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Movie review: 'Oliver Twist'
Tribune arts critic2½ stars (out of four) News of yet another "Oliver Twist" does not necessarily provoke shivers of anticipation. It's no crime against humanity, or orphans, or Charles Dickens, to admit it. News, however, that the latest adaptation comes from director...Tags: Charles Dickens, England, Czech Republic, Ronald Harwood, Entertainment
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Movie review: The White Countess'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) A great cinematic partnership reaches its final chapter in "The White Countess" -- the last of the collaborations between director James Ivory and his late producer Ismail Merchant -- and, for me, it ends on a very high note,...Tags: James Ivory, Armed Forces, Dining and Drinking, Allan Corduner, Vanessa Redgrave
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Toshiro Mifune, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Peter Sellers
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Jackson plays challenging role of 'Ring'-bearer
NEW YORK - So universal is the interest in J.R.R. Tolkien that the bespectacled image of Peter Jackson, the 40-year-old New Zealander who co-adapted and directed three films of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy in one swoop, has now been seen by...Tags: Arts and Culture, Fritz Lang, Entertainment, Peter Jackson, Liv Tyler
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Movie review: "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace"
Tribune Movie Critic3 ½ stars (out of 4) "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace," like many another pop movie phenomena, becomes many things as we watch it: a vast science fiction epic and a huge moving-picture toy catalog. A twisted family saga of mock-Elizabethan...Tags: Toshiro Mifune, Social Issues, Ben Burtt, Entertainment, Akira Kurosawa
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Movie review, 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' by Michael Wilmington
George Lucas has the last laugh, or at least the penultimate chuckle, with "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones." The fifth movie in his long-running series of grandiose, light-hearted space operas and the second in chronological order is the...Tags: Ben Burtt, Entertainment, Samuel L. Jackson, Television, Science Fiction (genre)
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Cecil B. DeMented
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 11, 2000 What better place to launch a broadside at mindless mainstream movies than from within a mainstream movie? John Waters, Baltimore's master of subversive cinema, knows this better than anyone as he takes aim at big-deal, big-...Tags: Gaming, Melanie Griffith, Ricki Lake, Entertainment, Movies
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5 films that are great British war adventures
1. THE FOUR FEATHERS (Zoltan Korda; 1939) 3 1/2 stars Based on A.E.W. Mason's much-filmed novel of love, friendship and heroic sacrifice by young British soldiers in the 19th Century Sudanese war, this Korda production is often cited as one of the great...Tags: Peter O'Toole, World War I (1914-1918), Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Michael Caine
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Top winners from 1962
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud in BIRD MAN OF ALCATRAZ Harold Hecht Productions; UA Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay in DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Martin Manulis-Jalem Productions; Warner Bros. Marcello...Tags: Peter O'Toole, Roxbury, Geraldine Page, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft
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Top winners from 1955
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Ernest Borgnine as Marty Pilletti in MARTY Hecht and Lancaster's Steven Productions; UA James Cagney as Martin Snyder in LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME MGM James Dean as Cal Trask in EAST OF EDEN Warner...Tags: James Cagney, Betsy Blair, Ernest Borgnine, Susan Hayward, Katharine Hepburn
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5 films adapted from novels about WWII
1. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (Fred Zinnemann; 1953) 4 stars An excellent adaptation of James Jones' look at Pearl Harbor barracks life just before the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. With Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr (rolling in the surf), Montgomery...Tags: Montgomery Clift, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Kirk Douglas, Ernest Borgnine, Entertainment
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'Lost in Translation'
Times Staff WriterStatistics are hard to come by, but citizens hungering for meatier roles for Bill Murray could be the largest unorganized group of moviegoers in the country. For all those people — and you know who you are — consider this official...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Tokyo (Japan), Cinema Industry, Anna Faris, Entertainment
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