Knight," was named best picture of 2008 by the African American Film Critics Assn. today. The Batman thriller also won in the best supporting actor category for the late Heath Ledger's performance as...Tags: Christopher Nolan, National or Ethnic Minorities, Celebrity Mothers, Celebrity, The Dark Knight (movie)
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Mario Van Peebles Gets Soapy
Zap2It.comWe're not sure what route, exactly, takes you from "New Jack City" to "All My Children," but Mario Van Peebles has traveled it. Van Peebles is joining the cast of the ABC soap opera later this month. It's his second foray into daytime drama; one of his...Tags: Crown Heights, Susan Lucci, Vehicles
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Theater Preview
South Florida Sun-SentinelSubscriptions are still the primary currency of theater programs, with all sorts of "flex" options to hook patrons into returning. But what if the shows you want most to see in 2007-'08 are spread all over the map? This handy guide, geared to the...Tags: Florida Stage, Coral Springs, Literature, Music Theater, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Pass the popcorn and pick a film
gene.seymour@newsday.comSix years into its existence, the Tribeca Film Festival has gone from being a vehicle for a neighborhood's psychic and economic recovery from 9/11 to an irradiated spring fling so vast in scope that it's spread out far enough from lower Manhattan to...Tags: Julie Delpy, Albert Maysles, Rape, Elections, Tribeca
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Flick pick fast lane
The Chicago International Film Festival has started, and with more than 100 movies in the lineup, admit it: you're lost. Don't fret; we've got the flicks you can't miss--and the movies you wouldn't wish on your worst enemies. Plus, check metromix.com...Tags: Juan Uribe, Woody Allen, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Claire Danes, Drug Trafficking
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And the winner is...
International Film Competition Gold Hugo (Best Film): "My Nikifor" (Poland) Silver Hugo--Special Jury Prize: "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" (Romania) Silver Hugo Award--Best Actress: Inka Friedrich and Nadja Uhi, "Summer in Berlin" (Germany) Silver Hugo...Tags: Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Movies, Film Festivals, Animation
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'White Chicks'
Times Staff WriterThe rowdy "White Chicks" has Shawn and Marlon Wayans, handsome, buff and African American, passing themselves off as a pair of socialite sisters who seem rather clearly inspired by Paris and Nicky Hilton. Thanks to the wizardry of special effects...Tags: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Steven Bernstein, Society, Maitland, Nicky Hilton
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'Baadasssss!'
Times Staff WriterBack in 1971 Melvin Van Peebles, already one of the first black directors to have had a film in general release with "Watermelon Man" the year before, scorched screens across America with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," a surreal odyssey in which Van...Tags: Ossie Davis, Adam West, Michael Mann, Minority Groups, Vehicles
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Baadasssss!
STAFF WRITER(R). Melvin Van Peebles' quixotic struggle to make his groundbreaking 1971 feature, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," is chronicled in this slippery, brazenly entertaining paean to guerrilla filmmaking. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, who plays his...Tags: Vehicles, Movies
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'The Hebrew Hammer'
Times Staff WriterUnfunny rather than outrageous as intended, Jonathan Kesselman's "The Hebrew Hammer's" laborious self-described "Jewxploitation" comedy imagines a Brooklyn private eye, Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg), whose role model is Shaft. Known as the...Tags: Peter Coyote, Colorado, Ed Koch, Michael Cohen, Minority Groups
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Toward An Elusive Truth
Staff WriterThree years ago, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, having spent a successful decade in the business world, decided to return to movies with a documentary about children's party clowns. "I thought it would be fun to follow one of these people into their lives," he...Tags: Henry Kissinger, Child Abuse, Great Neck, Family, Police
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'Death' by steamroller
Gordon Cox is a regular contributor to Newsday."Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" will give you a headache, and not just because the sound system lends every voice a harsh, overamplified edge. Melvin Van Peebles' semi-musical can be interpreted as an angry social outcry or a lurid...Tags: Vehicles, Prostitution, Music Theater, Theater, Broadway
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