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Dark City
FOR THE TIMESFriday February 27, 1998 Like Hong Kong action directors reinventing the western, Australia's current crop of filmmakers are happily absorbing the received wisdom of Hollywood and boomeranging it back at us. Recalibrated film noir. The costume...Tags: Rufus Sewell, Fritz Lang, Nike, Inc., Ian Richardson, Tim Burton
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Lost in Space
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 3, 1998 "Lost in Space" is way more lost than it knows. Yet another theatrical feature based on a decades-old TV show (what's next--"Modern Farmer: The Movie"?), this effects-loaded extravaganza has more trouble finding its...Tags: Jack Johnson, Science Fiction (genre), Family, Gaming, Lacey Chabert
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One True Thing
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday September 18, 1998 What the movie business calls women's pictures get scant respect in Hollywood. The phrase signals dismissal and denigration, a way to casually brush off works that deal with emotions more than explosions, that think the...Tags: Movies, Jane Austen, Entertainment, Carl Franklin, Renee Zellweger
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Hurlyburly
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 25, 1998 "Hurlyburly" takes us into the hills of Hollywood to acquaint us with a group of people we've met many times before, on the screen and in life--and would take pains to avoid whenever we could. Yet playwright-screenwriter...Tags: Christopher Walken, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn, Neil LaBute
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Sunshine
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 9, 2000 With the monumental three-hour "Sunshine," master director Istvan Szabo relates the tragic and turbulent history of Hungary in the 20th century. The story is told through the Sonnenscheins, an assimilated Jewish family whose last...Tags: Heroism, Jennifer Ehle, Photography, Family, Rachel Weisz
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Pressing business
CMBWhy do the movies, old and new, have such a continuing fascination for newspaper offices? For wisecracking reporters, tantrum-throwing editors and the race to beat the last deadline? Ever since movies started to talk in the 1920s, newspapers have been a...Tags: Billy Wilder, Dick Powell, Robert Redford, Comedy (genre), Walter Matthau
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Movie review: 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 stars (out of 4) Now being re-released, "Kiss of the Spider Woman," the 1985 Oscar-winning movie version of Manuel Puig's novel, was a landmark production for American independent cinema. It's also one of the most intriguing prison dramas ever put on...Tags: Sexual Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Burt Lancaster, Cannes Film Festival
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Top winners from 1986
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Dexter Gordon as Dale Turner in 'ROUND MIDNIGHT Irwin Winkler Production; Warner Bros. Bob Hoskins as George in MONA LISA Palace/HandMade Production; Island Pictures William Hurt as James in...Tags: Dianne Wiest, Children, James Woods, Michael Caine, Sissy Spacek
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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: William Hickey, Jon Voight, Television Industry, Jack Nicholson, Oprah Winfrey
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Top winners from 1987
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in WALL STREET Oaxatal Production; 20th Century Fox William Hurt as Tom Grunick in BROADCAST NEWS 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox Marcello...Tags: Holly Hunter, Morgan Freeman, Anne Ramsey, Cher, Jack Nicholson
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'Changing Lanes'
Times Staff WriterCompelling yet off-putting, quietly realistic as well as completely contrived, shameless in the name of social responsibility, "Changing Lanes" is a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is....Tags: Sydney Pollack, Samuel L. Jackson, Transportation, Toni Collette, Vehicles
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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: Samuel L. Jackson, Sydney Pollack, Dylan Baker, Values, Justice System
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