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'Man on Wire'--4 stars (excellent): Long-ago prank now a homage
Tribune criticOn a misty day in August 1974, 1,350 feet above the Manhattan streets, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes gliding back and forth between the south and the north towers of the World Trade Center, eight crossings in all. " Man on Wire"...Tags: Sex, Simon Chinn, Igor (movie), Documentary (genre), Crime, Law and Justice
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Movie review: The Libertine'
Tribune movie critic2½ stars (out of four) "Do you like me now?" Johnny Depp asks at the end of "The Libertine"--playing the title role of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, famed Restoration rake and wit. It's a cruel, mocking question in an intermittently fascinating,...Tags: John Malkovich, Movies, Entertainment, Johnny Depp, Crimes
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'4'
Special to The TimesIf your art film tastes lean toward orderliness and tidy metaphors, you could spend the two hours of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky's fearless and mesmerizing debut feature, "4," cataloging foursomes. There are the four whimpering dogs on a rainy...Tags: Dog (animal), Movies, Entertainment, Igor (movie), Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Movie review: Who Gets to Call It Art?'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) If someone ever turns Peter Rosen's documentary "Who Gets to Call It Art?" into a dramatic feature, Paul Giamatti might be the logical pick among current actors to play main subject Henry Geldzahler (1935-94), the gay, moon-faced,...Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Documentary (genre), Paul Giamatti, Culture, Arts
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Death and the Compass
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 11, 1997 "Death and the Compass" is but the latest in a long line of deliberately obscure fables of power and corruption set in a totalitarian future filmed amid settings of architectural grandeur and populated with bizarre, decadent...Tags: Peter Boyle, Death, BBC, Jorge Luis Borges, Mexico
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Agnes Browne
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday December 3, 1999 If Cinderella lived in Dublin, reared seven children and found her Prince Charming in the guise of a doughy French baker, she might resemble Agnes Browne. There is a lovely Cinderella moment in "Agnes Browne,"...Tags: Pam Grier, Cinderella (fictional character), Movies, Harvey Keitel, Entertainment
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Titus
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 24, 1999 "Titus" is more travesty than tragedy, a dynamic film from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" directed with unflagging energy by Julie Taymor, who brought "The Lion King" to Broadway with much acclaim. But Taymor, who also won...Tags: Assault, Anthony Hopkins, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Goth (genre), Julie Taymor
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8 1/2 Women
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 26, 2000 Peter Greenaway's "8 1/2 Women" is a nod to Fellini--and that "half" turns out to be a typically dark Greenaway twist. No artistic temperaments could be more different than those of Greenaway and Fellini. Greenaway is the...Tags: Lucian Freud, Music Theater, Movies, Entertainment, Opera (genre)
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Humanities Festival: Tribune critics provide a road map
Tribune criticsTo help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": Chicago premiere of British composer Thomas Ades' widely praised opera, "Powder Her Face," based on the...Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Cinema Industry, Wallace Stevens, Chicago Humanities Festival, Culture
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