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Coen brothers' loser is winning over Cannes
CANNES, France — Whatever its commercial fortunes when it opens in the U.S. this December, "Inside Llewyn Davis" already has won the acclaim sought so ardently by the fictional folk singer of its title, the latest charismatic loser in a long,...
Tags: Oscar Isaac, A Serious Man (movie), Human Interest, Amour (movie), Music
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Cannes Film Festival preview: Time to get off the beach
Brigitte Bardot in a bikini on a French Riviera beach in the early 1950s. Quick — name a single photograph in existence that reminds you less of "The Tree of Life," last year's top prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival. The only movie in...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Midnight in Paris (movie), Clint Eastwood, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Festive Events
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'Le Grand Amour': Cinematic inspiration from a Tati associate ★★ 1/2
The more lasting achievements of French director and star Pierre Etaix arrive this month, as part of the Siskel Film Center's Nov. 4-21 retrospective titled "Pierre Etaix: The Lost Laugh." But the 1969 Etaix film "Le Grand Amour," playing this week...
Tags: Amour (movie)
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Uggie still riding high on his well-earned fame as top dog in "The Artist"
My Pet WorldIf movie fans could vote on the Oscar for Best Actor, in 2011 it might have gone to one very funny master of improvisational acting. But fans can't weigh in, and Jean Dujardin, star of The Artist," took home the statuette. No offense to the French actor,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Correspondents (music group), Artists, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Water for Elephants (movie)
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History of the movies journey worth taking
In recent weeks the nervous future of the movies, as a business and as an occasional, accidental art form, has been subjected to unusually heavy scrutiny and speculation online and in print. This comes after an Oscar-sanctified movie year in which...Tags: Music Box Theatre, Saving Private Ryan (movie), Douglas Fairbanks, The Story of Film: An Odyssey (movie), Music
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'Blancanieves': Grimm tale, rendered silently, beautifully ★★★ 1/2
From Spain, here's a miracle of fairy tale repurposing: a version of the Brothers Grimm's "Snow White," set in Spanish bullfighting country in the late 1920s. Writer-director Pablo Berger's "Blancanieves" goes all the way with its concept, and then...
Tags: Bullfighting, Arts and Culture, Sports, Movies, Artists
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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Polio, Awards and Prizes, TNT (tv network), Academy Awards, Irving Berlin
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'Footnote' mines scholarly intrigue ✭✭✭ 1/2
A terrific deadpan chronicle of father and son Talmudic scholars beset by an escalating bureaucratic screw-up, Joseph Cedar's" Footnote" sets the tone for the battles to come in its opening sequence.
The son, a well-liked backslapper by the name of Uriel...Tags: A Serious Man (movie), Footnote (movie), Religion and Belief, Drama (genre), Ethan Coen
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Oscar nominations a blast from the past
John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...Tags: The Help (movie), Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Williams, Concerts, The Descendants (movie)
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'The Artist' is artful in the way it wins you over -- 3 1/2 stars
Please be silent behind the screen.
Backstage at the 1927 Hollywood premiere of his latest screen triumph, film star George Valentin — played with irresistible zest by Jean Dujardin — waits for the crowd's response. Standing in front of...Tags: Gene Kelly, Frank Borzage, Vertigo (movie), James Cromwell, Cannes Film Festival
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Pretty, manipulative 'War Horse' sort of works -- 2 1/2 stars
On stage in London and New York, "War Horse" has found a wide and emotionally drained audience. How could it be otherwise? The horrors of World War I plus the horrors of war as endured by a horse, capped by a ruthlessly effective happy ending: I don't...Tags: London (England), Theater, Richard Curtis, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Janusz Kaminski
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'The Artist' review: Wonderful silent film says in with the old
***1/2 (out of four)
At one point in the joyous French silent film “The Artist,” former American silent movie star George Valentin (Cannes best actor winner Jean Dujardin) receives a compliment that kills him: “My father is a big fan.&...Tags: Gene Kelly, Penelope Ann Miller, Arts and Culture, John Goodman, Movies
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