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Film industry struggles to find its role in wartime
Chicago Tribune national correspondentsThe people who tell the stories don't know what to say, at least not yet. Screenwriters, directors and producers say they feel it is far too early to understand how movies and television will deal with the events of Sept. 11 and the altered world that...Tags: Lionel Chetwynd, Government, White House, FBI, Terrorism
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The worst of the worst
"SUPERSTAR" Are you charmed and amused by a 35-year-old actress (Molly Shannon, right) pretending to be a hostile Catholic high school girl whose most distinctive characteristic is sticking her hands under her armpits and sniffing them? Didn't think so....Tags: IMAX, Bars and Clubs, The Brady Bunch (tv program), Social Issues, Air Transportation Industry
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'Iris'
TIMES FILM CRITIC"They were like two halves of an apple." That's how actress Judi Dench describes the relationship between novelist Iris Murdoch and critic John Bayley detailed in "Iris," but that pithy characterization also explains why this intelligent, poignant film is...Tags: Fiction, Kate Winslet, Celebrities, Anthony Minghella, Jim Broadbent
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Fall spotlight on movies
- denotes a movie to watch. "Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski). More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. The director is Spielberg's cinematographer and a local Columbia...Tags: Michael Caine, Wes Craven, Vincent Price, Geoffrey Rush, Frank Darabont
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American Film Institute's Tribute to Barbra Streisand
Tribune Staff WriterHOLLYWOOD As strange as it may sound, to anyone who wasn't at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Thursday night, it was entirely fitting that veteran comedian Phyllis Diller opened for Barbra Streisand. After all, well before Streisand who was being honored...Tags: Kris Kristofferson, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Elections, Music Theater
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It's all about sex
Without much apparent fuss, one of the last great movie taboos is being tossed to the winds. Recently, in film after film from France and Scandinavia, the boundaries between hard-core pornography and regular art-house movie fare have been all but erased....Tags: Vincent Gallo, Pornography, Dancing, Chicago International Film Festival, Dance
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Top winners from 1985
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Harrison Ford as John Book in WITNESS An Edward S. Feldman Production; Paramount James Garner as Murphy Jones in MURPHY'S ROMANCE Fogwood Films Production; Columbia William Hurt as Luis Molina in...Tags: Steven Spielberg, William Hickey, Social Issues, James Garner, Meg Tilly
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Top winners from 1982
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in TOOTSIE Mirage/Punch Production; Columbia Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in GANDHI Indo-British Film Production; Columbia Jack Lemmon as...Tags: Paul Newman, Louis Gossett Jr., Debra Winger, Steven Spielberg, Charles Durning
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5 films starring Robert Redford
1. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (George Roy Hill; 1969) 3 1/2 stars One western that nearly everyone likes is this affable, picaresque, elegiac tale of two charming outlaws on the run: Paul Newman's feisty Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford's...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Newman, Karen Black, Central Intelligence Agency, Chicago Tribune
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Movie review, 'Changing Lanes'
Racing along FDR Drive one rainy Good Friday morning, two New York City drivers - slick attorney Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) and nervous AA recoveree Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) - smash into each other while dueling for the same lane. Both are due...Tags: Lawyers, Chicago Tribune, Samuel L. Jackson, Crime, Law and Justice, William Hurt
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'A Decade Under the Influence'
Times Staff WriterThroughout Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme's stirring survey of American movies of the '70s, "A Decade Under the Influence," filmmakers and stars remark how their movies couldn't have been made in an earlier era. Some add wistfully that they...Tags: Documentary (genre), International Military Interventions, Easy Rider (movie), Sex, The Godfather (movie)
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Summer movies release schedule
The Associated PressRelease dates are tentative, and some films play in limited release. Late April: ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: The corporate train wreck unfolds through insider interviews and company video and audio tapes. THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: An outgunned...Tags: Michael Caine, Wes Craven, FBI, Will Ferrell, Jackie Gleason
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