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City of Lights, City of Angels French film fest books 38 features
The 17th City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival announced its most ambitious slate to date Tuesday with 38 feature films and 19 shorts. Of the 38 features, three are international premieres, 11 are North American or U.S. premieres and 16...
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'Community' recap: My 'Dinner With Andre' dinner with Abed, but where's 'Pulp Fiction'?
Show TrackerAnd we start with a suited-up Jeff (Joel McHale), walking down the street with gift in hand, doing a voice-over like a 21st century noir hero. It's Abed's birthday, and Jeff has a special treat for him. But first he...... -
Your Morning Fashion and Beauty Report: Dukan diet might be helping Kate Middleton lose weight before the big day and Miranda Kerr is already back in bikini shape
All The Rage-- The Dukan diet, popular in France and with celebrities reportedly including Gisele Bundchen, Jennifer Lopez and, possibly, Kate Middleton (OK, the latter is just speculation on some people's parts because her mother is on it, but it seems as...... -
Libraries: a bigger source of DVDs than Netflix
Jacket CopyOnce upon a time, libraries were a place for books. A Netflix representative said just that -- "I think of libraries as places for books" -- but that, apparently, is now a minority perspective. According to a survey by the...... -
Tomei and Winslet: nudity = Oscar glory?
![Take 26. <b>¶</b> That's the shot that director Darren Aronofsky used of Marisa Tomei in one of "The Wrestler's" pivotal dance sequences, one in which the 44-year-old Academy Award nominee gyrates and prances, flaunts and slinks -- largely in the nude -- across a real New Jersey club called Cheeques. <b>¶</b> That combination of Aronofsky's persistence paired with the time constraints of an indie film budget didn't allow for Tomei to have much reluctance about baring all. "It was just fast and furious," she says, "and there was no room for being shy or for niceties. [The character's] comfortability has to become my comfortability. The diving in needed to happen." <b>¶</b> Tomei isn't the only Oscar nominee this year who shed her clothes for the part. Kate Winslet's haunting performance as the enigmatic Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader" involved extensive nudity, sparking one critic to fume that her nakedness trivialized the Holocaust.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-02/45131920-18152224.jpg "Take 26. <b>¶</b> That's the shot that director Darren Aronofsky used of Marisa Tomei in one of "The Wrestler's\" pivotal dance sequences, one in which the 44-year-old Academy Award nominee gyrates and prances, flaunts and slinks -- largely in the nude -- across a real New Jersey club called Cheeques. <b>¶</b> That combination of Aronofsky's persistence paired with the time constraints of an indie film budget didn't allow for Tomei to have much reluctance about baring all. \"It was just fast and furious,\" she says, \"and there was no room for being shy or for niceties. [The character's] comfortability has to become my comfortability. The diving in needed to happen.\" <b>¶</b> Tomei isn't the only Oscar nominee this year who shed her clothes for the part. Kate Winslet's haunting performance as the enigmatic Hanna Schmitz in \"The Reader\" involved extensive nudity, sparking one critic to fume that her nakedness trivialized the Holocaust.")
Take 26. ¶ That's the shot that director Darren Aronofsky used of Marisa Tomei in one of "The Wrestler's" pivotal dance sequences, one in which the 44-year-old Academy Award nominee gyrates and prances, flaunts and slinks -- largely in the nude --...Tags: MTV (tv network), Movies, Dining and Drinking, Television, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Julianne Moore knows how to make them suffer
Special to The TimesJULIANNE MOORE has made a specialty of suffering in silence, her pale skin pulling tight across her cheekbones to form a flawless mask, a shell of perfect beauty concealing a soul in deepest turmoil. Only in private moments, when no one but the audience...Tags: Fernando Meirelles, Abusive Behavior, West Village, Movies, Savage Grace (movie)
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A day in New Orleans
Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Fausset guides you on a day in the life of his former hometown, from daybreak to closing time, with diary entries that capture the faces and voices of a battered city that lives nonetheless by the defiant credo of its...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Condos and Houses, Banking, Regional Authority, H&R Block Inc.
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'Elevator to the Gallows'
![As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major talents — director Louis Malle, star Jeanne Moreau, cinematographer Henri Decaë, musician Miles Davis — and achieved near-legendary results with all of them.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-07/18698331.jpg "As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows\" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major talents — director Louis Malle, star Jeanne Moreau, cinematographer Henri Decaë, musician Miles Davis — and achieved near-legendary results with all of them.")
Times Staff WriterAs beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major...Tags: Jeanne Moreau, Robert Bresson, Crime, Law and Justice, Movies, French Movies
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'Postino,' 'Paradiso' Star Noiret Dies
Zap2It.comPhilippe Noiret, the renowned French actor best known in the U.S. for "Il Postino" and "Cinema Paradiso," has died at the age of 76. The actor, who had been battling cancer, died Thursday, Nov. 23 in Paris of undisclosed causes, report news sources....Tags: Movies, World War II (1939-1945), Death, Entertainment, Pablo Neruda
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'Phantom India'
![Early in his monumental fresco "Phantom India" (1969), the late Louis Malle says he decided to let his camera be his guide, meaning he would strive not to impose any preconceived views of the country on his documentary but would attempt to immerse himself in its daily life and discover for himself the complexities of its culture and society. His approach not only allowed him to capture the quality and tempo of life in many parts of India but to do so with considerable depth.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-03/22413442.jpg "Early in his monumental fresco "Phantom India\" (1969), the late Louis Malle says he decided to let his camera be his guide, meaning he would strive not to impose any preconceived views of the country on his documentary but would attempt to immerse himself in its daily life and discover for himself the complexities of its culture and society. His approach not only allowed him to capture the quality and tempo of life in many parts of India but to do so with considerable depth.")
Special to The TimesEarly in his monumental fresco "Phantom India" (1969), the late Louis Malle says he decided to let his camera be his guide, meaning he would strive not to impose any preconceived views of the country on his documentary but would attempt to immerse himself...Tags: Hinduism, Death, Documentary (genre), Marathon, Sports
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Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Nykvist Dies
Zap2It.comSven Nykvist, the Oscar-winning cinematographer and filmmaker whose naturalistic, straightforward camera work distinguished the movies of directors Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen, died Wednesday. He was 83. Nykvist had battled a long illness and was...Tags: Movies, Nora Ephron, Pauline Kael, Cinema Industry, Lasse Hallstrom
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Fanning's turn as rape victim sparks alarm
![Consider this your early-warning Sundance Film Festival controversy alert: Cute little Dakota Fanning plays a precocious child sex-abuse and rape victim in Full Moon Films' upcoming "Hounddog."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-01/27306037.jpg "Consider this your early-warning Sundance Film Festival controversy alert: Cute little Dakota Fanning plays a precocious child sex-abuse and rape victim in Full Moon Films' upcoming "Hounddog.\"")
Times Staff WriterConsider this your early-warning Sundance Film Festival controversy alert: Cute little Dakota Fanning plays a precocious child sex-abuse and rape victim in Full Moon Films' upcoming "Hounddog." The issue: Fanning, who turns 13 next month, is reportedly...Tags: Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Brooke Shields, Sundance Film Festival, Jena Malone
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