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Central Station' ('Central do Brasil)
TIMES STAFF WRITERWednesday November 25, 1998 In Walter Salles' "Central Station," a film that is as beautiful as it is wrenching, the camera picks out a worn, unhappy-looking older woman who sets up a table and chair every day in Rio's vast railroad terminus. She...Tags: Federico Fellini, Walter Salles, Sony Corp., Clermont, Family
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The Swindle
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 23, 1999 When you sit down to watch the droll trickery of "The Swindle," you know you're in good hands. It stars the always reliable Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault and it is writer-director Claude Chabrol's 50th film in 40 years....Tags: Claude Chabrol, Criminals, Crimes, Fraud, Isabelle Huppert
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Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 18, 1999 Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's effortlessly charming musical "Jeanne and the Perfect Guy" is likely to remind you of the classic "Umbrellas of Cherbourg," and not just because its leading man, Mathieu Demy, is the...Tags: Music Theater, AIDS, HIV, Movies, Entertainment
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La Separation
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 23, 1998 Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil, two of the French cinema's most accomplished actors, are teamed--surprisingly for the first time--in Christian Vincent's astute "La Separation." It is a film in which the full range of...Tags: French Movies, Daniel Auteuil, Johann Sebastian Bach, Isabelle Huppert, Romance (genre)
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Waking Ned Devine
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 20, 1998 The names Ian Bannen and David Kelly may not be familiar, but their mischievous faces will be. Senior citizens with nearly a century of experience between them, they're a pair of droll old souls with the comic wisdom of...Tags: Travel, Casino and Gambling, Comedy (genre), Republic of Ireland, James Nesbitt
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Rosie
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 20, 1999 In a way that almost sneaks up on you, Patrice Toye's "Rosie" packs a wallop that's even stronger because its story seems so familiar, its downward trajectory so inevitable. However, Toye, described in publicity material as...Tags: Death, Crime, Law and Justice, Cinema Industry, Movies, Entertainment
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L'Ennui (Boredom)
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 15, 1999 Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...Tags: Bette Davis, Cinema Industry, Movies, Entertainment
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Photographer
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 25, 1999 In 1987, around 400 color slides from the early 1940s turned up in mint condition in a Vienna antique shop. They had been taken by Walter Genewein, the Austrian chief accountant for the Nazis of the Lodz Ghetto, and their...Tags: Dariusz Jablonski, Judaism, Death, Cinema Industry, Nazi Party
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Late August, Early September
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 20, 1999 "Late August, Early September" is involving and intimate as only other people's lives deftly observed can be. An insightful film that takes us on a nuanced emotional journey with a group of friends trying to make sense of...Tags: Film Festivals, New York Film Festival, Mathieu Amalric, Mali, Death
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Autumn Tale
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 23, 1999 Though you wouldn't know it from Hollywood's kids 'r us obsessions, directors actually can improve as they advance in age. The droll and delicious "Autumn Tale" is the 22nd feature in 79-year-old writer-director Eric Rohmer's...Tags: French Movies, Claude Chabrol, PG Rated Movies, Death, Francois Truffaut
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Kadosh
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 17, 2000 Amos Gitai's somber, elegiac "Kadosh," which means "sacred" in Yiddish, takesus into the sequestered world of Mea Shearim, the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, where its devout citizens are committed to preserving an...Tags: Bette Midler, William McNamara, George Wallace, Faizon Love, Barbara Jefford
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Beyond the Clouds
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 3, 1999 In recent years, Italy's grand master, Michelangelo Antonioni, has been largely silenced by a 1985 stroke that has left his speech impaired but from which he otherwise recovered. In 1995, he returned to feature filmmaking...Tags: Ines Sastre, Book, Marcello Mastroianni, Death, Irene Jacob
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