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Movie review: Bright Star -- 4 out of 5 stars
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticJohn Keats' life, love and death make him a romantic cliche and a fine subject for a period romance in Bright Star. Consider -- his now-revered poetry was scorned in his lifetime. He was genteel yet poor, dependent on the kindness of friends. He died...Tags: Roger Moore, Entertainment, PG Rated Movies, Movies, John Keats
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Bright Star director Jane Campion is the champion of period pieces
![It happens every time filmmaker Jane Campion makes a "period piece." The director of The Portrait of a Lady, The Piano and the new 1820s-set drama Bright Star is thrown by the very costumes that she has decreed those starring in her "costume drama" must wear.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-09/49410063-22070656.jpg "It happens every time filmmaker Jane Campion makes a "period piece.\" The director of The Portrait of a Lady, The Piano and the new 1820s-set drama Bright Star is thrown by the very costumes that she has decreed those starring in her \"costume drama\" must wear.")
Sentinel movie criticIt happens every time filmmaker Jane Campion makes a "period piece." The director of The Portrait of a Lady, The Piano and the new 1820s-set drama Bright Star is thrown by the very costumes that she has decreed those starring in her "costume drama" must...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Literature, Beatrix Potter, John Keats
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Oscar nomination breakthroughs: 'Avatar,' Kathryn Bigelow, Lee Daniels ...
Gold DerbyBy reaping Academy Award nominations for best picture, "Avatar" and "District 9" have shattered a strong bias among academy voters. In the past, only two sci-fi films have been nominated for the top Oscars: "Star Wars" (1977) and "E.T." (1982). OK,... -
Cannes film festival competition short on Oscar contenders
Gold DerbyOnly one American film -- "Fair Game" from Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity") -- numbers among the 16 entries in the official competition of this year's Cannes Film Festival. This politically charged biopic about real-life diplomat Joe Wilson and his... -
'Lust, Caution' wins Venice Film Festival
Hollywood stars and filmmakers reaped the rewards of making the trek to Italy to premiere their newest films at the 64th Venice Film Festival this week.
American movie industry mainstays Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Ang Lee and Brian De Palma were among...Tags: Brad Pitt, Entertainment, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Festive Events, Movies
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'My Blueberry Nights' to open Cannes Film Festival
![PARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition. Festival organizers announced the official lineup for the main competition and the Un Certain Regard sidebar Thursday morning in Paris as well as outlining various concurrent events.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23038102.jpg "PARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights\" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition. Festival organizers announced the official lineup for the main competition and the Un Certain Regard sidebar Thursday morning in Paris as well as outlining various concurrent events.")
Special to The TimesPARIS — A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed by a French company and starring a mix of British and American actors, Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in competition....Tags: Entertainment, Robert Downey Jr., Toni Collette, Michael Winterbottom, Arts and Culture
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UN-backed film to premiere at Rome film fest
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday. Titled "8," the movie aims to raise awareness...Tags: Keira Knightley, Entertainment, Movies, Festive Events, The Duchess (movie)
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Up, up ... and away
![To tell the tale of the greatest American superhero, the producers of "Superman Returns" brought six tons of lumber to a rural parcel on the Breeza Plains of Australia and built a Kansas farmhouse, windmill and an ox-blood red barn. They planted five acres of corn and paved six miles of road to reach their new Midwest homestead. And all of this because, for Hollywood filmmakers today, it makes more money sense to build Smallville USA on a different continent than it does to simply stay home.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-12/21208446.jpg "To tell the tale of the greatest American superhero, the producers of "Superman Returns\" brought six tons of lumber to a rural parcel on the Breeza Plains of Australia and built a Kansas farmhouse, windmill and an ox-blood red barn. They planted five acres of corn and paved six miles of road to reach their new Midwest homestead. And all of this because, for Hollywood filmmakers today, it makes more money sense to build Smallville USA on a different continent than it does to simply stay home.")
Times Staff WriterTo tell the tale of the greatest American superhero, the producers of "Superman Returns" brought six tons of lumber to a rural parcel on the Breeza Plains of Australia and built a Kansas farmhouse, windmill and an ox-blood red barn. They planted five...Tags: Entertainment, Superman (fictional character), Gaming, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Robin Williams
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DocuWeek is devoted mostly to the dark side
![The International Documentary Assn.'s DocuWeek returns to the ArcLight on Friday, and the selection of films this year — 12 features and four shorts — is especially strong (if mostly chilling) in the stories they tell and the issues they lay open, from the struggle to get a fair price for poverty-stricken coffee growers ("Black Gold") to the efforts of fundamentalist Christians to mold young evangelists ("Jesus Camp").](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-08/24915491.jpg "The International Documentary Assn.'s DocuWeek returns to the ArcLight on Friday, and the selection of films this year — 12 features and four shorts — is especially strong (if mostly chilling) in the stories they tell and the issues they lay open, from the struggle to get a fair price for poverty-stricken coffee growers ("Black Gold\") to the efforts of fundamentalist Christians to mold young evangelists (\"Jesus Camp\").")
Special to The TimesThe International Documentary Assn.'s DocuWeek returns to the ArcLight on Friday, and the selection of films this year — 12 features and four shorts — is especially strong (if mostly chilling) in the stories they tell and the issues they lay...Tags: Entertainment, Frontline Limited, Movies, Rape, Defense
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Jane Campion's 'Bright Star' poetry
![Jane Campion has been many things, including the only woman to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and an inspiration, she only recently found out, to Quentin Tarantino, who confided that her success with "The Piano" emboldened him to feel "you could keep your own voice and find an audience." But she never thought she'd end up as a disappointment to the video split operator on her latest film, "Bright Star."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-05/46974038-17175703.jpg "Jane Campion has been many things, including the only woman to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and an inspiration, she only recently found out, to Quentin Tarantino, who confided that her success with "The Piano\" emboldened him to feel \"you could keep your own voice and find an audience.\" But she never thought she'd end up as a disappointment to the video split operator on her latest film, \"Bright Star.\"")
Film CriticJane Campion has been many things, including the only woman to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and an inspiration, she only recently found out, to Quentin Tarantino, who confided that her success with "The Piano" emboldened him to feel "you...Tags: Entertainment, Heath Ledger, Movies, Festive Events, Culture
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New Zealand is abuzz about its towering 'genius,' Peter Jackson, lord of the trilogy
Special to The TimesHe's described locally as a "genius masquerading as an ordinary person," a creative whirlwind, finan-cial powerhouse and folk hero rolled into one. Yet even that can't quite measure the effect "The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson has had on...Tags: Entertainment, Gaming, Lee Tamahori, Family, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Love Serenade
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 1, 1997 "Love Serenade" offers as precise and merciless a comic vision as anyone could want. A wickedly funny examination of obsessive romantic behavior, its satiric vision of women in love and men on the make was devastating enough to...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Prince (music artist), Movies, Radio Industry
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