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Michael Moore logs a first at Writers Guild
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMichael Moore said he was "stunned and honored" Feb. 6 when he learned his documentary "Bowling for Columbine" earned him a best-original-screenplay nomination for the 55th annual Writers Guild of America Awards. It is the first time in WGA history...Tags: Theft, Bill Condon, Charlie Kaufman, Career and Workplace, Hotels and Accommodations
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'Pianist' sweeps National Film Critics awards
By Michael Wilmington Tribune movie critic Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," an emotionally devastating portrait of Polish life during the Holocaust, was the big winner at the 37th annual award vote meeting of The National Society of Film Critics,...Tags: Chris Cooper, Isabelle Huppert, Diane Lane, Julianne Moore, Christopher Walken
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Movie review, 'The Pianist'
"The Pianist" is the film Roman Polanski may have been born to make: a great movie on a powerful, essential subject--the Holocaust years in Poland--directed with such artistry and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of the screen seem to melt away....Tags: Roman Polanski, Nazi Party, Politics, Adrien Brody, Massacres
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2003 Oscar nominees
Click on the links below for movie reviews and local theater information. 2003 winners are in bold. BEST PICTURE "Gangs of New York" "The Hours" "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" "The Pianist" "Chicago" BEST DIRECTOR Stephen Daldry,...Tags: Chris Cooper, Kathy Bates, Chris Weitz, Diane Lane, Bill Condon
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All that gold
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Sep 26, 2004 |Story| Chicago TribuneSteppenwolf's 'The Dresser' goes backstage
Tribune theater criticThere is dramatization and then there is self-dramatization. If a playwright wants both, a playwright writes a play about actors. Here's another one: If Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member John Mahoney wants to play the role of Sir in Ronald...Tags: Steppenwolf Theatre, Michael Phillips, John Mahoney, Albert Finney, England
Oct 28, 2004 |Story| MetromixMovie review: 'Being Julia'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3½ stars (out of 4) Annette Bening plays Julia Lambert, an aging grand diva of the '30s London stage, in Istvan Szabo's "Being Julia." And though you may be surprised at the casting, the American actress has a lot of elegant, witchy fun with the part. So...Tags: Theater, Juliet Stevenson, Jeremy Irons, Vivien Leigh, Ernst Lubitsch
Dec 12, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times'The Statement'
Times Staff WriterOn paper, "The Statement" sounds as if it couldn't help but be of interest. Its stars are Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Northam. Its director is the veteran Norman Jewison. And its script, by "The Pianist's" Oscar-winning Ronald Harwood, is...Tags: Alan Bates, Norman Jewison, Nazi Party, Charlotte Rampling, French Literature
Oct 8, 2004 |Story| Chicago TribuneRonald Harwood goes Hollywood
Ronald Harwood has been a part of the British theater for more than 50 years, so he has the inevitable story involving a foot, a mouth and John Gielgud. "I had just finished writing `The Dresser,'" the 69-year-old Harwood says down the telephone from...Tags: Roman Polanski, Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, Julian Glover, John Mahoney
Oct 15, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times'Being Julia'
Times Staff WriterIn the scintillating "Being Julia," Annette Bening had to have thought a lot about being Annette, for she is playing a woman who, like herself, is a star actress, wife and mother. Bening's glorious Julia Lambert is the toast of London's West End and the...Tags: Juliet Stevenson, Jeremy Irons, Career and Workplace, Sony Corp., Michael Gambon
Oct 16, 2003 |Story| MetromixMovie review: 'Taking Sides'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 1/2 stars (out of 4) Istvan Szabo's "Taking Sides" is a rarity - an intelligent and moving drama of ideas that becomes increasingly thrilling as the ideas unfold. It's an exceptional, fact-based movie about a brilliant man brought low: the great...Tags: Nazi Party, Harvey Keitel, Germany, Edward G. Robinson, Entertainment
Sep 19, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times'Taking Sides'
Times Staff WriterIn compelling, suspenseful fashion, "Taking Sides" illuminates brilliantly the dilemma of a great, world-renowned artist flourishing in a totalitarian regime. The artist in question was Wilhelm Furtwängler, the greatest conductor in Germany of his time &#...Tags: Academy Awards, Stellan Skarsgard, Nazi Party, Harvey Keitel, Wilhelm Furtwangler
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