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Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan
Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...
Tags: Authors, Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed, Literature, Princeton University
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Toronto Film Festival to open with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Looper'
The Toronto International Film Festival has chosen "Looper," director Rian Johnson's "thinking-man actioner" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, to open its 10-day event starting Sept. 6. The film stars Gordon-Levitt as a time-traveling...
Tags: Neil Jordan, Billy Connolly, Romance (genre), Olga Kurylenko, Marion Cotillard
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Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, others headline Toronto documentary lineup
Ken Burns, Alex Gibney and Julien Temple headline the Toronto International Film Festival's documentary lineup this year, a program that also features work by Marina Zenovich and Matthew Cooke. Fans of nonfiction film can take in movies on everything...
Tags: Rob Zombie, Christianity, Barry Levinson, U.S. Military, Woody Harrelson
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Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair bring Indian voices to Toronto film fest
Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair first met in a swimming pool in Amritsar, India, when they were children, not knowing at the time that they would become two of India's most influential filmmakers. Now the two women, who are eight years apart, will be coming to...
Tags: Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed, Venice International Film Festival, Literature, Thriller (genre)
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Indian Film Festival highlights emerging directors
24 FramesIn India’s long fight for independence, the first defeat of the British came not at the hands of soldiers but those of untrained teenagers, led by a schoolteacher, in 1930. This piece of history is the subject of “Chittagong,” the... -
Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Crazies' on Starz
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 31 - Nov. 6 in PDF format Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here This week's TV Movies âTHE CRAZIES': Timothy Olyphant plays a small-town sheriff with a...... -
The Sunday Conversation: Ewan McGregor: roles with controversy
Ewan McGregor's next films are surrounded by controversy. There's Roman Polanski's unfinished film "The Ghost," a thinly veiled indictment of Tony Blair. The satirical "The Men Who Stare at Goats," also featuring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges, alleges...Tags: Tony Blair, Amelia (movie), Celebrities, U.S. Military, Television Industry
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Movie release dates: What's ahead on the Oscars derby track?
Gold DerbyOCTOBER 16 "Where the Wild Things Are" ??? Director Spike Jonze's adaptation of the classic children's book by Maurice Sendak could be a strong contender in the crafts categories. Stars include past Oscars champ Forest Whitaker plus Catherine Keener.... -
Fox Searchlight's 'Amelia': How did it make it onto the runway?
The Big PictureI know that all of America was queasily captivated last week by the bizarre "is it real or isn't it" Balloon Boy escapade. But here in Hollywood, heads are scratching over an equally puzzling mystery: How did Fox Searchlight, which...... -
First look: 'Saw VI' is slashed by 'Paranormal' while 'Cirque du Freak,' 'Astro Boy,' 'Amelia' flop
Company TownIt was a gory weekend at the box office for pretty much every movie except 'Paranormal Activity.' Paramount Pictures' ultra-low-budget horror film more than doubled its nationwide theater count to 1,945 theaters and continues its winning ways, selling a... -
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Jessica Gelt is an assistant style editor at West.Jacinda Barrett is 5 feet, 10 inches in her stocking feet. She has a teal-colored tattoo on the inside of her right ankle and her face—girlish and soft on film—is carved and somewhat angular in person. Although her chocolate-brown eyes...Tags: Fashion Shows, Zach Braff, Awards and Prizes, Career and Workplace, Celebrities
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Hey, that ad-lib wasn't in the script!
Special to The TimesEverett Hitch and Virgil Cole had been riding all day, chasing bad guys across the chaparral in the western "Appaloosa." As actors Viggo Mortensen (who was playing Hitch) and Ed Harris (Cole) sat around a campfire filming a scene on the Galisteo, N.M.,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Celebrities, Daniel Craig, Viggo Mortensen, The Da Vinci Code (movie)
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