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Show lays bare the dark side of progress
Tribune criticThe Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is perhaps best known in the West from Jia Zhangke's feature film "Still Life," which won the top award at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. But in that movie, it was a backdrop, whereas in "Displacement:...Tags: Painting, Venice, Art Institute of Chicago, Movies, Tickets
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End-Credit Dances Worth The Wait
The Hartford CourantWhen the Oscar nominations are announced later this month, one underrated feature will again be overlooked: the closing-credit dance sequence. This year's would-be nominees range from the inevitable — "Mamma Mia!" — to the very improbable:...Tags: Danny Boyle, Steve Martin, Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Tropic Thunder (movie), Dance
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The art and life of Louise Bourgeois
Documentarian Brigitte Cornand first met the now 97-year-old artist Louise Bourgeois in 1994 and over the next dozen years collaborated on a trio of videos. Now, Film at REDCAT will screen "Chère Louise," the first installment in the trilogy, on Monday...Tags: Dean Stockwell, Opera, Los Angeles, Ingmar Bergman, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Olga San Juan, 81, film star, dancer
The Associated PressOlga San Juan, the actress dubbed the "Puerto Rican Pepperpot" for singing and dancing roles alongside the likes of Bing Crosby, has died. She was 81. San Juan died Saturday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, of kidney failure stemming...Tags: Bing Crosby, Tito Puente, Fred Astaire, Movies, Cinema Industry
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A LACMA tribute to director Troell
Clint Eastwood isn't the only septuagenarian directing remarkable movies. Swedish director Jan Troell, 77, is as active today as he was when he began working as a filmmaker in 1966.
His latest movie, the period drama "Everlasting Moments," is nominated...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Ingmar Bergman, Movies
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Hollywood rarely did Donald Westlake justice
One of the enigmas in the long and rich career of Donald E. Westlake was that this author of more than 100 novels, many of them popular, accessible and plot-driven works of crime fiction, both grim and comic, received such a spotty handling by Hollywood....Tags: New Year's Day, James Robert Thompson, National Football League, Jim Brown, William Goldman
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Highbrow films (such as 'Frost/Nixon') wait and see
“I’ve Loved You So Long” is the kind of acclaimed foreign-language movie that should do solid business in unprovincial locations such as New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Nashville and St. Louis. Ten weeks after Sony Pictures Classics first...Tags: Culture, Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Paramount, Milk (movie), Frozen River (movie)
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A good Road to take
J.P. Taravella HighThe 1950s is an era remembered for freshly-cut lawns, gray business suits and happy-go-lucky families who all had a "swell" time. But Revolutionary Road claims otherwise as it explores the complex relationship between two unconventional people who...Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Real Estate Agents, Kathy Bates, Movies, Kate Winslet
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'Knight,' 'Iron' battling for effects Oscar
LOS ANGELES—Superheroes Batman, Iron Man and Hellboy are mixing it up with Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and an ancient mummy for the visual-effects Academy Award. The Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" is one of seven films competing for the Oscar,...Tags: Iron Man (movie), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (movie), Batman, Australia (movie), Journey to the Center of the Earth (movie, 2008)
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'Damages' brings intrigue to FX
Why does the word "melodrama" get such a bad rap? If the word is used as a description, it's usually meant as a warning sign. Yet the terrific new season of "Damages" (9 p.m. Wednesday, FX ***1/2) proves just how entertaining well-made melodrama can be....Tags: Ted Danson, Employees, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bette Davis, William Hurt
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DiCaprio, Eastwood are Palm Springs film winners
Associated Press WriterThe world economy is in dire straits, but you sure wouldn't know it from the red carpet at the 20th-annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. The actresses were dripping with jewels, actors donned high fashion, and logos of jeweler...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Hoffman, Milk (movie)
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Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner Have Another Baby Girl
Zap2It.comBen Affleck continues to surround himself with girls. The Oscar winner and his wife Jennifer Garner welcomed another baby girl into the family on Tuesday in Los Angeles, report celebrity news sites. "Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck gave birth to a...Tags: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Los Angeles, Celebrity, Movies
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