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Beloved
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 16, 1998 To see "Beloved," all two hours and 52 minutes of it, is to understand at once all its confounding contradictions. Visible is both why it took 10 years to reach the screen and why star and driving force Oprah Winfrey would...Tags: Minority Groups, Thandie Newton, Toni Morrison, Kentucky, Danny Glover
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Scare Tactics
Courant Film CriticMore than 30 minutes into "Alien," Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic, the creature that gives the film its title has not yet had a close-up. In fact, it has not been glimpsed at all. The fact that audiences are pinned to their seats and clutching...Tags: Alien (movie), San Francisco, Dining and Drinking, Tippi Hedren, Entertainment
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'The Manchurian Candidate'
Times Staff WriterPulp is powerful. The strength of sensational material joined to excellent acting, superior filmmaking and uncanny political relevance has made "The Manchurian Candidate" into exceptionally intelligent entertainment and a high point of director...Tags: Frank Sinatra, New York, Washington (U.S. state), Entertainment, Death
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'Tully'
Times Staff Writer"I don't like thinking of people as types," says one of the characters in "Tully," director and co-writer Hilary Birmingham's impressive debut film. "I think it's lazy. I believe people can surprise you." "Tully" does just that. Its passion for...Tags: Nebraska, Julianne Nicholson, Movies, O. Henry, Joe Namath
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Outside Ozona
FOR THE TIMESFriday December 18, 1998 Like Jonathan Demme's "Handle With Care" (a.k.a. "Citizens Band") or even the old cult fave "Vanishing Point," J.S. Cardone's "Outside Ozona" is that customized species of road movie in which the characters are spokes and...Tags: Penelope Ann Miller, Movies, Radio Industry, Gore Vidal, Kevin Costner
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On a screen near you ...
Tomorrow - The Agronomist: Jonathan Demme, keeping his hand in documentaries and pursuing his fascination with Haiti (previously reflected in a CD compilation of Haitian music), tells the story of the volatile Caribbean nation through the dissident...Tags: Christianity, Quentin Tarantino, John Cho, Jet Li, Abraham Benrubi
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The Opportunists
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 18, 2000 Given the number of indifferent films that leave the Sundance Film Festival loaded with honors, it's something of a shock to come across a small gem that played the event but somehow slipped in under everyone's radar. That's...Tags: Christopher Walken, Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment, Film Festivals, Vera Farmiga
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Fall Movie Preview
The Hartford CourantBetween the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...Tags: James Franco, Thandie Newton, Quentin Tarantino, Emily Watson, Film Festivals
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It's a wrap for 'Hairspray'
Of The Morning CallIt was a wrap last week for John Waters' "Hairspray," filmed in part at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom, South Whitehall Township, last month. Filming for the feature movie was completed Thursday in Baltimore, Md., where the 1962 teen musical comedy...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, David Letterman, Los Angeles, Arizona, Comedy (genre)
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Walter Mosley's Secret Stories
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMidafternoon, and we are sailing. The wide span of Century Boulevard seems vast in its possibilities, a seductive expanse with room to roam or expand. At quick glimpse, it is sparkling, but a brief pause at a light reveals something quite different--a...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Civil Rights, Christianity, Minority Groups, New York
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That Thing You Do!
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 4, 1996 Tom Hanks understands likable. More than that, he practically owns the quality. Now, with blithe assurance and considerable success he's transferred title over to "That Thing You Do!," his cheerful and high-spirited debut as a...Tags: Ethan Embry, Music Industry, Liv Tyler, Entertainment, Winona Ryder
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Mandela
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 21, 1997 When long-exiled South African filmmaker Jo Menell, producers Jonathan Demme and Chris Blackwell and co-director Angus Gibson joined forces to make the stirring Oscar-nominated documentary "Mandela," they decided to abide by...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Hugh Masekela, Cinema Industry, Movies
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