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Cannes 2012: In Praise of Its Treatment of Women (Onscreen, at Least)
ReutersRecently, May 19 (TheWrap.com) - a petition was circulated that upwards of 1,200 people have already signed, taking the Cannes Film Festival to task for not including any films by women directors in the main competition category. This omission offended...Tags: Entertainment, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Arts and Culture, Film Festivals, Spike Lee
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Cannes Festival turns 65 with a lineup heavy on U.S. titles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf all film festivals are balancing acts, it stands to reason that the annual extravaganza at Cannes, likely the world's most celebrated cinematic event, has more to balance than most. Especially this year. Opening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's...Tags: Don DeLillo, Mud (movie), Documentary (genre), Judy Garland, Nicole Kidman
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'Battleship': What the Critics Think of Taylor Kitsch's Naval Adventure
Reuters"Battleship" May 18 (TheWrap.com) - is getting shelled by critics, who are calling the $220 million board game adaptation a loud and joyless exercise in blockbuster filmmaking. The action film hits theaters this weekend and faces a threat greater...Tags: U.S. Navy, Tom Cruise, Taylor Kitsch, Entertainment, Scrabble (game)
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Movie review: The glorious 'Grand Illusion'
Jean Renoir's 1937"Grand Illusion," one of the most admired — and one of the most feared — films ever made, returns to theatrical screens in a fine digital restoration taken from the original camera negative just in time to celebrate its...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, France, Germany, World War I (1914-1918), Ceremonies
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Cannes 2012: Festival turns 65 with a lineup heavy on U.S. titles
24 FramesOpening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's oddly endearing “Moonrise Kingdom,” the Cannes Film Festival is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year and marking that milestone by embracing all kinds of opposites: old and young, dramatic... -
Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: Biography (genre), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Katharine Hepburn, U.S. Department of State, Charles Champlin
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"Great Old Old Broad" Series: Eartha Kitt
Hartford CourantLast Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I began my "Great Old Broad"...Tags: Elaine Stritch, Lobbying, Elizabeth Ashley, Maureen Stapleton, Jimmy Carter
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Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady
Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92.
Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, David O. Selznick, Citizen Kane (movie), Karl Malden, Joseph Cotten
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Review: Eddie Izzard the real prize in Syfy's 'Treasure Island'
"Treasure Island," the 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel about 17th century buccaneers sailing for buried booty, has been translated again to film, with Eddie Izzard as the one-legged, parrot-toting Long John Silver — a role previously inhabited...
Tags: Shirley Henderson, Shaun Parkes, Donald Sutherland, Charlton Heston, Syfy (tv network)
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Portrait of a Bookstore to close after 26 years
Jacket CopyAfter 26 years, Studio City's Portrait of a Bookstore will close its doors.... -
Typewriter fan Steve Soboroff loves the click-clack of carriages
When Steve Soboroff gets one of them in his sights, he goes into what he calls "emergency overdrive." He has been known to bug estate lawyers, hoping to move in and make an acquisition before someone else has the same idea. Sometimes, his enthusiasm...
Tags: Tennessee Williams, Ray Bradbury, George Bernard Shaw, Illinois, San Francisco Giants
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Around Town: Oscar fever hits the Academy, American Cinematheque
24 FramesFilm screenings and festivals: With the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque are presenting seminars and symposiums leading up to the big event....
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