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Retire? Not 'Amour's' two eightysomething stars
PARIS — Up four old, crooked flights of stairs in her apartment building with no elevator, Emmanuelle Riva sits wrapped in a thick, woven, poncho-like sweater. Warm light streams through colorful windowpanes into her narrow living room, where Riva...
Tags: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Deneuve, France, Cannes Film Festival, Paris (France)
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Emmanuelle Riva on states of being and 'Amour'
With her searing portrayal of Anne, a former music teacher who must confront her mortality in painful increments in director Michael Haneke's bracingly unsentimental "Amour," 84-year-old Emmanuelle Riva has wowed critics. The idea of tackling such...
Tags: Movies, France, Amour (movie), Michael Haneke, Entertainment
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Director's colors come out mixed
”Three Colors: Blue, White, Red” (Criterion Collection, Blu-ray, 3 discs, $79.95; DVD, 4 discs, $59.95) Following the international success of his extraordinary “Double Life of Veronique” (also available on Blu-ray and DVD from...Tags: Julie Delpy, Irene Jacob, Juliette Binoche, Documentary (genre), Blu-ray Discs
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Movie review: 'The Ten'
Special to the Tribune1½ stars (out of four) Comedians David Wain and Ken Marino loosely based their sketch-comedy film "The Ten" on Krzysztof Kieslowski's "The Decalogue," which explains why the two projects are so much alike: a series of brief stories illustrating the place...Tags: Winona Ryder, Death, Comedy (genre), Liev Schreiber, Social Issues
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Movie review: Autumn'
Tribune movie critic2 stars (out of four) Made by the fledgling American director Ra'up McGee, "Autumn" exists in a high-toned, noir-besotted realm of French hit men who speak softly and cook the perfect omelet before ordering up heinous acts of violence. The killer in...Tags: Irene Jacob, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Michael Phillips
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Spike Lee, Akira Kurosawa, Paul McCartney, Bernard Herrmann, Italy
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Made by which nation?
Times Staff WriterThe starring actress is Australian. The script was written by a Pole. Hollywood money financed the production, and Italy provides the backdrop for a German director's newest film. "Heaven," starring Cate Blanchett and produced by Miramax, opened this...Tags: Television, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), Documentary (genre), France, Germany
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'A Matter of Taste'
Times Film CriticDifficult to describe, not easily forgotten, "A Matter of Taste" lingers long after higher-profile films have come and gone. An elegant study of devious mind games and emotional perversion, it makes the strangest of psychological dynamics plausible and...Tags: Movies, Howard Hughes, Entertainment, Academy Awards
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'Black Hawk Down'
Times Film Critic"Black Hawk Down" is more than simply, as the opening title says, "Based on an Actual Event." As much as a movie ever has, it puts you completely inside that event, brilliantly taking you where most people, even those who were actually there, wouldn't...Tags: Ewan McGregor, Death, Jerry Bruckheimer , Disasters and Accidents, U.S. Military
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Fall Films: The Devil And Mr. Godard
The Hartford CourantFilm fans, prepare for a busy, gratifying fall. In addition to the spate of remakes, sequels and prequels at the cineplex, the art-house calendar might as well be wrapped in a celluloid ribbon. Dates have yet to be finalized in most cases, but there are...Tags: Brooke Adams, Documentary (genre), Emil Jannings, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts
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Next Stop Wonderland
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 21, 1998 "Next Stop Wonderland" is a romance, but not just any romance. Smart and beguiling, it manages the impressive feat of believing wholeheartedly in the power of love without checking its mind at the door. Discriminating...Tags: Miramax Films, Death, Hope Davis, Victor Argo, Antonio Carlos Jobim
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Eureka
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 4, 2001 Time is the ultimate critic, but there's every reason to predict that Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka" will become one of the landmarks of the world cinema of the first decade of the 21st century. It has a daunting three-hour, 40-minute...Tags: Movies, Weather, Weather Reports, Death, Transportation
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