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Movie review: 'Vitus'
Tribune arts critic2 stars (out of four) Ever wonder about the life of a childhood prodigy? One possible scenario of such a fate is explored in "Vitus," a Swiss movie that flirts back and forth between the French and German sensibilities at play in that nation. Vitus is a...Tags: PG Rated Movies, Movies, Drama (genre), Entertainment, Sony Corp.
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SPC Purchases Coppola's 'Youth'
Zap2It.comSony Pictures Classics has won the rights to "Youth Without Youth," Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade. Coppola wrote, directed and produced "Youth," which comes from the novel by Romanian author Mircea Eliade and stars Tim Roth as an...Tags: Movies, Francis Ford Coppola, Entertainment, Tim Roth, John Grisham
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'The Reader' stars Kate Winslet, David Kross, Ralph Fiennes, Lena Olin
Tribune criticCan a formidable actress redeem a pile of solemn erotic kitsch? Kate Winslet answers that one as honestly as she can in the film version of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel "The Reader," the tale of a 15-year-old West German boy who, in 1958, embarks on an...Tags: Sydney Pollack, Crimes, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, International Court or Tribunal
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'Luther'
Times Staff Writer"Rebel. Genius. Liberator." Who could those movie poster words possibly describe? A new Vin Diesel action hero? A different kind of secret agent? Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld? Good guesses, but wrong, wrong, wrong. The answer is "Luther." After a...Tags: Vin Diesel, Roman Catholicism, Movies, Vatican City, Alfred Molina
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Eternity and a Day
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 28, 1999 Theo Angelopoulos' towering, elegiac "Eternity and a Day" takes its title from the hero's late wife's answer to his question, "How long is tomorrow?" Facing death himself from cancer, Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a middle-aged Greek...Tags: Movies, Poetry, Cinema Industry, Entertainment, Hospitals and Clinics
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Movie review: 'Luther'
Special to the Chicago Tribune2-1/2 stars (out of 4) Earnest and educational but rather PBS-ish, this biopic about the life of Martin Luther will satisfy medieval genre fans, BBC junkies, Sunday-school teachers and students cramming for their European history tests. It'll probably...Tags: Movies, Alfred Molina, Peter Ustinov, Romance (genre), Joseph Fiennes
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In 'Bread & Tulips,' Life's Possibilities Slowly Bloom
TIMES STAFF WRITERSEE CORRECTION APPENDED Silvio Soldini's "Bread & Tulips" is a leisurely, beguiling account of a pretty, 40-ish, underappreciated housewife and mother of teenage sons. Left behind by a tour bus while on a family vacation, she decides to hitch a ride home...Tags: Breads, Family Vacations, Fiction, Education, University of California, Irvine
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Fall spotlight on movies
- denotes a movie to watch. "Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski). More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. The director is Spielberg's cinematographer and a local Columbia...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Cults and Sects, David Lynch, Christopher LLoyd, Science Fiction (genre)
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Michael Wilmington's top films of 1999
The end of a year is time for stock-taking. A decade calls for even more. And a century or a millennium? The sheer potential for memory or fact overload can be mind-boggling. So, what can we say about movies at the end of 1999? In the last century,...Tags: David Lynch, United Kingdom, Deere and Company, Emir Kusturica, Star Wars (movie)
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'Downfall'
Times Staff WriterEven during his last 12 days on this earth, Adolf Hitler was He Who Must Be Obeyed. Despite being isolated in a claustrophobic bunker 15 feet below the rubble-strewn streets of Berlin, he remained someone whose will compelled obedience in both a...Tags: Movies, Drama (genre), Society, Joseph Goebbels, Health and Safety at School
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Movie review: 'Downfall'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC4 stars (out of 4) "The banality of evil" was the phrase Hannah Arendt used to describe the mindset of Germany's death camp culture during World War II, and it perfectly fits the theme and subject of the new German film "Downfall." Few movies indeed have...Tags: Crimes, Movies, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Kretschmann, Crime, Law and Justice
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