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PASSINGS: Theo Angelopoulos, Wesley Brown
Theo Angelopoulos
Award-winning Greek filmmaker
Theo Angelopoulos, 76, an award-winning Greek filmmaker known for his slow and dreamlike style as a director, was killed in a road accident Tuesday in Athens.
Police and hospital officials said...Tags: Lawyers, Head Injuries, Justice System, Judges, Movies
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IRAN: Foreign artists, local cinematic heavyweights shun Tehran film festival
Babylon & BeyondAs Iran kicked off its biggest cinematic and cultural event of the year today, a glaring number of politically motivated no-shows became evident. Famed British film director Ken Loach (pictured) and theater director Peter Brook, also from the U.K., were..... -
Italo screenwriter Tonino Guerra dies
VarietyProlific Italian screenwriter and poet Tonino Guerra, who was nominated for three Oscars and worked with many top Italian and international film directors, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theo Angelopoulos, died...Tags: Film Festivals, Jean Renoir, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment Events, Lucky Luciano
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'What is this thing called Cannes?'
What is this thing called Cannes?
Grueling, crowded, complicated, unforgiving, it's been likened by a survivor to "a fight in a brothel during a fire." A place where reputations are made and hearts are broken, fascinating and frustrating in equal parts,...Tags: Gary Cooper, Jean Renoir, Sylvester Stallone, Auction Service, News Media
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Movie review: 'Last Days'
Tribune movie critic3˝ stars (out of four) When actor Michael Pitt comes wandering out of the woods in the opening scene of Gus Van Sant's new film, "Last Days," playing reclusive rock star Blake—a character who takes part of his bio from Seattle grunge legend Kurt Cobain—...Tags: Nirvana (music group), Drama (genre), Taiwan, Movies, Walt Whitman
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Mother and Son
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday February 20, 1998 It's a temptation to deal with Alexander Sokurov's magisterial and poetic new film "Mother and Son" by describing what it isn't. Absent from the screen are fast cutting, explosive action, glib dialogue and complex plotting....Tags: Movies, Documentary (genre), Andrei Tarkovsky, Death, Paul Schrader
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Ulysses' Gaze
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 21, 1997 The title of Theo Angelopoulos' monumental, magnificent "Ulysses' Gaze" refers to the master Greek filmmaker's longing for the innocent vision of the novice. This longing, in turn, gives way to his larger concern with the...Tags: Balkan Peninsula, Movies, Harvey Keitel, Canal+, Italy
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Eternity and a Day
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 28, 1999 Theo Angelopoulos' towering, elegiac "Eternity and a Day" takes its title from the hero's late wife's answer to his question, "How long is tomorrow?" Facing death himself from cancer, Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a middle-aged Greek...Tags: Movies, Bruno Ganz, Hospitals and Clinics, Happiness (state of mind), Poetry
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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: Danny Hoch, Bob Hoskins, Andy Griffith, Folklore and Mythology, Ben Affleck
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Michael Wilmington's top films of 1999
The end of a year is time for stock-taking. A decade calls for even more. And a century or a millennium? The sheer potential for memory or fact overload can be mind-boggling. So, what can we say about movies at the end of 1999? In the last century,...Tags: Belgium, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bob Hoskins, Jean Renoir, Denzel Washington
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Movie review, 'The Cherry Orchard'
The list of Greek directors with heavy international reputations is short. Apart from the highly respected Theo Angelopoulos, whose long but difficult films make him popular at festivals but over the head of average filmgoers, the only other name that...Tags: Movies, Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Alan Bates, Farms
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Jan 25, 2010
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Mar 21, 2012
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May 21, 2011
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May 10, 2005
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Aug 8, 2005
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Feb 19, 1998
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Mar 21, 1997
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May 27, 1999
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Sep 14, 1999
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Dec 27, 1999
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Apr 4, 2002
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