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Cannes film festival competition short on Oscar contenders
Gold DerbyOnly one American film -- "Fair Game" from Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity") -- numbers among the 16 entries in the official competition of this year's Cannes Film Festival. This politically charged biopic about real-life diplomat Joe Wilson and his... -
'Warren Oates: A Wild Life' by Susan Compo
Many a great film director is tethered artistically to a trusted actor: John Ford had the Duke, Fellini had Mastroianni and Scorsese had De Niro.
For Sam Peckinpah, the volatile maverick who reinvented the western as a hyperviolent, nihilistic...Tags: Jack Nicholson, Entertainment, Television, Peter Fonda, William Friedkin
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Hollywood's endangered entrepreneurs
THE BIG PICTUREIT'S hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner's Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he'd sold his company in...Tags: Pixar Animation, Ricky Gervais, CNN (tv network), Peter Jackson, Dr. Dre (music artist)
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The year in home entertainment
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn terms of home entertainment, viewers had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this year. Among 2007's best releases were restored old favorites and newly discovered rarities, television classics past and present, and at the top of the heap, the...Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Book, BBC, Sergei Eisenstein, Seinfeld (tv program)
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Will Spielberg take a walk on the wild side?
Special to The TimesSteven Spielberg, who at 22 was hired by Universal to a long-term contract, started out his career as the teacher's pet of the Movie Brat generation. With the unveiling of his first Indiana Jones escapade in 19 years today at Cannes, he's proffering yet...Tags: Indiana Jones (fictional character), Richard Dreyfuss, Frank Capra Jr., Anne Frank, Apocalypse Now (movie)
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Crossing borders with 'Sin Nombre'
In the shattered calm of the Mexican night, sitting atop a railroad tanker car, Cary Joji Fukunaga didn't yet know that a man was being murdered. But he'd heard the screams, gunshots and shouts in Spanish of "Bandits!" and he was bracing to make a run for...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Family, Illegal Immigrants, Entertainment
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David Gordon Green, mainstream director?
Special to The TimesAFTER years of cutting his teeth in independent film, David Gordon Green is one of the big boys now. The youthful 32-year-old writer and director, who still happens to wear braces, says he no longer gets carded at bars. But his newfound maturity pales...Tags: Seth Rogen, Cinema Industry, Dario Argento, Stewart O'Nan, Health
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'All the Living,' by C.E. Morgan
People Are Unappealing
True Stories of Our Collective
Capacity to Irritate and Annoy
Sara Barron
Three Rivers Press: 224 pp., $13.95 paper
These days, the market is pretty well saturated when it comes to memoir. Which means it has to be good; it...Tags: Death, Celebrities, Carson McCullers, Romance (genre), Family
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Salinger, Pynchon & Co.: When writers are recluses
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey wait like pilgrims, queuing silently, bearing volumes for inscription and awaiting a chance to touch the hem of his garment. They're not Franciscans approaching Assisi but earnest readers rushing bookstores and cultural temples for word -- wisdom,...Tags: Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, Greta Garbo, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon
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Led Zep's Plant Headed To Big Screen?
In a new interview with Idiewire.com, actor Ryan Gosling said he will soon share screen time with Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. Though few details are available, Gosling listed Plant,Patti Smith, Johnny Rotten and fellow actresses Cate Blanchett and...
Tags: Ryan Gosling, Patti Smith, Robert Plant, John Lydon, Natalie Portman
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Revolution on the screen, on the ground in 'I Am Cuba'
From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they do that? A three-story-high tracking shot...
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Orson Welles, Cuba, Gene Siskel, Sergei Eisenstein
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'To The Wonder' trailer: Terrence Malick tells tale of love with voice overs
Pop2it"You shall love whether you like it or not," Javier Bardem's character says in the preview's voice over. "Emotions they come and go like clouds. Love is not only a feeling, you show love."...
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