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The Wings of the Dove
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 7, 1997 Despite a dense, convoluted writing style that makes no concessions to readers in a hurry, magisterial novelist Henry James has lately become a favorite of movie-makers. This last year has seen Jane Campion's "Portrait of a...Tags: Elizabeth McGovern, Washington (U.S. state), Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Miramax Films
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Holy Smoke
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 3, 1999 "Holy Smoke," a high-risk, darkly comic triumph, is the most unabashedly outrageous movie Jane Campion has made since her debut, "Sweetie," a decade ago. Like that film's heroine "Holy Smoke's" Ruth is at intense odds with...Tags: Miramax Films, Fanny Ardant, Death, Family, Pam Grier
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Soft Fruit
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 7, 2000 "Soft Fruit" asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life. The difference between this film, a first feature for writer-director Christina Andreef, and works by her executive...Tags: Jack Black, Emmanuelle Seigner, Robert Downey Jr., Death, Lisa Bonet
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'In the Cut'
Times Staff WriterJane Campion's astonishingly beautiful new film, "In the Cut," may be the most maddening and imperfect great movie of the year. Certainly it's the most difficult to cozy up to with its unnerving fusion of hot sex, icy sentiment and warm-running blood. The...Tags: AMC (tv network), David Lynch, Crimes, Genres, Kevin Bacon
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'Rings,' sure, but surprises galore
![Sweeping epics, a gritty crime drama and an offbeat love story set in Japan grabbed Academy Award nominations for best picture Tuesday with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" the likely favorite in this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-01/11168078.jpg "Sweeping epics, a gritty crime drama and an offbeat love story set in Japan grabbed Academy Award nominations for best picture Tuesday with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King\" the likely favorite in this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations.")
Times Staff WritersSweeping epics, a gritty crime drama and an offbeat love story set in Japan grabbed Academy Award nominations for best picture Tuesday with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" the likely favorite in this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations....Tags: Patricia Clarkson, Arts and Culture, Djimon Hounsou, Comedy (genre), Marcia Gay Harden
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Loaded
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 12, 1996 The title of Anna Campion's provocative and challenging "Loaded" refers both to the anxieties and uncertainties that can grip all Gen X-ers and to seven young people who gather in an old Georgian-style mansion in rural...Tags: Movies, Catherine McCormack, Thandie Newton, Anna Campion, John Gilbert
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Lolita
TIMES STAFF WRITERThursday September 12, 1996 When director Stanley Kubrick and novelist Vladimir Nabokov brought Nabokov's controversial novel "Lolita" to the screen in 1962, they cast 15-year-old newcomer Sue Lyon in the title role without specifying her age, which...Tags: Dominique Swain, Vladimir Nabokov, Stanley Kubrick, Frank Langella, Entertainment
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The Portrait of a Lady
TIMES FILM CRITICTuesday December 24, 1996 "The Portrait of a Lady" is a marriage of opposites, a potent joining of the dispassionate psychological complexity of the novelist admirers called the Master and an assured and assertive director who relishes the intensity...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Gramercy, Monty Montgomery, Donovan, Montgomery Clift
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