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The Claim
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 29, 2000 To watch Michael Winterbottom's audacious "The Claim" is to wish Cecil B. DeMille had the idea first of transposing Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" to Northern California two decades after the discovery of gold in...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Union Pacific Corporation, Sarah Polley, Lifestyle and Leisure, Movies
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Pressing business
CMBWhy do the movies, old and new, have such a continuing fascination for newspaper offices? For wisecracking reporters, tantrum-throwing editors and the race to beat the last deadline? Ever since movies started to talk in the 1920s, newspapers have been a...Tags: John Doe, Celebrities, Oliver Stone, Chicago Tribune, Structural Failures
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'Code 46'
Times Staff WriterWhen you attempt a romance set in the future, as director Michael Winterbottom and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce have done in "Code 46," the degree of difficulty is doubled. Your film has to convincingly evoke the future as well as make an emotional...Tags: Entertainment, Drama (genre), Tim Robbins, BBC, Movies
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Movie review: 'Code 46'
Tribune Staff Reporter2 stars (out of 4) Michael Winterbottom has never been one for lateral story lines and explanatory voiceovers. But his latest film, a near future sci-fi love story called "Code 46," is too ambiguous, too meandering to envelop us. It's ambitious work but...Tags: Entertainment, Sex Pistols (music group), Crimes, Robert Altman, Cinema Industry
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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: Hugh Grant, Alexa Vega, Sam Mendes, Jennifer Aniston, Television Industry
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Winter wrap party
Here's an advance look at most of the movie releases through the end of the year. Due to last-minute juggling by the studios, some opening dates may change. Dec. 20 - "Thirteen Days" Drama, New Line With: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp....Tags: Julian Sands, Ned Beatty, Literature, Jeremy Piven, Celebrities
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'24 Hour Party People'
Times Staff WriterTony Wilson, a young Cambridge-educated Manchester TV personality, was among the 42 people in the city's Lesser Free Trade Hall for a June 4, 1976, performance of the already notorious Sex Pistols. It was an electrifying experience for the prescient...Tags: Paddy Considine, Jim Jarmusch, Sex Pistols (music group), Bars and Clubs, Drugs and Medicines
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Movie review, '24 Hour Party People'
Making a good rock 'n' roll movie must be harder than it seems, because there are so few of them -- even though it's been nearly four decades since Dick Lester and The Beatles seemed to blow out the cobwebs and cliches from the movie-musical form in their...Tags: Paddy Considine, Jim Jarmusch, Sex Pistols (music group), Career and Workplace, Farms
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Snowball effect in Park City
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's big and it's getting bigger. It's powerful and it's looking to expand its reach. The Sundance Film Festival has been accused of many things, but resting comfortably on its accomplishments is not one of them. With the latest edition of this...Tags: Rip Torn, Drama (genre), Celebrities, Movies, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Movie review: 'It's All Gone Pete Tong'
Tribune staff reporter3 stars (out of 4) Cocaine addiction for superstar deejay Frankie Wilde takes the shape of a giant, nasty-looking muskrat-type thing. It's his drug mascot, a coke-encrusted fiend that beats Frankie into submission whenever he attempts to kick the habit....Tags: Entertainment, Casey Kasem, Disc Jockeys, John Malkovich, Drugs and Medicines
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Movie review: 'In This World'
Tribune staff reporter4 stars (out of 4) The first minutes of Michael Winterbottom's breathtaking refugee story "In This World" show a jumbled, chaotic series of events in a Pakistani shuk (market), where we're not sure who, or what, to focus on. This, I can say from...Tags: Entertainment, Politics, Pakistan, Mountains, Migration
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Fall back into your seats
Tribune Staff ReportersNow that the summer of sequels finally has ended, Hollywood has a message for adults: It's safe to get back in the theaters again. The fall always looks great from a Labor Day perspective as the studios and indie distributors prepare to unveil their...Tags: Jason Patric, Crossing Over (movie), Hugh Grant, Action (genre), Liam Neeson
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