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South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition
TIMES STAFF WRITERTuesday February 22, 2000 When renowned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked upon a bold attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the South Pole in 1914, among the crew of 27 aboard his sailing ship Endurance was the already...Tags: Bruce Willis, Liam Neeson, Meg Ryan, Australia (movie), Documentary (genre)
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Beautiful People
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 3, 2000 Bosnian-born filmmaker Jasmin Dizdar sets the tone for his bravura allegory "Beautiful People" right at the start, as two men, one a shaggy Croat (Faruk Pruti), the other a swarthy Serb (Dado Jehan), recognize each other on a...Tags: Liam Neeson, Health, Cinema Industry, Robert Downey Jr., Dennis Farina
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Wonder Boys
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday February 23, 2000 Distracted and dissipated dope-smoking man of letters Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) has known bad days. Yes, he admits as "Wonder Boys" opens, his wife has left him that very morning, "but wives had left me before." Yes,...Tags: Liam Neeson, Robert Downey Jr., Cinema Industry, Joe DiMaggio, Tobey Maguire
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Judy Berlin
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday February 25, 2000 Eric Mendelsohn's "Judy Berlin" is a comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection, rueful yet radiant, every moment calibrated with exquisite precision for just the right effect. And yet it never seems less than...Tags: Liam Neeson, Robert Downey Jr., Cinema Industry, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Julie Kavner
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L'Ennui (Boredom)
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 15, 1999 Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...Tags: William H. Macy, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, Karen Allen, Cate Blanchett
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'Condo Painting' Presents an Intriguing Look at Artist
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 17, 2000 John McNaughton's documentary "Condo Painting" sounds like a put-on, and in a way it is, even though that title refers not to an apartment house getting a face lift but to a witty study of artist George Condo at work. A boyish-...Tags: Michael Vartan, Devon Sawa, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Waits, Dennis Farina
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'The Green Mile'
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday December 10, 1999 The face of Hollywood today is the face of power. Director's power. The power of special effects. Together, they can create wonders, but if unchecked they can also lead to things that are not so wonderful, things that are...Tags: James Cromwell, The Shawshank Redemption (movie), Fred Astaire, Cinema Industry, Sex
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'Scorpion King,' Princess in Disguise Use War and Wile
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday releases: "The Scorpion King" (PG-13)--"I've come for the woman--and your head." That's a typical line in "The Scorpion King," the so-awful-it's-fun prequel to "The Mummy Returns" (PG-13, 2001). Celebrity wrestler The Rock reprises his role from...Tags: Andie MacDowell, Murder, Ben Chaplin, Romance (genre), Crimes
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Painless Sting
Times Staff WriterSomeone's gone to the trouble of making a comic-book version of "The Scorpion King," but it's not clear why they bothered. The movie itself is a live-action cartoon, a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together...Tags: Vince McMahon, Russell Crowe, Prince (music artist), Sting, Bernard Hill
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'D.E.B.S.'
Times Staff WriterIronic sampling is par for the course in teen comedies today, especially when the comedy in question draws its humor from the stylistic conventions of silly movies and television shows created before we were all postmodern. Parody has become so widespread...Tags: Television, Alias (tv program), Australia (movie), Education, Teen-agers
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Eye On The Perfect Hit?
Courant Film CriticVengeful Siths! Marauding Crusaders! Monster mother-in-laws! Outer-galactic space oddities! Not-so-wild wild animals! Political intrigue! And Allied pigeons! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tots and tykes, it's spring at the multiplex, and there is, at...Tags: Michael Vartan, Bob Hoskins, Indiana Hoosiers, Steven Soderbergh, Steve McQueen
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'Planet of the Apes'
Times Film Critic"Planet of the Apes" is the least surprising movie of the summer. It's not only that after the original 1968 film, four sequels plus two television series, everyone who cares knows the underlying material; it's also that the sensibility of its director is...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Politics, Justice and Rights, Tim Roth, Estella Warren
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