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Seth Grahame-Smith wants to resurrect ‘Beetlejuice,’ ‘It’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comTwo months ago, Seth Grahame-Smith looked like he would be the breakout star of a crowded summer movie season. The ...... -
Movie Review: Jane Eyre
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelA solitary figure runs clad in gray stumbles and weeps across a rainswept moor. Yes, it's “Jane Eyre” time again. One of the most frequently adapted period pieces from the golden age of the corset is back, with Mia “Alice in Wonderland&#... -
Everybody loses: Gotham Awards vs. Indie Spirits ('Hurt Locker' vs. 'Precious')
Gold DerbyJust as we expected, Independent Spirit Awards lavished nominations upon "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" today, thereby addressing the film's ridiculous snub by the other, rival prize for independent films, the Gotham Awards, which... -
Inside AMC's Emmy campaign box: 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Prisoner'
Gold Derby"Mad Men" not only made Emmy history by becoming the first basic-cable TV show to win a best-series award in 2008, but it also repeated the triumph in 2009. For the last two years, AMC also pulled off surprising consecutive wins in the race for best... -
Focus Features unleashes its 2011 lineup, too
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearFocus Features says that the Roman epic The Eagle of the Ninth will come out in Feb., a Jane Eyre directed by the fellow who gave us Sin Nombre should be interesting next April. Hanna, the latest from Atonement director Joe Wright is on their slate and... -
One Mo chance: In which I give 'Breaking Bad' another try
The WatcherI blame Poniewozik. Today, I'm going to try to watch all (or at least some) of the third season of "Breaking Bad," which has its third season finale on Sunday on AMC. I've written before (in this piece, titled "I Don't Love 'Breaking Bad,' What Is Wrong... -
Mia Wasikowska, star of Wonderland and The Kids are All Right
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe best two movies of the summer open this weekend and next in Orlando — Winter's Bone next week, and The Kids are All Right this week. I talked with Mia Wasikowska about Kids, a film that has been embraced by the gay community and others for its... -
Review: 'Sin Nombre'
![There is much strange beauty in the poverty and desperation captured by "Sin Nombre," an evocative and impressive first feature from writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga tracing both the journey north taken by so many from Mexico and Central America and the gang violence that stunts the lives of the many others who stay behind.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45673498-19155151.jpg "There is much strange beauty in the poverty and desperation captured by "Sin Nombre,\" an evocative and impressive first feature from writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga tracing both the journey north taken by so many from Mexico and Central America and the gang violence that stunts the lives of the many others who stay behind.")
Film CriticThere is much strange beauty in the poverty and desperation captured by "Sin Nombre," an evocative and impressive first feature from writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga tracing both the journey north taken by so many from Mexico and Central America and the...Tags: Mexico, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Issues, Movies, Crimes
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It's nervous-making time at Sundance
![<a href="http://www.olympuspics.com/">Veteran Los Angeles film producer Leslie Urdang</a> stands among the most fortunate independent filmmakers. One of 1,026 submissions, Urdang's low-budget "Adam," an uplifting love story featuring a man with Asperger's syndrome, was announced Wednesday as part of the lineup of titles competing in January's <a href="http://festival.sundance.org/2009/">Sundance Film Festival,</a> which programmers say could be more upbeat and accessible than recent gatherings.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43709396-03150456.jpg "<a href="http://www.olympuspics.com/\">Veteran Los Angeles film producer Leslie Urdang</a> stands among the most fortunate independent filmmakers. One of 1,026 submissions, Urdang's low-budget \"Adam,\" an uplifting love story featuring a man with Asperger's syndrome, was announced Wednesday as part of the lineup of titles competing in January's <a href=\"http://festival.sundance.org/2009/\">Sundance Film Festival,</a> which programmers say could be more upbeat and accessible than recent gatherings.")
Veteran Los Angeles film producer Leslie Urdang stands among the most fortunate independent filmmakers. One of 1,026 submissions, Urdang's low-budget "Adam," an uplifting love story featuring a man with Asperger's syndrome, was announced Wednesday as part...Tags: California, Bottle Shock (movie), Michael Cera, The Cove (movie), Tickets
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Crossing borders with 'Sin Nombre'
![In the shattered calm of the Mexican night, sitting atop a railroad tanker car, Cary Joji Fukunaga didn't yet know that a man was being murdered. But he'd heard the screams, gunshots and shouts in Spanish of "Bandits!" and he was bracing to make a run for it, if need be. ¶ It was summer 2005, and Fukunaga was researching the screenplay for his first feature film, "Sin Nombre," the harrowing but uplifting saga of a Honduran girl and a Mexican ex-gang banger trying to train-hop illegally into the United States. ¶ Most aspiring auteurs probably would've drafted that story while safely ensconced in their Brooklyn brownstone or Santa Monica dingbat. But Fukunaga, a 31-year-old Oakland native who writes and directs movies as if he were practicing an extreme sport (he once dreamed of being a pro snowboarder) insisted on experiencing firsthand the hazards and terrors confronted by tens of thousands of economic refugees from south of the border every year. ¶ So he set off for southern Mexico to ride the rails for several weeks, braving foul weather, marauding thugs and the constant danger of falling off and being swept under the trains' limb-severing wheels. "It felt like being a hobo in the '30s," he says, hunching his slender, 6-foot-plus frame behind a metal desk in the NoHo offices of Focus Features. ¶ In the process, Fukunaga, who grew up in Northern California but has lived in New York for the last 7 1/2 years, has crafted a significant new addition to the growing corpus of movies dealing with the Latin American immigrant experience, including Gregory Nava's "El Norte" (1983), Joshua Marston's "Maria Full of Grace" (2004) and Patricia Riggen's 2008 film "La Misma Luna" ("Under the Same Moon").](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45400150-06131327.jpg "In the shattered calm of the Mexican night, sitting atop a railroad tanker car, Cary Joji Fukunaga didn't yet know that a man was being murdered. But he'd heard the screams, gunshots and shouts in Spanish of "Bandits!\" and he was bracing to make a run for it, if need be. ¶ It was summer 2005, and Fukunaga was researching the screenplay for his first feature film, \"Sin Nombre,\" the harrowing but uplifting saga of a Honduran girl and a Mexican ex-gang banger trying to train-hop illegally into the United States. ¶ Most aspiring auteurs probably would've drafted that story while safely ensconced in their Brooklyn brownstone or Santa Monica dingbat. But Fukunaga, a 31-year-old Oakland native who writes and directs movies as if he were practicing an extreme sport (he once dreamed of being a pro snowboarder) insisted on experiencing firsthand the hazards and terrors confronted by tens of thousands of economic refugees from south of the border every year. ¶ So he set off for southern Mexico to ride the rails for several weeks, braving foul weather, marauding thugs and the constant danger of falling off and being swept under the trains' limb-severing wheels. \"It felt like being a hobo in the '30s,\" he says, hunching his slender, 6-foot-plus frame behind a metal desk in the NoHo offices of Focus Features. ¶ In the process, Fukunaga, who grew up in Northern California but has lived in New York for the last 7 1/2 years, has crafted a significant new addition to the growing corpus of movies dealing with the Latin American immigrant experience, including Gregory Nava's \"El Norte\" (1983), Joshua Marston's \"Maria Full of Grace\" (2004) and Patricia Riggen's 2008 film \"La Misma Luna\" (\"Under the Same Moon\").")
In the shattered calm of the Mexican night, sitting atop a railroad tanker car, Cary Joji Fukunaga didn't yet know that a man was being murdered. But he'd heard the screams, gunshots and shouts in Spanish of "Bandits!" and he was bracing to make a run for...Tags: Family, Illegal Immigrants, NoHo, Texas, Film Festivals
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Movie review: Sin Nombre -- 4 out of 5 stars
![The extraordinary Sin Nombre strips much of the sentiment from the classic "illegal immigrant" tale. The heroes and villains of this are all Mexican -- even the shouts of warning, "La Migra!" (Immigration!), are about Mexican immigration agents. The standard-issue immigrant odyssey becomes a brutal and brutish gangland thriller in this film, with intersecting lives converging on the trek to El Norte -- the U.S.](http://media.trb.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-05/46798882-08105313-300175.jpg "The extraordinary Sin Nombre strips much of the sentiment from the classic "illegal immigrant\" tale. The heroes and villains of this are all Mexican -- even the shouts of warning, \"La Migra!\" (Immigration!), are about Mexican immigration agents. The standard-issue immigrant odyssey becomes a brutal and brutish gangland thriller in this film, with intersecting lives converging on the trek to El Norte -- the U.S.")
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticThe extraordinary Sin Nombre strips much of the sentiment from the classic "illegal immigrant" tale. The heroes and villains of this are all Mexican -- even the shouts of warning, "La Migra!" (Immigration!), are about Mexican immigration agents. The...Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Illegal Immigrants, Documentary (genre), Crimes, New Jersey
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'Sin Nombre' director spent 6 years on the harrowing saga
Sentinel movie criticIt was a horrific image in the modern immigration saga -- May 15, 2003, 19 immigrants left locked in a truck trailer in Victoria, Texas, died. "That got my attention," says filmmaker Cary Fukunaga. Although he had never made a feature film, Fukunaga...Tags: Mexico, Movies, Texas, New Jersey, Immigration
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