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Something familiar this way comes
With the curtain going up on 2001 amid rising costs, labor uncertainty and decreasing ticket sales despite "record" box office, Hollywood is betting unusually heavily this year on so-called "tent-pole" titles, many of them sequels or big star vehicles....Tags: Bruce Willis, Jude Law, Chris Tucker, Daniel Day-Lewis, Pixar Animation
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5 films from Monty Python's Flying Circus guys, together or separately
1. AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (Ian McNaughton; 1971). 3 stars The masters of high-brow jokes, gross gags and silly twittery, Monty Python's Flying Circus (including actor-writers Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and...Tags: Kevin Kline, Terry Jones, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
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We won't want for wide-screen choices
Yes, this summer you'll have the chance to see a lot of movies, even more than last year, as the studios try to build on last summer's record-breaking grosses while the multiplexes provide more and more screens for them to do so. Have at it. As always,...Tags: Documentary (genre), Chris Kattan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Ricci, Matthew Davis
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'Prisoner of Paradise'
Times Staff Writer"Prisoner of Paradise" is a strange story wrapped in a stranger one, an engrossing documentary about one of the least known and most unexpected aspects of the Nazi war against the Jews. The strange story is how a pitilessly fraudulent 1944 German...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Documentary (genre), Judaism, Civil Unrest, Fritz Lang
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Top winners from 1981
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Warren Beatty as John "Jack" Reed in REDS J.R.S. Production; Paramount Henry Fonda as Norman Thayer, Jr. in ON GOLDEN POND ITC Films/IPC Films Production; Universal Burt Lancaster as Lou in...Tags: Paul Newman, Elizabeth McGovern, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Burt Lancaster
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Movie review, 'Wisconsin Death Trip'
Bristling with images of long-ago madness, misfortune and murder suffered by the inhabitants of a small 19th-century Midwestern town, "Wisconsin Death Trip" is a piece of twisted Americana that stays eerily in your mind. Based on one of the counterculture...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Documentary (genre), Travel, Natural Resources
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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: Wes Anderson, Debi Derryberry, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Loretta Devine
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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: Wes Anderson, Crime, Law and Justice, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Woo
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'The Day After Tomorrow'
Times Staff WriterHave we lost our appetite for cinematic destruction — for watching our world shatter into smithereens? I ask because in two of his previous films, "Independence Day" and "Godzilla," Roland Emmerich laid waste to the world — leveling its...Tags: Dennis Quaid, Weather, Transportation Accidents, David Brenner, White House
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Movie review: 'The Day After Tomorrow'
Tribune Movie Critic2-1/2 stars (out of 4) Global warming may be one of the great dangers facing our planet. But cliched scripts are still the No. 1 peril for the big Hollywood blockbuster. The pitfall of shtick plagues Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow," a...Tags: Dennis Quaid, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Weather
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Movie Studios Purchase Films at Sundance
AP Movie WriterDistributors pulled out their checkbooks at the Sundance Film Festival, whose first weekend closed with deals on some of the event's hot movies. Miramax and Fox Searchlight teamed to buy "Garden State," a romantic comedy that is one of 16 films in...Tags: Blanchard Ryan, Documentary (genre), Peter Sarsgaard, Jon Heder, Entertainment
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Fulfilling a Grand Quest
TIMES FILM CRITICWith an endeavor like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, it's the numbers that catch your eye first--and how could they not? An unprecedented three feature films shot simultaneously in 274 days spread over 15 months at a cost of nearly $300 million are...Tags: Sean Bean, New Year's Day, Andy Serkis, Richard Taylor, Sean Astin
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