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Beyond the Clouds
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 3, 1999 In recent years, Italy's grand master, Michelangelo Antonioni, has been largely silenced by a 1985 stroke that has left his speech impaired but from which he otherwise recovered. In 1995, he returned to feature filmmaking...Tags: Cary Elwes, Cherry Jones, Television, Wim Wenders, Jeanne Moreau
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Love's Labour's Lost
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 9, 2000 Writing musical theater was not an option for William Shakespeare, but Kenneth Branagh hasn't let that trouble him. He's turned Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" into a 1930s-style romantic musical comedy, garnished with retro...Tags: Alicia Silverstone, Patrick Doyle, Bob Weinstein, Ginger Rogers, Alessandro Nivola
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Forget the Story--Action Rules 'Kiss of the Dragon'
TIMES FILM CRITIC"You know those movies, with Chinese guys kicking and screaming all the time?" a woman named Jessica asks in "Kiss of the Dragon." Yes, Jessica, we do know those movies, and this is one of them. The latest example of the mainstreaming of Asian action...Tags: Robert Mark Kamen, Drug Trafficking, Arts and Culture, Bridget Fonda, North Dakota
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Train of Life
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 5, 1999 With "Train of Life," writer-director Radu Mihaileanu came up with a clever premise, but you wish he'd played up its potential more for suspense than for broad ethnic humor. To give him credit, he does end on an unexpected...Tags: Comedy (genre), Nazi Party, Deportation, Movies, Extradition
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'East-West'
Times Staff WriterFriday April 7, 2000 Regis Wargnier's Oscar-nominated "East-West," a superb follow-up to his 1993 Oscar-winning "Indochine," takes the most somber of predicaments, and makes it involving, romantic and ultimately intensely suspenseful. In doing...Tags: Patrick Doyle, World War II (1939-1945), Simone Signoret, Sony Corp., Movies
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Cecil B. DeMented
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 11, 2000 What better place to launch a broadside at mindless mainstream movies than from within a mainstream movie? John Waters, Baltimore's master of subversive cinema, knows this better than anyone as he takes aim at big-deal, big-...Tags: The Happiest News!, Alicia Witt, John Waters, Gaming, Ricki Lake
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Butterfly
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 16, 2000 "Butterfly" takes us back in time to a picturesque Spanish village in Galicia where life seems idyllic. People have their differences and their inevitable losses and disappointments, yet harmony reigns, and in the town's daily...Tags: Spain, Movies, Career and Workplace, Cinema Industry, Miramax Films
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Ratcatcher
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday November 1, 2000 Bleak childhoods make for the best cinema, and "Ratcatcher" stands at the head of the class. From acknowledged favorites like Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" to underappreciated works like the Robert De Niro-...Tags: John Miller, Leonardo DiCaprio, Francois Truffaut, Cinema Industry, Tommy Flanagan
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Kippur
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 1, 2000 Amos Gitai's "Kippur" is a classic war film, at once elegiac and immediate, that takes you smack into the chaos of combat yet is marked by a detached perspective. Already acclaimed at major festivals, the film is...Tags: Atonement (movie), Injuries and Wounds, Documentary (genre), Movies, Fatigue
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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: Dining and Drinking, Thomas Hardy, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley, Nastassja Kinski
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Baise Moi
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 1, 2001 Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's "Baise Moi" (translated by the distributor as "Rape Me") imagines an ultra-savage and nihilistic Thelma and Louise on a deadly sex-charged rampage across France. Nadine (Karen Bach), a...Tags: Chiron Corporation, French Literature, France, Movies, Rape
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'Confusion of Genders'
Ilan Duran Cohen's "Confusion of Genders" is certainly sexy, entertaining and provocative — in several senses of the word — but it's also tiresome as only a French film can be when everyone in it has only sex and amour on his or her mind and...Tags: Satire (genre), Sex, Movies, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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