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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: Cinema Industry, Germany, Photography, Defense, Judaism
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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: Death, Film Festivals, Mali, Mathieu Amalric, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: PG Rated Movies, Death, Jean-Luc Godard, French Movies, Cinema Industry
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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, Neve Campbell, Johnny Depp, Michael Clarke Duncan, Parker Posey
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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: Cary Elwes, Philip Baker Hall, John Turturro, Entertainment, Peter Weller
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Love's Labour's Lost
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 9, 2000 Writing musical theater was not an option for William Shakespeare, but Kenneth Branagh hasn't let that trouble him. He's turned Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" into a 1930s-style romantic musical comedy, garnished with retro...Tags: Natascha McElhone, World War II (1939-1945), Patrick Doyle, Adrian Lester, Entertainment
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Forget the Story--Action Rules 'Kiss of the Dragon'
TIMES FILM CRITIC"You know those movies, with Chinese guys kicking and screaming all the time?" a woman named Jessica asks in "Kiss of the Dragon." Yes, Jessica, we do know those movies, and this is one of them. The latest example of the mainstreaming of Asian action...Tags: Burt Kwouk, Luc Besson, North Dakota, Jet Li, Crimes
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Train of Life
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 5, 1999 With "Train of Life," writer-director Radu Mihaileanu came up with a clever premise, but you wish he'd played up its potential more for suspense than for broad ethnic humor. To give him credit, he does end on an unexpected...Tags: Comedy (genre), Romania, International Law, Nazi Party, Extradition
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'East-West'
Times Staff WriterFriday April 7, 2000 Regis Wargnier's Oscar-nominated "East-West," a superb follow-up to his 1993 Oscar-winning "Indochine," takes the most somber of predicaments, and makes it involving, romantic and ultimately intensely suspenseful. In doing...Tags: Celebrities, Russia, Simone Signoret, Patrick Doyle, World War II (1939-1945)
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Cecil B. DeMented
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 11, 2000 What better place to launch a broadside at mindless mainstream movies than from within a mainstream movie? John Waters, Baltimore's master of subversive cinema, knows this better than anyone as he takes aim at big-deal, big-...Tags: Melanie Griffith, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Dorff, Entertainment
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Butterfly
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 16, 2000 "Butterfly" takes us back in time to a picturesque Spanish village in Galicia where life seems idyllic. People have their differences and their inevitable losses and disappointments, yet harmony reigns, and in the town's daily...Tags: Cinema Industry, Miramax Films, Entertainment, Spain, Retirement
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Ratcatcher
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday November 1, 2000 Bleak childhoods make for the best cinema, and "Ratcatcher" stands at the head of the class. From acknowledged favorites like Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" to underappreciated works like the Robert De Niro-...Tags: Cinema Industry, Tommy Flanagan, Animals, BBC, Ken Loach
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