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James Franco directs Lindsay Lohan in new R.E.M. music video
A forbidding mixture of droning guitars and sub-Beat poetry about the ocean and Walt Whitman, R.E.M.'s "Blue" didn't seem like a song in need of additional artiness when it closed the veteran alt-rock band's 2011 swan song, "Collapse Into Now." A year...
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Richard Leacock dies at 89; documentary filmmaker pioneered cinema verite technique
Richard Leacock, a documentary filmmaker and pioneer of the unobtrusive cinema verite camera technique, has died. He was 89.
Leacock died Wednesday in Paris, said his daughter Victoria Leacock Hoffman. He had been in declining health and had taken...Tags: D.A. Pennebaker, Jean-Luc Godard, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, U.S. Army
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ESPN's '30 for 30': The world's most unlikely indy film festival
The Big PictureI go to film festivals to see the kind of idiosyncratic, personal movies big Hollywood studios rarely make anymore. But for the last 15 months, I've been watching a wonderfully engaging film festival with passionate and provocative movies on TV,...... -
Shopping: Gimme Albert Mayslesâ eyeglasses!
All The RageAlbert Maysles, along with his late brother David, directed documentaries such as âGimme Shelterâ and âGrey Gardensâ that captured the 1970s-era zeitgeist and set the bar for documentary filmmaking. âGrey Gardens,â which revealed the squalid... -
Lehigh Valley native filmed DVD for Slash's hit new album, 'Apocalyptic Love'
Lehigh Valley MusicWhen Palmerton native Noah Berlow was chosen last year to be the filmmaker to go into the studio with former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash to document the recording of his second solo album, it came with a warning. Slash...... -
TV pays homage to the 10th anniversary of 9/11
Zap2ItWe know it's coming, yet that doesn't make it any easier. Watching the planes slice through the towers and the towers crumble, seeing the Pentagon smoldering, and knowing the brave sacrifice that took place above a field in Pennsylvania -- all remain...Tags: Animal Planet (tv network), Human Interest, Paul McCartney, United Air Lines, Showtime (tv network)
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Tony nominations unveiled
Signaling a possible breakthrough for a new generation of composers whose bona fides are not in theater but in rock, "Spring Awakening," a musical hailed for bringing a fresh and authentic rock edge to a 19th century German tale about teenagers' sexual...Tags: Television, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Vanessa Redgrave, Theater, Minority Groups
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Tony noms fete Broadway's year of the biography
If there's any doubt that we're living in a golden age of creative nonfiction, the nominations for this year's Tonys, which will be awarded Sunday night, should squelch it.
Have there ever been more actors nominated for playing real-life characters?...Tags: Television, Harold Prince, Vanessa Redgrave, Theater, David Frost
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Drew Barrymore, HBO Plant 'Gardens'
Zap2It.comHBO has lined up a pair of big names for its movie adaptation of the 1970s documentary "Grey Gardens." Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange have been tapped to star in the film, about the eccentric aunt and cousin of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy...Tags: Television, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Broadway Theater, Comedy (genre), Entertainment
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'Gypsy Caravan'
Times Staff WriterThe term "Gypsy," often used pejoratively, conjures images of wastrels, vagabonds, fortunetellers and thieves, not to mention a distant memory of Cher (the Sonny & version) belting out, "I was born in the wagon of a traveling show ... " The label has...Tags: Theater, Cher, Entertainment, Music Theater, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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'Stolen'
Times Staff Writer"Stolen" is about a puzzle that's resisted solution for more than 15 years, but that doesn't stop it from being a fascinating, adventurous documentary with a lively and eccentric cast of characters. The puzzle comes in two interconnected parts: Who...Tags: Arts and Culture, Theft, Arts, Campbell Scott, Documentary (genre)
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ESPN prepares to offer 30 documentaries in 15 months
WatchdogOn Friday I attended a panel discussion on the making of sports documentaries that featured four filmmaking luminaries: Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter," "Grey Gardens"), Barry Levinson ("Diner," "The Natural," "Rain Man"), Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Larry Holmes, Reggie Miller, Ceremonies, Sports
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