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Romance, Violence and Tokyo in Abbas Kiarostami's New Film, "Like Someone In Love"
Like Someone in Love Directed by Abbas Kiarostami "Like Someone in Love", the jazz standard that Abbas Kiarostami's new film takes its name from, is the kind of love song that can easily qualify as a song about insanity, depending on how cynical...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Ella Fitzgerald, Like Someone in Love (movie), Movies
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'Like Someone in Love' a Tokyo story of love and lies ★★★ 1/2
In "Certified Copy," from Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami, a relationship blossoms and then fades under the Tuscan sun, though the story keeps changing its rules of engagement. The couple at the center, we presume, are strangers getting to know...
Tags: Entertainment, Certified Copy (movie), Film Festivals, Cannes Film Festival, Like Someone in Love (movie)
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Review: 'Like Someone in Love' is elegant and mysterious
The first words in Abbas Kiarostami's sinuous and beguiling new drama are "I'm not lying to you," and they're a lie. There'll be more equivocation and feints, more quietly disorienting shifts as the Tokyo-set story's events play out among an unlikely...
Tags: Entertainment, Ella Fitzgerald, Certified Copy (movie), Like Someone in Love (movie), Movies
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Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' hooks up with Magnolia Pictures
If there were some kind of cinematic mad lib invented for maximum potential art house outrage, Danish filmmaker/provocateur Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” -- with a cast including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma...Tags: Entertainment, Berlin International Film Festival, Willem Dafoe, Movies, Antichrist (movie)
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What's behind Jafar Panahi's 'Closed Curtain'?
On Tuesday night at the Berlin Film Festival, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi will debut his new movie “Closed Curtain.” Panahi himself won’t be there to present it, of course; he remains under house arrest in Iran, and the premiere...
Tags: Entertainment, Berlin International Film Festival, Iran, Film Festivals, Cannes Film Festival
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Highlights of Chicago film fest travel far from Hollywood
In "Gimme the Loot," a loose, disarming bit of larceny — and one of the bright offerings of the 48th Chicago International Film Festival — director Adam Leon's Bronx-bred characters live to tag. Teenage graffiti artists on the run, the friends...
Tags: Leos Carax, Entertainment, Bahman Ghobadi, Chicago International Film Festival, Iran
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Cannes 2012: Actor Norman Lloyd remembers Hitchcock, Renoir
24 FramesAt a recent event at the Cannes Film Festival, actor Norman Lloyd reflected on his life's work and his famous collaborators, including Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir.... -
Iran's Kiarostami: I'm not rushing to shoot there again
24 FramesAs Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran continues to restrict free speech in the country, directors such as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi have to take other steps to make movies.... -
Home theater: 'Take This Waltz,' 'Certified Copy' offer off-beat romance
24 FramesSarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" tops the list of new films available this week on Video on Demand and DVD/Blu-ray. Fans of unusual, well made romances also might want to check out "Certified Copy."... -
Andy Klein's top 10 films of 2011
There are numerous inherent flaws and absurdities in the process of compiling Top 10s and Best ofs; nonetheless, here are my favorite films released in Los Angeles in the calendar year 2011. In my version of this imperfect exercise, “favorite”...Tags: Entertainment, Terrence Malick, Paddy Considine, Alexander Payne, Michel Hazanavicius
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DVD review: 'Certified Copy' looks at a mysterious relationship
My top-10 films from last year are slowly making their way to home video, the latest being this mysterious relationship drama from Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (“Taste of Cherry,” “Crimson Gold”) — certainly his most...
Tags: Entertainment, Blu-ray Discs, Certified Copy (movie), Drama (genre), DVDs
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En Cartelera: "A Separation" y "Albert Nobbs" con miras al Oscar
A Separation ***
Nunca antes en la historia del Oscar una película había despertado tanto consenso para recibir un premio como A Separation, drama iraní galardonado con el Globo de Oro al mejor filme extranjero que, probablemente, también ganará la...Tags: Iran, Akira Kurosawa, Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska
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