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Supporting or lead role? It's anyone's call
Special to the TimesWhen "Traffic's" Benicio Del Toro beat out Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks for the Screen Actors Guild best-actor award earlier this month, there was a good deal of head scratching. Not that he didn't deserve the award, but if the Academy of Motion Picture...Tags: Jared Leto, Tom Cruise, Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro
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Producing films, by way of Jersey
Times Staff WriterSeeing him sitting in a cramped trailer on a film set, dressed in all black except for a pair of purple flower-patterned socks, his cell phone constantly chirping, it's hard to imagine that Michael Shamberg has ever been anything but a movie producer....Tags: Arts and Culture, Quentin Tarantino, Culture, Academy Awards, Fiction
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Cannes tries to put 'Bunny' hop behind it
Chicago Tribune movie criticCan Cannes bounce back from "The Brown Bunny"? Or will Michael Moore's already controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" dominate the international movie showcase, which begins again Wednesday on the southern coast of France? Last year's Cannes Film Festival --...Tags: Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, France, Festive Events, Sean Penn
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Winning locations
Times Staff WritersEven though Los Angeles has been the center of movie making for most of a century, you wouldn't always know it to look at the movies. Elaborate sets, sound stages and backdrops could transform Los Angeles into any place in the world. That Welsh mining...Tags: California, Diane Keaton, Vehicles, Ghost (movie), Tom Cruise
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'Band of Outsiders' (1964)
Times Film CriticIn the thirty-five years since its American release, Jean-Luc Godard's lyrical gangster romance "Band of Outsiders" has been as difficult to revisit as it is impossible to forget. Starting today, the first part of that equation is going to change. Rialto...Tags: Anna Karina, Quentin Tarantino, Jimmy Johnson, Jean-Luc Godard, San Francisco
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Winter Movies Offer Hope
Courant Film CriticAt the moment, Hartford's movie-lovers can savor some of the best pictures of 2002, released at the end of the year in major markets and now spreading to the provinces. Still, it is a long way to the start of the next big movie season, which begins May...Tags: Paul Hunter, Jamie Kennedy, Romeo Miller, Amanda Bynes, John Goodman
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Jackie Brown
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday December 24, 1997 Unlikely as it sounds, "Jackie Brown" is Quentin Tarantino's idea of a nice film. Not that it's everyone's idea of nice: This hotbed of industrial-strength profanity isn't headed for the Disney Channel any time soon....Tags: Bridget Fonda, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson
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Playing God
FOR THE TIMESFriday October 17, 1997 Normally, when the star of a hit TV series is tested with the lead role in a major studio movie, film critics raise their noses and wonder, "Can he make the leap?" In the case of "X-Files" double-Emmy nominee David Duchovny,...Tags: Television, Drama (genre), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, Samuel L. Jackson
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An interview with Jedi Jackson
Orlando SentinelSAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Here are a few things you pick up from Samuel L. Jackson by interviewing him a few times throughout the years. He's serious. He's tall, 6 feet 3. He's 53, was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn. The "L"...Tags: Roger Moore, Arts and Culture, Hayden Christensen, Culture, Academy Awards
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Liar's Poker
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 29, 1999 Elliptical and stylized, sleek-looking yet lame, "Liar's Poker" is a modern-day noir cloaked in attitude and atmosphere and very little else. It plays like a young filmmaker's attempt to see how much he could strip from his...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Crime, Law and Justice, Quentin Tarantino, Movies, Ron Santo
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday December 1, 1995 "Do they still have gangsters?" the beautiful Dagney asks Jimmy the Saint, trying to figure out who or what he is. "Say 'You dirty rat." Jimmy can't handle the classic James Cagney line, but it's the only time that...Tags: Bob Weinstein, Steve Buscemi, Sex, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn
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Get Shorty
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 20, 1995 * "The guy's a crook. " * "So? This town he should fit right in." --"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard * The town, of course, is Hollywood, and the genial premise of Leonard's novel and the diverting...Tags: Danny DeVito, Barry Sonnenfeld, Bette Midler, Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Farina
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