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Telluride Film Festival unveils slate
The 2007 Oscar awards season has officially begun.
The Telluride Film Festival, the Colorado celluloid fete that serves as an intimate family reunion for cinephiles and a launch pad for specialty-film Oscar campaigns, unveiled its 34th annual lineup this...Tags: Upton Sinclair, Roger Ebert, Drama (genre), Paul Thomas Anderson, Marcia Gay Harden
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Jane Campion's 'Bright Star' poetry
Film CriticJane Campion has been many things, including the only woman to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and an inspiration, she only recently found out, to Quentin Tarantino, who confided that her success with "The Piano" emboldened him to feel "you...Tags: Death, Festive Events, Quentin Tarantino, Spider-Man (fictional character), Abbie Cornish
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New Zealand is abuzz about its towering 'genius,' Peter Jackson, lord of the trilogy
Special to The TimesHe's described locally as a "genius masquerading as an ordinary person," a creative whirlwind, finan-cial powerhouse and folk hero rolled into one. Yet even that can't quite measure the effect "The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson has had on...Tags: Politics, Richard Taylor, Gaming, Drama (genre), Finance
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The Wings of the Dove
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 7, 1997 Despite a dense, convoluted writing style that makes no concessions to readers in a hurry, magisterial novelist Henry James has lately become a favorite of movie-makers. This last year has seen Jane Campion's "Portrait of a...Tags: Iain Softley, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter, Agnieszka Holland, Steven Soderbergh
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Holy Smoke
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 3, 1999 "Holy Smoke," a high-risk, darkly comic triumph, is the most unabashedly outrageous movie Jane Campion has made since her debut, "Sweetie," a decade ago. Like that film's heroine "Holy Smoke's" Ruth is at intense odds with...Tags: Kate Winslet, Pam Grier, Movies, Ines Sastre, Jean Reno
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Soft Fruit
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 7, 2000 "Soft Fruit" asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life. The difference between this film, a first feature for writer-director Christina Andreef, and works by her executive...Tags: Mischa Barton, Leslie Bibb, Marg Helgenberger, Emmanuelle Seigner, Forest Whitaker
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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: Walter Matthau, Bob Hoskins, Atom Egoyan, Kate Winslet, Lena Olin
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Movie review, 'He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not'
Audrey Tautou, the adorable French star of "Amelie," has a wicked glint in her angel eyes that usually reads as something mischievous but, in a darker context, can be unsettling. In "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not," a French psychological thriller set in...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Thriller (genre), Chicago Tribune, Audrey Tautou, Alfred Hitchcock
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Congestion ahead
The period from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day is the busiest moviegoing time of the year. To take advantage of this annual rush to the theaters -- as well as to draw maximum attention to Oscar-aspiring films -- the studios cram many of their high-...Tags: Al Pacino, Stephen King, Kate Winslet, Civil Unrest, Gaming
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'Turn of the Screw' at City Lit has some chills, but not enough thrills 'Turn of the Screw' has chills, but few thrills
Special to the TribuneWritten on the cusp of the 20th Century, Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" is one of those deeply disrupted texts in which the authorial preference for conventional characters and familiar narrative events serves only to mask deep-seated...Tags: Death, Stranger Than Fiction, Deborah Kerr, Fiction
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Sep 14, 1999
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Nov 24, 1999
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