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Sundance tries a broader outlook
The Sundance Film Festival is finally growing up. Even as it has enjoyed increased cache and huge success, for years it has been known for self-consciously quirky films that lean heavily on dysfunctional families and relationships. For the 2007 edition,...Tags: Cinema Industry, Molly Shannon, Festive Events, Sundance Film Festival, John C. Reilly
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'The Sweet Hereafter'
Times Film CriticThe exquisite and overwhelming emotional tapestry that is "The Sweet Hereafter" plays its credits over the simplest and most primal of scenes. An infant and its parents, unclothed and drowsy under white sheets, share the same quiet bed. It's a pristine...Tags: Health, New York, Jean-Luc Godard, Movies, Cinema Industry
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'No Such Thing'
Times Staff WriterIn Hal Hartley's tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fable "No Such Thing," the director imagines that what supermarket tabloids say is true: A monster does indeed still roam the Earth. In this case, the Monster (Robert John Burke) lives in a ship...Tags: Television, Plastic Surgeons, Movies, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Cinema Industry
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'My Life Without Me'
Times Staff Writer"My Life Without Me" has an authentic look and feel of gritty blue-collar life in British Columbia and has been made with dedication and commitment, but its depiction of dying at an early age is as romantic and sanitized as if it had been made in...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Pedro Almodovar, Mark Ruffalo, Death
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Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 9, 1999 "Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane" is a hilarious black comedy in which a pair of luckless, 30ish, small-town car salesmen, driven to desperation, agree to take 48-hour custody of a burgundy 1963 Pontiac Le Mans convertible--in...Tags: Movies, Cinema Industry, Jane Krakowski, Jay Mohr, Joe Carnahan
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Guinevere
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday September 24, 1999 Both true and contrived, genuine and slick, "Guinevere" details one of the world's oldest stories: the relationship, at once mentoring and romantic, between an older man and a much younger, beautiful woman. We have a...Tags: Weddings, Movies, Stephen Rea, Miramax Films, Arts and Culture
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The Claim
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 29, 2000 To watch Michael Winterbottom's audacious "The Claim" is to wish Cecil B. DeMille had the idea first of transposing Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" to Northern California two decades after the discovery of gold in...Tags: Martin Katz, Movies, BBC, Wes Bentley, Social Issues
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Movie review: 'The Event'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) My Parker-Posey-love-o-meter was completely knocked out of whack upon learning that Posey - the indie world's Julia Roberts, with movies like "The House of Yes," "The Anniversary Party" and "Best in Show" under her thrift-store belt...Tags: Health, Movies, Tony Kushner, Cinema Industry, Jane Leeves
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'The Event'
Times Staff Writer"The Event" is a deeply affecting film that is an important accomplishment on many counts. It is a celebration of life in the face of death, an affirmation of dignity in the midst of tragic loss and an assertion to the right to privacy. It marks...Tags: Movies, Cinema Industry, Celebrities and Health Issues, Gays and Lesbians, Parker Posey
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'The Weight of Water'
Times Staff WriterDirector Kathryn Bigelow has always seemed an uneasy fit with the American movie industry. Part of this discomfort is the chilliness of her touch, the almost aggressive lack of emotional heat we expect in our movies. Then there's the fact that the film...Tags: Movies, Literature, Arts and Culture, Kathryn Bigelow, Career and Workplace
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'Dawn of the Dead'
![Good zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well. The story opens with a hush in a Milwaukee hospital as an emergency-room nurse (Sarah Polley) wearily moves through her final hour at work. Too exhausted to notice the casualties flooding into the ward, Ana returns home to her last untroubled sleep, only to wake to the nightmare vision of a child ripping a man's throat out with its teeth.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-03/11877302.jpg "Good zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead\" is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well. The story opens with a hush in a Milwaukee hospital as an emergency-room nurse (Sarah Polley) wearily moves through her final hour at work. Too exhausted to notice the casualties flooding into the ward, Ana returns home to her last untroubled sleep, only to wake to the nightmare vision of a child ripping a man's throat out with its teeth.")
Times Staff WriterGood zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well. The story opens with a hush in a Milwaukee hospital as an emergency-room nurse (Sarah Polley)...Tags: Health, Television, Ving Rhames, Marg Helgenberger, George Romero
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Movie review: 'My Life Without Me'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) Shut up and die already. "My Life Without Me" is a film about a terminally ill woman and the choices she makes for her dying days. This grim yawner features universally fine performances - or at least they would be fine if they...Tags: Health, Entertainment, Movies, Mark Ruffalo, Death
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