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Did 'We Have a Pope' foretell Pope Benedict's resignation?
As topics for fact-based movies go, you’d be hard-pressed to find one as tricky as the papal selection. The process is cloaked in secrecy, for starters, and it’s not like it happens much more than once a decade. Yet the news that Pope...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Nanni Moretti, Religion and Belief, Benedict XVI
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Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' hooks up with Magnolia Pictures
If there were some kind of cinematic mad lib invented for maximum potential art house outrage, Danish filmmaker/provocateur Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” -- with a cast including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, Festive Events
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Nagisa Oshima dies at 80; iconoclastic Japanese filmmaker
Nagisa Oshima, an iconoclastic Japanese director and screenwriter best known in the West for the sexually explicit films “In the Realm of the Senses” and “Empire of Passion,” died Tuesday at a hospital near Tokyo, his production...
Tags: Music Industry, Pneumonia, Entertainment, Movies, Jean-Luc Godard
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What's behind Jafar Panahi's 'Closed Curtain'?
 On Tuesday night at the Berlin Film Festival, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi will debut his new movie “Closed Curtain.” Panahi himself won’t be there to present it, of course; he remains under house arrest in Iran, and the premiere...
Tags: Berlin International Film Festival, Iran, Movies, Entertainment, Film Festivals
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Golden Globes 2013: Michael Haneke on his parody Twitter account
In what has been one of the strange joys of this awards season, a parody Twitter account attributed to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has become a treasure trove of comedy gold with its digs at Terrence Malick, pictures of cats and general sense of...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Michael Haneke, Terrence Malick
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Oscars 2013: 'Amour' in, 'Intouchables' out for foreign language
Academy voters showed their love for Austria's "Amour" on Thursday morning, with the deep and intimate look at an aging couple facing the end of life together being nominated not just for best foreign language film, but also for best picture and in...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment Events, Mark Johnson, Mads Mikkelsen, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
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Ring in the new year with classic comedies
The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...
Tags: Movies, George Cukor, Entertainment Events, It Happened One Night (movie), Superman (fictional character)
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Golden Globe nominations 2013: Nicole Kidman scores dual nods
Nicole Kidman scored a pair of Golden Globe nominations Thursday for two divergent performances that showcase the Oscar winner’s versatility and willingness to tackle challenging – even potentially degrading – roles in the name of drama....
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Viagra (drug), Celebrities
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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: Movies, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Marlon Brando, France
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Movie review: 'The Impossible' has the right touch with real horror
So terrifying is the 2004 tsunami as imagined in "The Impossible," its destructive force engulfing the screen with such violent menace, that the imagery alone elicits a rising dread so intense you may feel yourself gasping for breath. Spanish-born...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Christian Bale
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'Amour,' 'Intouchables' make academy's foreign language film shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday moved forward with nine potential nominated movies for the next round of voting in the foreign language film category for the 85th Academy Awards, narrowing the field from 71 qualifying films....
Tags: Academy Awards, Movies, Entertainment, Denmark, Entertainment Events
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'The Paperboy': Nicole Kidman is used to audience discomfort
Talk about a good week. On back-to-back days last week, Nicole Kidman received two nominations each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes. Both organizations cited her performance in the television movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn" opposite...
Tags: Academy Awards, The Paperboy (movie), Entertainment, Movies, Entertainment Events
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