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Cannes Film Festival preview: Time to get off the beach
Brigitte Bardot in a bikini on a French Riviera beach in the early 1950s. Quick — name a single photograph in existence that reminds you less of "The Tree of Life," last year's top prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival. The only movie in...
Tags: Lincoln Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Movies, Festive Events
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'Le Grand Amour': Cinematic inspiration from a Tati associate ★★ 1/2
The more lasting achievements of French director and star Pierre Etaix arrive this month, as part of the Siskel Film Center's Nov. 4-21 retrospective titled "Pierre Etaix: The Lost Laugh." But the 1969 Etaix film "Le Grand Amour," playing this week...
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History of the movies journey worth taking
In recent weeks the nervous future of the movies, as a business and as an occasional, accidental art form, has been subjected to unusually heavy scrutiny and speculation online and in print. This comes after an Oscar-sanctified movie year in which...Tags: The Story of Film: An Odyssey (movie), Entertainment, Saving Private Ryan (movie), Douglas Fairbanks, Hugo (movie)
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'Blancanieves': Grimm tale, rendered silently, beautifully ★★★ 1/2
From Spain, here's a miracle of fairy tale repurposing: a version of the Brothers Grimm's "Snow White," set in Spanish bullfighting country in the late 1920s. Writer-director Pablo Berger's "Blancanieves" goes all the way with its concept, and then...
Tags: Entertainment, Bullfighting, Blancanieves (movie), Artists, Fine Artists
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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Irving Berlin, Bernie (movie), Arts and Culture, The Godfather (movie), Music
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'Footnote' mines scholarly intrigue ✭✭✭ 1/2
A terrific deadpan chronicle of father and son Talmudic scholars beset by an escalating bureaucratic screw-up, Joseph Cedar's" Footnote" sets the tone for the battles to come in its opening sequence.
The son, a well-liked backslapper by the name of Uriel...Tags: Judaism, Footnote (movie), Comedy (genre), Israel, Movies
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Oscar nominations a blast from the past
John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...Tags: Alexander Payne, Movies, Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer, Billy Crystal
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'The Artist' is artful in the way it wins you over -- 3 1/2 stars
Please be silent behind the screen.
Backstage at the 1927 Hollywood premiere of his latest screen triumph, film star George Valentin — played with irresistible zest by Jean Dujardin — waits for the crowd's response. Standing in front of...Tags: PG-13 Rated Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedy (genre), Bernard Herrmann, Movies
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Pretty, manipulative 'War Horse' sort of works -- 2 1/2 stars
On stage in London and New York, "War Horse" has found a wide and emotionally drained audience. How could it be otherwise? The horrors of World War I plus the horrors of war as endured by a horse, capped by a ruthlessly effective happy ending: I don't...Tags: Entertainment Events, John Ford, Literature, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies
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'The Artist' review: Wonderful silent film says in with the old
***1/2 (out of four)
At one point in the joyous French silent film “The Artist,” former American silent movie star George Valentin (Cannes best actor winner Jean Dujardin) receives a compliment that kills him: “My father is a big fan.&...Tags: Entertainment, Artists, Penelope Ann Miller, John Goodman, Movies
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Cannes 2012: Can any film reproduce 'The Artist' magic?
24 FramesCANNES, France -- It was exactly a year ago in this coastal town that much of the film world first heard about a quirky movie from a French director who has a peskily unpronounceable name. On the eve of the world's most prestigious cinema gathering, the... -
'The Artist' to get re-release over Mother's Day weekend
24 FramesBest picture winner "The Artist," the black-and-white love letter to silent cinema, returns to movie theaters this weekend, just in time for Mother's Day...
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