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Movie review: The Producers'
Tribune arts critic1½ stars (out of four) Here's some grim news, especially if Mel Brooks holds a place in your personal ethos of funny and a mediocre movie musical is like a stake through your heart. "The Producers" on screen, as a musical, does not work. It is not very...Tags: Entertainment, Tony Awards, Mel Brooks, Nathan Lane, Will Ferrell
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A supreme season
Times Staff WriterFor the last few years, Hollywood has become littered with the carcasses of Broadway sensations that died on the big screen. Remember "Rent"? "Phantom of the Opera"? "The Producers"? Among the few exceptions are "Chicago" and now "Dreamgirls." The...Tags: Diana Ross, Jamie Foxx, Entertainment, Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Kim Novak, Stanley Donen, Graham Greene, Howard Hawks, Martin Scorsese
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Movie review, '8 Women'
Special to the TribuneLike his colleague Pedro Almodovar, French director Francois Ozon is praised for his passion for women - for actresses, more specifically - as much as he is praised for the surreal, Day-Glo worlds he creates. Like much of Almodovar's work, Ozon's "8...Tags: Catherine Deneuve, Francois Truffaut, Douglas Sirk, Entertainment, Pedro Almodovar
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'La Petite Lili'
Times Staff WriterClaude Miller's "La Petite Lili," an adroit exploration of love and ambition, life and art, may be based on Chekhov's "The Seagull," but with its coda set five years in the future, it ends up seeming lots more like Vincente Minnelli's classic 1952 take on...Tags: France, Cinema Industry, Entertainment, Lana Turner, Arvo Part
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Roja
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 24, 1998 Mani Rathnam's sweeping, poignant "Roja" revitalizes the mainstream commercial Indian movie in ways unexpected. Indian audiences expect lots of escapism from their pictures, which generally means interminable genre...Tags: Entertainment, Juvenile Delinquency, India, Shirley MacLaine, Bob Fosse
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Movie review: 'American Wedding'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic1 1/2 stars (out of 4) Movie success often breeds complacency, big bucks often foster laziness, and "American Wedding" proves both. It's one more slice of raunchy comedy from the "American Pie" franchise, this time bringing back most of the male...Tags: Entertainment, Comedy (genre), Philosophy, Chris Klein, Chicago Tribune
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Comfort in crisis
Tribune Movie CriticIn times of war and trial, America has found relief and solace at the movies. They've rallied us, eased our fears, attacked our enemies, soothed our worries and, most of all, raised our spirits. No doubt they will again, even in the aftermath of last...Tags: Howard Hawks, Elliott Gould, Donald Crisp, Mary Pickford, Trips and Vacations
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'Movies About Movies: A Look Back in Angles'
LMPWhile most banks supply their customers with free checking, drive-thru services or the occasional toaster oven, for the past 27 years LaSalle Bank at Irving Park Road and Cicero Avenue, on the Northwest Side, has been offering a far more esoteric premium:...Tags: W.C. Fields, Cinema Industry, LaSalle Bank, Documentary (genre), Entertainment
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Movie review, 'Son of the Bride'
What kind of movie could you expect from an Argentine filmmaker who lives in New York City, directs episodes of TV's "Law and Order," and whose favorite picture of all time is "It's a Wonderful Life"? Maybe something offbeat but not necessarily...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Cinema Industry, It's a Wonderful Life (movie), Entertainment, Comedy (genre)
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Youssef Chahine's "Alexandria, Why?" and "Alexandria, Again and Always"
LMPEgypt's Youssef Chahine, almost universally regarded as his country's finest filmmaker, may not be an easy director for some American audiences to appreciate, especially those used to the more refined and austere international art cinema of, say, Robert...Tags: Cinema Industry, Robert Bresson, Entertainment, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Tribune
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5 films that were landmark musicals
1. "Footlight Parade" (Lloyd Bacon-William Keighley-Busby Berkeley; 1933) 3 1/2 stars Berkeley's finest hour came in this flabbergasting follow-up to "42nd Street," with James Cagney as a Berkeley-like choreographer who directs, for Broadway theaters,...Tags: James Cagney, Joel Grey, Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, Rita Moreno
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