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Altman, Pacino and Hope and Crosby among weekend highlights
An early film by Robert Atman, a sneak preview of Al Pacino as Phil Spector and a Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" picture double bill are among the highlights this weekend. The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation offers a rare...
Tags: Malcolm McDowell, Billy Wilder, Ceremonies, Sandy Dennis, Bing Crosby
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In search of 'The Searchers' and the history behind the western
The bigger the fight between a screenwriter and a director, the better the picture. It's an arrant generalization but not necessarily an errant one. Look at Budd Schulberg's battles with "On the Waterfront," or Robert Towne's over the ending of...
Tags: Reviews, John Wayne, On the Waterfront (movie), The Washington Post, Robert Towne
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Oscars 2013: Get your play-at-home ballot here
Looking for an Oscars 2013 play-at-home ballot? Look no further — you've found a shareable version, packed with additional info about who and what you'll be voting on. Click here to get the ballot, explore a bit before you mark your choices and...
Tags: Celebrities, Daniel Day-Lewis, Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Ben Affleck
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Oscars 2013: Follow the Academy Awards live on Twitter
The 85th Academy Awards are hours away, but social media is abuzz with winner projections, potential Oscar snubs and fashion faux pas. For film buffs and casual onlookers following the awards on a second screen, you can get access from the scene on...
Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Entertainment Events, Voting, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Les Miserables (musical)
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Oscars 2013: Watch live video coverage Sunday — but first, catch up
The 85th Academy Awards are getting closer, and the big question on Oscar watchers' minds is whether "Argo" will sweep this awards season, capping off its run with a best picture win for Ben Affleck's drama about the Iranian hostage crisis. But there'...
Tags: Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Ang Lee, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment
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Sundance 2013: David Gordon Green, back after 'Pineapple Express'
PARK CITY, Utah — “It’s been awhile,” director David Gordon Green said as we shook hands on Sunday. Indeed it had. It was, in fact, 10 years almost to the day since I’d interviewed Green at the Sundance Film Festival, and...
Tags: Paul Rudd, Entertainment Events, Explosions in the Sky (music group), Judd Apatow, Sony Corp.
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Theater review: ' 'Tis Pity' still shocks after nearly 400 years
Before Quentin Tarantino, Martin McDonagh and all the other sadistic bad boys of film and theater, there was the 17th century dramatist John Ford testing his audience's tolerance for perverse blood sport. In his most popular play, " 'Tis Pity She's a...
Tags: Quentin Tarantino
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South Africa's Western Cape: Savoring the bounty
— One night as my sister and I walked across the rugged yet strangely delicate terrain of a place called Farm 215, the path to our cottage lighted only by the stars and a flashlight, the wine-wobbly beam suddenly illuminated several sets of legs....
Tags: Travel, Africa, Bodies of Water, Oceans, South Africa
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Kathryn Bigelow and Oliver Stone: What do they have in common?
The Academy Awards are still two months away, but the surge of critical support for Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” is raising a provocative question: How many filmmakers have won two best director Oscars within just a few years?...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, The Hurt Locker (movie), Academy Awards, Entertainment Events
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Oscar nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads field; surprises, snubs seen
Only in Hollywood could a tiny, low-budget tale of a little girl named Hushpuppy who lives in the bayou take on a historical epic by master filmmaker Steven Spielberg about the 16th president’s struggle to end slavery and the Civil War. But...
Tags: Robert De Niro, Frank Capra Jr., Emma Stone, Ceremonies, Entertainment Events
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Movie books go between the covers with Hollywood's elite
Are you a film buff who received a holiday gift certificate for books? Not to worry. Here's a post-Christmas guide to three books about legendary cinema stars, and a fourth about some of Hollywood's bit players. "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies":...
Tags: John Wayne, Entertainment Events, Ron Howard, Drew Barrymore, Entertainment
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Review: Timothy Egan's insightful 'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher'
-------------------- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 384 pp., $28 -------------------- Edward Curtis was given many names by the native peoples he...
Tags: Photography, Ansel Adams, Arts, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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