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Movie Review | 'I’m Still Here': Running Away From the Circus last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:18:21 GMT
Joaquin Phoenix takes on the mutually parasitic worlds of celebrity and media in a film directed by Casey Affleck.
 
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Where Even Robert Redford Has to Work to Sell His New Film last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:23:42 GMT
The studio star, in nervous-filmmaker mode, is seeking a distributor for his latest movie, “The Conspirator,” at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Movie Review | 'Bran Nue Dae': Aboriginal Teenager’s Australian Road Trip last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
A movie adapted from a popular stage show by the Aboriginal band Jimmy Chi and Kuckles focuses on an Aboriginal teenager who runs away from boarding school.
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Movie Review | 'Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould': Enshrining an Extraordinary Poet of the Keyboard, Quirks and All last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
An appraisal of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who remains an object of fervent admiration nearly 30 years after his death.
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Movie Review | 'Heartbreaker': Professional Seducer Finally Meets His Match last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
Romain Duris stars in the French director Pascal Chaumeil’s mélange of comedy and romance set in Monte Carlo.
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Movie Review | 'Hideaway': Pregnant, but Not What She Expected last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
In this film by François Ozon, a young pregnant woman who loses her lover to drugs lands in unexpected places.
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Movie Review | 'Legendary': A Sooner State Story of Better Family Unity Through Wrestling last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:33:03 GMT
Patricia Clarkson and John Cena star in a family drama centered around wrestling in Oklahoma.
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Movie Review | 'The Romantics': Unrequited Passion on the Cusp of 30 last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:53:03 GMT
A clique of seven Harvard friends reunite for a wedding and old emotions well up in this generational portrait of privileged white Americans on the cusp of 30.
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Movie Review | 'Who Is Harry Nilsson? (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?): Lennon’s Fave; Do You Know Him? last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:23:03 GMT
A documentary on the singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, who reached his creative peak with the release of the pop album “Nilsson Schmilsson.”
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Movie Review | 'Ahead of Time': What She Saw: A Life’s Dispatches last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:53:03 GMT
Bob Richman’s documentary about the extraordinary life and career of Ruth Gruber, now 98: reporter, photographer, humanitarian.
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Movie Review | 'Lovely, Still': A Late-Life Relationship last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
Ellen Burstyn and Martin Landau play a couple in “Lovely, Still.”
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Movie Review | 'Chosin': The Frozen War in Korea last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:05 GMT
A documentary by former Marines recalls the Korean War when it was frozen.
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Movie Review | 'Modus Operandi': A Violent Homage to Genre Films last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
Danny Trejo stars in Frankie Latina’s violent homage to genre exploitation films.
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Movie Review | 'Sequestro': Retrieving Hostages in Brazil last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:15:12 GMT
A documentary tracks a Brazilian police division dedicated to retrieving hostages.
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Movie Review | 'The Afterlight': Alienation in Farm Country last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:05 GMT
Michael Kelly and Jicky Schnee play an alienated couple who move to farm country in upstate New York.
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Movie Review | 'Race to Nowhere': The Overscheduled Child last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:43:06 GMT
A parent contends that American children are overscheduled and overstressed.
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Movie Review | 'Honeymoons': Stumbling Over Roadblocks to Love and Hope last updated on: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:13:02 GMT
The first Albanian-Serbian co-production, the film “Honeymoons” (unsurprisingly about ethnic biases and tensions) has the courage to end in a kind of limbo.
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Film Series and Movies Listings last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:03:04 GMT
A listing of film series and movies.
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Movie Review | 'We Are Family': Mom-Stepmom Two Step last updated on: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:04 GMT
“We Are Family,” a film based on “Stepmom,” is about a hard-to-believe relationship between two women.
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Glenn Shadix, Actor in ‘Beetlejuice,’ Dies at 58 last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:13:05 GMT
Mr. Shadix appeared in more than 30 films, most memorably as an uppity interior designer in “Beetlejuice.”
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Clive Donner, 1960s-Era Film Director, Dies at 84 last updated on: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:10:28 GMT
Mr. Donner was part of the British New Wave filmmakers with “The Caretaker” and “What’s New Pussycat?”
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Politics on Film, but This Time Leaning Right last updated on: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:48:37 GMT
“I Want Your Money,” a political documentary by Ray Griggs, is a minor triumph for one of the less visible minorities: the Hollywood right.
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Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes last updated on: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:16:58 GMT
At the Telluride Film Festival, some of the fall’s most anticipated movies get a test run.
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Lessons of the Summer Box Office last updated on: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:40:12 GMT
Movie attendance was down, but some films — like “Toy Story 3” and “Inception” — made out very, very well.
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A Bronx Film School Tale last updated on: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:45:28 GMT
The Ghetto Film School in the Bronx aims to broaden the pool of filmmaking talent by providing opportunities for young people who might otherwise be overlooked.
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Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric last updated on: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:44:34 GMT
A new documentary tries to find the hidden side of the pianist Glenn Gould.
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Rigor Required, Cream Puffs Need Not Apply last updated on: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:19:03 GMT
Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary “Kings of Pastry” explores the Olympic-style, three-day competition for French pastry chefs held every four years.
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Hey, Dad, Get With the (3-D) Program last updated on: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:14:36 GMT
The sea change of 3-D TV will bring a generation gap. It’s inevitable. It’s genetic.
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Victims’ Families Fight Film About Madrid Plane Crash last updated on: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:40:21 GMT
Spanish courts have not yet ruled on complaints against the movie, and the channel Telecinco showed the first part last week.
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Even Hit Like ‘Kick-Ass’ Can Seem Like Miss at Debut last updated on: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:10:11 GMT
The film “Kick-Ass” fell short in its opening weekend, and bloggers wrote it off as a flop. Never mind that this $15 million film went on to sell almost $100 million in tickets.
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DVDs: Tough Women and Flawed Men last updated on: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:19:03 GMT
The Warner Archive Collection, a burn-on-demand service, has added two films by the great director Frank Borzage, “Living on Velvet” and “Stranded.”
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Recounting the Past of a Witness to History last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:44:36 GMT
A new documentary recounts the early adventures of the journalist Ruth Gruber, now 99.
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No. 1 Sleuth last updated on: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.
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40 Years After ‘MASH,’ Gould Reflects on an Era last updated on: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:13:02 GMT
A special showing in New York on Saturday will end with a question-and-answer session with some of the stars of “MASH” and the widow of the director, Robert Altman.
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Time Marches ... Backward! last updated on: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:23:02 GMT
The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting “The March of Time” series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.
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Turkish Action Film Depicts Israeli Raid last updated on: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:20:37 GMT
“Valley of the Wolves: Palestine” is built around the unsuccessful attempt in May by a six-boat Turkish flotilla to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.
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It’s Another Ride for Ben Affleck, Filmmaker-Star last updated on: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:05:46 GMT
“The Town” gives Ben Affleck another chance to shine as writer, director and star.
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Alain Corneau, César-Winning Film Director, Dies at 67 last updated on: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:06:35 GMT
The director was best known for his 1991 award-winning film “Tous les Matins du Monde.”
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Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett’s Girl, Dies at 76 last updated on: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:03:02 GMT
Ms. King played Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler’s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in “Gone With the Wind.”
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Film: Much Taller, Still Plastered last updated on: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:26:22 GMT
The 1981 Dudley Moore comedy “Arthur” is being remade, starring Russell Brand, and filming is taking place all over Manhattan and Queens.
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Film: Following Workers’ Trails of Tears in China last updated on: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:39:11 GMT
The documentary “Last Train Home” looks at a generation of migrant workers who have sacrificed their families to China’s rush to economic supremacy.
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Film: Computer Animation, Made by Hand last updated on: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:33:02 GMT
The animation team Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, in films like “My Dog Tulip,” use custom-made computers to create their hand-drawn-looking images.
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Film: Driven by Fierce Visions of Independence last updated on: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:45:39 GMT
Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda,” a feminist portrayal of a woman struggling to survive, is being reissued.
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DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color last updated on: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:23:01 GMT
“Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,” Albert Lewin’s morbid, grandiloquent Technicolor film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been released on DVD.
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Hey, Big Spender: Hollywood Isn’t in the Mood last updated on: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:38:20 GMT
How does Joel Silver, the producer behind “Die Hard” and “The Matrix,” adapt to a movie industry that is cutting costs?
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Are Films Bad, or Is TV Just Better? last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:28:25 GMT
Attendance is down. At the water cooler, they’re talking about “Mad Men.” It’s hand-wringing time for cinephiles.
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Ebert on the New ‘At the Movies’ last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:18:16 GMT
The new program, called "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," will be shown on public television starting in January.
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New Malick Film, 'The Tree of Life,' Will Finally Live on Screen last updated on: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:51:51 GMT
The film, about a Midwestern family in the 1950's, will be Mr. Malick's first since "The New World" in 2005.
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A Clip From 'Score: A Hockey Musical' last updated on: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:03:15 GMT
A clip from the opening night film of the Toronto International Film Festival, "Score: A Hockey Musical."
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