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UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV
The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...
Tags: Tony Awards, Festive Events, Rockefeller Center, Delbert Mann, Redman
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David Fincher, Cuba's female filmmakers among weekend highlights
Oscar-nominated director David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network") will have an extended conversation at Film Independent at LACMA's "An Evening with David Fincher" Thursday at the Loe S. Bing Theater. The program is to...
Tags: David Fincher, Kris Kristofferson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dean Martin, Redman
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Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped
I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Organized Crime, Kathryn Bigelow, Jamie Foxx
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A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence
Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...
Tags: Festive Events, Akira Kurosawa, Cultural Development, South Korea, Sweden
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Angus Scrimm, ‘Phantasm’s’ Tall Man, still a striking presence
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comAngus Scrimm always thought that he would be the star of “sophisticated, witty drawing-room comedies.” But instead of making people ...... -
Ernest Borgnine dies at 95; won Oscar for 'Marty,' showed comic side in sitcom
Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fatso" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who viciously beats a private to death in the 1953 movie "From Here to Eternity." But two years later came the title role...
Tags: Ernest Borgnine, Hedda Hopper, Tim Conway, Bette Davis, Film Festivals
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PASSINGS: R.G. Armstrong, Norman Alden, Ted Hinshaw, Neil Reed
R.G. Armstrong Actor a favorite of Peckinpah R.G. Armstrong, 95, a veteran character actor who started his career in the 1950s on Broadway, segued to television, then solidified his standing as a favorite of filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Warren Beatty,...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Fedders Corporation, Warren Beatty, Sports, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Are rednecks in 'Straw Dogs' an insult to Mississippi?
The Big PictureRod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" draws ire from conservatives who take issue with its depiction of Mississippi.... -
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It's still music to Dan Wallin's ears
Just before noon on a clear fall day, the Newman stage on the 20th Century Fox lot is alive with bright lights, hovering microphones and a full 105-piece orchestra. It's one of the final scoring sessions for "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,"...Tags: Gaming, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Music, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Pixar Animation
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Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week
24 FramesWith Gary Oldman getting strong reviews and Oscar buzz for his performance as spy George Smiley in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, the Arclight in Hollywood is offering a six-film retrospective of the British actor’s career beginning... -
Around Town: Steve McQueen, the King of Cool, rides again
24 FramesA tribute to King of Cool action star Steve McQueen and a look inside the film projectionist's world sponsored by the Motion Picture Academy are among this week's highlights....
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