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Toronto touts prestige pics
The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a lineup of prestigious films on Wednesday bound to attract awards and critical attention.
The festival's 32nd annual slate includes 349 films from 55 countries.
Among the highlights is the world premiere...Tags: Neil Jordan, Documentary (genre), Tony Gilroy, Jason Reitman, George Clooney
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Movie review: 'Shopgirl'
Tribune arts critic2½ stars (out of four) Claire Danes was not yet of driving age when she starred in the TV series "My So-Called Life" and made her second feature film, Gillian Armstrong's remake of "Little Women." The latter came out in late 1994 and caused people to...Tags: Claire Danes, Academy Awards, Michael Phillips, Movies, Jason Schwartzman
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Movie review: 'Japanese Story'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3-1/2 stars (out of 4) The desolate beauty of Australia's Pilbara Desert provides the haunting backdrop for director Sue Brooks' "Japanese Story," a romance-adventure-drama that keeps jarring us and the film's protagonist, cynical Perth geologist Sandy...Tags: Death, Toni Collette, Peter Weir, Chicago Tribune, Samuel Goldwyn
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'Charlotte Gray'
Times Staff WriterThe prospect of Cate Blanchett and director Gillian Armstrong, two of Australia's finest gifts to the international cinema, reteaming for the first time since their audacious 1997 "Oscar and Lucinda," could generate only high expectations. That Blanchett...Tags: Politics, Thriller (genre), Ralph Fiennes, Death, World War II (1939-1945)
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They could be heroes
Hollywood traffics in heroes, and this season is no different, but current events remind us that the qualifications for heroism on the big screen are, as ever, subject to the whims of history, politics and popular culture. It was bad enough when Kevin...Tags: Michael Mann, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sonny Liston, FBI, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A Winter Wonderland At The Movies
Courant Film CriticWith kindly and wicked monsters already on hand, and wizards young and old in the wings, fantasy rules in a holiday season shadowed by persistent mourning and pervasive fears. What better time for flying brooms and an all-powerful ring? The end-of-year...Tags: Flex Alexander, Scott Caan, Allen Garfield, George Clooney, Tom Sizemore
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Hollywood's great escape
Times Staff WriterAnthrax. Hijackings. Terrorism. Israelis and Palestinians at each other's throats. Destruction and loss of life on a staggering scale. Had enough? Eager to flee to another world, a place far removed from our terribly troubled one, a parallel universe, if...Tags: Helen Mirren, Michael Mann, Sissy Spacek, George Clooney, Walter Salles
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5 films that feature mother-daughter relationships
1. STELLA DALLAS (King Vidor; 1937) 3 1/2 stars The ultimate movie drama about a self-sacrificing mother, with Barbara Stanwyck in one of her finer hours as the mom who gives her all. From Olive Higgins Prouty's novel; filmed many times, but never as...Tags: Mahalia Jackson, Joan Crawford, Douglas Sirk, Academy Awards, Chicago Tribune
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Love Serenade
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 1, 1997 "Love Serenade" offers as precise and merciless a comic vision as anyone could want. A wickedly funny examination of obsessive romantic behavior, its satiric vision of women in love and men on the make was devastating enough to...Tags: Chinese Restaurants, Barry White, Barry Manilow, Miranda Otto, Movies
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The Portrait of a Lady
TIMES FILM CRITICTuesday December 24, 1996 "The Portrait of a Lady" is a marriage of opposites, a potent joining of the dispassionate psychological complexity of the novelist admirers called the Master and an assured and assertive director who relishes the intensity...Tags: Monty Montgomery, Shelley Winters, John Gielgud, Viggo Mortensen, Gramercy
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