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Movie review: 'Marie Antoinette'
Tribune staff reporter3 stars (out of four) Marie Antoinette has, in popular history, been accused of frivolity, irreverence and disdain for historical precedent. Sofia Coppola's indulgent, frothy biopic will be charged with precisely these same offenses. What more could a...Tags: Animals, Arts and Culture, History, Kirsten Dunst, Cinema Industry
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Royal lineage
Times Staff WriterWhen you are the third generation of a celebrated Hollywood family, when your father's an eminent director, people tend to underestimate you. It's been happening to Sofia Coppola all her life, and, frankly, it's fine by her. "I think it's an advantage,"...Tags: Arts and Culture, Apocalypse Now (movie), Family, Kirsten Dunst, Francis Ford Coppola
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See ya, summer movies!
Could the summer movie season have been any more disappointing? Aside from one stellar popcorn flick ("Mission: Impossible III") and occasional signs of life ("Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man," "Strangers with Candy"), nearly everything from "The Da Vinci...Tags: Pamela Anderson, Harry Potter (fictional character), George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Christian Bale
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Fox Hounds Anderson's 'Mr. Fox'
Zap2It.comWes Anderson's long-discussed adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic "Fantastic Mr. Fox" has found a fitting home at 20th Century Fox. Fox Animation will be entrusted with transferring Anderson and Noah Baumbach's script into a number of animation forms,...Tags: Fantastic Mr. Fox (movie), Roald Dahl, Animation (genre), Wes Anderson, Adrien Brody
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Movie review: 'The Conformist'
Check back Thursday afternoon for the review. Also: Our review of "North Country" and lots more Plus: Hear from Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman Latest reviews: "Domino," "Elizabethtown"Tags: Claire Danes
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11 buzz films
The world premiere of Ron Howard's shrouded-in-secrecy "The Da Vinci Code" has created something of a smokescreen effect at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which opens here Wednesday evening.
Usually in the days and hours leading up to the festival,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Paris (France), Paul Bettany, Dan Brown , Kris Kristofferson
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Fast-Paised review: 'Marie Antoinette'
Writer-director Sofia Coppola adapts Antonia Fraser's book about the 18th Century Viennese girl (Kirsten Dunst) who married Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) and eventually became the queen of France--to the dismay of the country. Much of the cast uses the...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Music Industry, Kirsten Dunst, Bow Wow, Rip Torn
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Movie review: 'Spun'
Special to the TribuneIt may not qualify as a comeback on the order of John Travolta's in "Pulp Fiction," but Mickey Rourke's turn as "The Cook" in the frenetic drug movie "Spun" is so surreal and sympathetic that it may make viewers forgive Rourke's long list of cinematic...Tags: Patrick Fugit, Eric Roberts, Greenwich Village, Minority Groups, Mena Suvari
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Sub pop
(Update: Thanks to everyone who helped make the "Wes Anderson rocks!" concert a huge success. Check out photos from the show.) Wes Anderson has the eclectic musical instincts of a seasoned record-store clerk. After all, who else would think of partially...Tags: Petroleum Industry, David Bowie, Wes Anderson, Music Industry, The Stooges (music group)
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'I [Heart] Huckabees'
![The love object in David O.Russell's "I [Heart] Huckabees" — or the "heart" object, anyway — is a mighty chain of superstores whose down-homeyness masks a rapacious imperialist streak. Huckabees builds where it wants to, when it wants to. This time it has its sights set on some marshland, which Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), the leader of a tiny nonprofit environmental coalition and pesky flea on the nape of the Huckabees corporation, is valiantly trying to save. Mostly through poetry.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-09/14468847.jpg "The love object in David O.Russell's \"I [Heart] Huckabees\" — or the \"heart\" object, anyway — is a mighty chain of superstores whose down-homeyness masks a rapacious imperialist streak. Huckabees builds where it wants to, when it wants to. This time it has its sights set on some marshland, which Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), the leader of a tiny nonprofit environmental coalition and pesky flea on the nape of the Huckabees corporation, is valiantly trying to save. Mostly through poetry.")
Times Staff WriterThe love object in David O.Russell's "I [Heart] Huckabees" — or the "heart" object, anyway — is a mighty chain of superstores whose down-homeyness masks a rapacious imperialist streak. Huckabees builds where it wants to, when it wants to. This...Tags: Crimes, AMC (tv network), Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Refugee
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Movie review: 'I ♥ Huckabees'
TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER3 stars (out of 4) David O. Russell's new film is a comedy "that's all about what it's all about." It's filled with characters who, desperate to feel deep, want answers to life's big questions. And watching it, you, also desperate to feel deep, will want...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Mystery (genre), Dustin Hoffman, Naomi Watts, Sex
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Movie review: 'Bewitched'
Tribune movie critic2 stars (out of four) Nicole Kidman's good luck with noses ("Hours"-wise) hasn't entirely vanished. As it turns out, she can crinkle her proboscis as adorably in the new movie "Bewitched" as Elizabeth Montgomery did in the 1960s TV series on which it's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Michael Caine, Nora Ephron, Elizabeth Montgomery, Cinema Industry
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