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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: Abbas Kiarostami, Movies, Film Festivals, Berlin International Film Festival, Iran
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Oscars 2013: Telluride festival emerges as best picture predictor
Oscar pundits love to debate the best forecaster of the Academy Awards. Is it the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild ensemble trophy or some obscure film critics organization? Here's a new theory: the Telluride Film Festival. If "Argo" takes home...
Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Labor Day, Academy Awards, The King's Speech (movie), Culture
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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: Nanni Moretti, Vatican City, Religion and Belief, Christianity, We Have a Pope (movie)
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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: Sex and the City (movie), Terrence Malick, Golden Globe Awards, Isabelle Huppert, Movies
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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: Mark Johnson, Austria, A Royal Affair (movie), Arts and Culture, The Deep (movie)
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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: Superman (fictional character), Leo McCarey, Comedy (genre), Leslie Caron, Arts and Culture
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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: John Cusack, Celebrities, Clive Owen, Ernest Hemingway, Zac Efron
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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: The White Ribbon (movie), Celebrities, Georges Franju, Drama (genre), Arts and Culture
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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: Arts and Culture, The Impossible (movie), Javier Bardem, Ewan McGregor, Biutiful (movie)
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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: Austria, Academy Awards, A Royal Affair (movie), Chile, The Deep (movie)
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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: John Cusack, Celebrities, Academy Awards, Clive Owen, Zac Efron
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Marilyn Monroe's eternal beauty
Los Angeles TimesMarilyn Monroe certainly achieved fame in the course of her 36-year lifetime, but in the five decades since her death, she's become such a celebrity-branding superstar, it often feels as if America's proto-platinum pinup never really left the building...Tags: Biography (genre), Cinderella (fictional character), Anna Nicole Smith, Mad Men (tv program), Fashion Shows
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