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Jessica Chastain to star in Liv Ullmann's film of 'Miss Julie'
This post has been corrected, as detailed below. Jessica Chastain is currently on Broadway in "The Heiress," playing Catherine Sloper, a rich girl with boyfriend and daddy problems. Now Variety reports that she's been tapped to play another classic...
Tags: Saffron Burrows, Samantha Morton, Neil LaBute, Manhattan (New York City), Long Island
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'Broken' is named best British independent film of 2012
The coming-of-age drama "Broken" won the British Independent Film Award for 2012's best British independent film Sunday evening in London. Rory Kinnear also won best supporting actor for "Broken." "Berberian Sound Studio," a psychological thriller...
Tags: Celebrities, United Kingdom, Drama (genre), Jude Law, Berberian Sound Studio (movie)
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Free Friday: Vimeo Festival, National Donut Day
PIX11.comEach week we tell viewers what they can get for free. This week's free list: 1) Vimeo Festival 2) National Donut Day The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards - a celebration of the world's best online videos - is coming to NYC next week, and 50 lucky PIX 11...Tags: Arts and Culture, Ed Burns, Entertainment Events, Lifestyle and Leisure, Awards and Prizes
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Los Angeles Magazine nominated for two National Magazine Awards
Jacket CopyThe National Magazine Award nominees were announced Tuesday. The awards will be presented May 3 in New York.... -
Monster Mash: Banksy sightings in L.A. this week; St. Louis Art Museum sues over mummy mask
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Kate Moss documentary airs on the Sundance Channel on Tuesday night
All The RageKate Moss, supermodel and fashion icon, is the subject of a documentary airing Tuesday night on the Sundance Channel — part of the network's seven-day series of style-related content that coincides with New York Fashion Week. "Kate! The Making of...... -
Opera review: Mike Figgis directs 'Lucrezia Borgia' for English National Opera
Culture MonsterMike Figgis' cinematic new production of Donizetti's opera, "Lucrezia Borgia," is reviewed by Mark Swed... -
TV Review: 'Canterbury's Law'
![After mastering the mixture of character drama and procedural hijinx on shows like "House" and "Bones," FOX has fallen into a bit of a rut. The fall saw the speedy failure of "K-Ville," a drama that wasted fantastic location work and a solid cast in a morass of police banality. The jury's still out on "New Amsterdam," in which a potentially fascinating immortal lead is stuck doing by-the-numbers detective work. Monday (March 10) sees the premiere of <a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/canterburys-law/EP00932407">"Canterbury's Law,"</a> in which a complicated and tortured attorney plies her trade in courtroom sequences that won't ring true even to viewers who know nothing of the law (much less previous network legal shows).](http://www.zap2it.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-03/36499870-10091457.jpg "After mastering the mixture of character drama and procedural hijinx on shows like "House\" and \"Bones,\" FOX has fallen into a bit of a rut. The fall saw the speedy failure of \"K-Ville,\" a drama that wasted fantastic location work and a solid cast in a morass of police banality. The jury's still out on \"New Amsterdam,\" in which a potentially fascinating immortal lead is stuck doing by-the-numbers detective work. Monday (March 10) sees the premiere of <a href=\"http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/canterburys-law/EP00932407\">\"Canterbury's Law,\"</a> in which a complicated and tortured attorney plies her trade in courtroom sequences that won't ring true even to viewers who know nothing of the law (much less previous network legal shows).")
Zap2It.comAfter mastering the mixture of character drama and procedural hijinx on shows like "House" and "Bones," FOX has fallen into a bit of a rut. The fall saw the speedy failure of "K-Ville," a drama that wasted fantastic location work and a solid cast in a...Tags: House (tv program), Canterbury, Television, Bones (tv program), Crime, Law and Justice
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Pilots: Margulies Practices Law, Rue Medicine
Zap2It.comVeteran series leads Julianna Margulies and Sara Rue have signed on to topline drama pilots at FOX. According to the industry trades, Margulies will star in "Canterbury's Law," a legal drama about a woman named Elizabeth Canterbury (hence the title, we...Tags: Arts and Culture, Canterbury, Television, NBC (tv network), ABC (tv network)
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One Night Stand
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 14, 1997 In creating "One Night Stand," writer-director Mike Figgis has, like the celebrated Dr. Frankenstein, come up with something of a monstrosity: a pompous, pretentious sex farce. If that sounds unnerving, you have no idea. ...Tags: Cinema Industry, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Kyle MacLachlan, Nastassja Kinski
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Leaving Las Vegas
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 27, 1995 "Leaving Las Vegas" is a film laden with virtues but difficult to embrace. Beautifully put together, sensitively acted by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, directed by Mike Figgis with assurance and style and making...Tags: Don Henley, Cinema Industry, Social Issues, Nicolas Cage, Movies
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Get Real
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 30, 1999 It's safe to say that almost every gay teen fantasizes having a romance with the campus hero, inevitably a handsome star athlete and student leader, unattainable to all but the most beautiful and popular girls and surely the...Tags: Movies, Gays and Lesbians, Cinema Industry, Entertainment, Rock Hudson
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