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Cannes Film Festival: Steven Spielberg heads jury
“We’re always sitting in personal private judgment of the films we see,” Steven Spielberg said Wednesday, in Wednesday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference introducing this year’s nine-person jury headed by Spielberg....
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Arts and Culture, Taxi Driver (movie), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (movie), Festive Events
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Al Pacino and his 'Stand Up Guys' among the stars slotted for CIFF
With its founder Michael Kutza nearing his half-century mark as leader, the Chicago International Film Festival announced its 48th edition slate Thursday. Heavily concentrated, as it has been in recent years, at the downtown AMC River East 21 multiplex,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Holy Motors (movie), Entertainment, Millennium Park
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'Cabin in the Woods' provides snark and scares ✭✭ 1/2
A peppy horror mash-up with existential airs, "The Cabin in the Woods"goes completely nuts in its final half-hour and is all the better for it. Writers lie about this sort of thing constantly, but according to screenwriters Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard,...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Entertainment, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Halle Berry, Festive Events, Zac Efron, Central Intelligence Agency
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'Silver Linings Playbook' snags Spirit awards
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The persistent irony of the Film Independent Spirit Awards is that as much as they're positioned as the DIY antidote to the Academy Awards, the indie film with the most Oscars recognition almost invariably reaps the greatest...
Tags: Film Independent Spirit Awards, Robert De Niro, Safety Not Guaranteed (movie), Arts and Culture, Steven Soderbergh
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Love and death shine through in 'Amour' ★★★★
We know how "Amour" will end, at least for one of its characters. Writer-director Michael Haneke opens his film with a scene of Paris firefighters breaking into the spacious, eerily silent apartment belonging to two retired musicians, played by Jean-...
Tags: Isabelle Huppert, The White Ribbon (movie), Alzheimer's Disease, Music Industry, Music
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'Amour' review: Bien or tres bien?
*** (out of four) Theoretically all movies are subjective, but I suspect feelings about Cannes' top prizewinner “Amour” will be a particular matter of taste. No doubt, it's an intimate tale of devotion from Michael Haneke (“Funny...
Tags: Isabelle Huppert, Stroke, Movies, Amour (movie), Entertainment
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Predictions: 2013 Oscar nominees
This Thursday brings my annual morning of being excited and nervous and telling myself I won’t yell at the TV. And then doing it anyway. That’s right, it’s the Oscar nominations, for a change announced before the Golden Globes, not...
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Sally Field, Matthew McConaughey, Ang Lee, Academy Awards
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Oscar nominations: 'Lincoln' leads Academy Award contenders with 12
With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning. “Zero Dark Thirty” was one of nine films given the best picture...
Tags: Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, Sally Field, Ang Lee, Academy Awards
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Michael Haneke goes in close for the anguish of 'Amour'
Michael Haneke's devastating "Amour" opens Friday in Chicago. And since its Cannes Film Festival premiere in May, this tale of a long-married man and woman in their 80s, tested by illness and the limits of their own compassion, has moved audiences in a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The White Ribbon (movie), Film Festivals, Festive Events, Cannes Film Festival
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Rob Zombie on new album, tour, cult film gem ‘The Lords of Salem’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWalking by the gated façade of the Los Angeles Theatre downtown, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the glamor of ...... -
Oscars 2013 winners: “Argo” takes home top prize
Channel Guide MagazineOscars 2013 winners will always enjoy their triumphs, despite the fact that they'll forever be associated with the year that Seth MacFarlane hosted. No, he didn't turn it into “Family Guy goes to the Oscars,” per se — although those...
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