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Kathryn Bigelow and Oliver Stone: What do they have in common?
The Academy Awards are still two months away, but the surge of critical support for Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” is raising a provocative question: How many filmmakers have won two best director Oscars within just a few years?...
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Movies, Clint Eastwood, Academy Awards, Steven Spielberg
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How Was It For You?
Blogging with Bill WhiteJust before we went to bed Monday night, I stepped from our powerless house onto the front porch to see whether the wind was dying down. I glanced right and saw evergreen branches sticking through the porch where they wouldn't...... -
Oscar nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads field; surprises, snubs seen
Only in Hollywood could a tiny, low-budget tale of a little girl named Hushpuppy who lives in the bayou take on a historical epic by master filmmaker Steven Spielberg about the 16th president’s struggle to end slavery and the Civil War. But...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frankenweenie (movie), James Bond (fictional character), Emma Stone
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Movie books go between the covers with Hollywood's elite
Are you a film buff who received a holiday gift certificate for books? Not to worry. Here's a post-Christmas guide to three books about legendary cinema stars, and a fourth about some of Hollywood's bit players. "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies":...
Tags: True Grit (movie), Drew Barrymore, Entertainment Events, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard
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Fess Parker dies at 85; actor played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on TV
Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin caps, died Thursday. He was 85.
Parker, who played another...Tags: Arts and Culture, Beverage Industry, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), James Arness, Consumer Electronics Industry
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Language, Jason Robards, Fritz Lang, Charles Chaplin, Sam Peckinpah
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Irene C. Ford, 81
Irene C. Ford, 81, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Her family and pastor, Orville Theaker were present. Irene was born on Oct. 19, 1931, the daughter of Cluster and Lilly Simmons. Irene married John Ford on Dec. 5, 1947,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Baptist
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'Upstream': A treasure, once thought lost, screens Wednesday
This Wednesday, thanks to the good folks at the Northwest Chicago Film Society, a John Ford film that hasn't been shown in Chicago since 1927 returns to the big screen. This "lovable mutt" of a comedy, as described by the NCFS' Kyle Westphal, is called...
Tags: Movies, The Iron Horse (movie), New York City, John Barrymore, Entertainment
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'Lincoln': A political animal of a different kind ★★★★
"Lincoln" is a grave and surprisingly subtle magic trick, conjuring the past and an almost ridiculously impressive figure in ways that transcend art direction and the right stovepipe hat. Director Steven Spielberg's latest combines the most commonly...
Tags: Janusz Kaminski, Tony Kushner, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Reader Q&A: Dan Pompei's Bears mailbag
Chicago Tribune reporterWho is your choice for the biggest surprise of the season so far? Would I be in the running if I said Tim Jennings? -- Chuck Durante, Guiling, China There are a number of candidates. Tim Jennings is a good one, seeing he was benched at the end of last...Tags: Super Bowl, Chicago Bears, Peyton Manning, Tim Jennings, Seattle Seahawks
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Early Alfred Hitchcock effort discovered
It's the kind of surprise the Master of Suspense would have loved.
The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive are announcing Wednesday the discovery of the first 30 minutes of a 1923 British film, "The White Shadow,"...Tags: Research, University of California, Los Angeles, David O. Selznick, Alfred Hitchcock, Samuel Goldwyn
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A Towering Act Of Filmmaking
Courant Film CriticPeter Jackson's epic "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" first unfolds with even greater grandeur than "The Fellowship of the Ring." But the inherent cinematic problems of the J.R.R. Tolkien book - huge battles, a divided story and talking trees -...Tags: Arts and Culture, Miranda Otto, Elijah Wood, Literature, Crime, Law and Justice
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