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Dino De Laurentiis, storied movie producer, dies at 91
![Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian movie producer who helped resurrect his nation's film industry after World War II and for more than six decades produced films as diverse as the 1954 Federico Fellini classic "La Strada" and the 1976 remake of "King Kong," has died. He was 91.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/57559845-11211340-187105.jpg "Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian movie producer who helped resurrect his nation's film industry after World War II and for more than six decades produced films as diverse as the 1954 Federico Fellini classic "La Strada\" and the 1976 remake of \"King Kong,\" has died. He was 91.")
Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian movie producer who helped resurrect his nation's film industry after World War II and for more than six decades produced films as diverse as the 1954 Federico Fellini classic "La Strada" and the 1976 remake of...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Bankruptcy, Vittorio de Sica, Jonathan Demme, John Huston
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Missing Nemo: Berkeley Breathed says new movies are missing magic and drowning in pixels [UPDATED]
The Hero ComplexGUEST ESSAY BY BERKELEY BREATHED Last week, at the precise moment on screen that millions of screaming, tanned Angelenos tumbled down into a mile-deep cataclysmic crack in the planet’s exploding crust along with their high-rise condos and labradoodles,... -
'Valhalla Rising' is itching for a fight
Brand XOne of my least pleasant childhood movie memories is of seeing Richard Fleischer's 1958 “The Vikings” on the big screen. The sight of an eagle clawing out Kirk Douglas's left eye was a bit much for my tender 8-year-old sensibilities. (Did it actu... -
New 'Fantastic Voyage' Gets a Director
Zap2It.comAs a director, Roland Emmerich has tackled the aliens, the environment, giant lizards, the British and now he's ready to go inside the human body. According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has recruited Emmerich to direct the studio's remake of the 1966...Tags: Roland Emmerich
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'Che' stars Benicio Del Toro, Demian Bichir
![Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour "Che" is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol. Some would argue way, way outside the peace symbol. Whatever your political sympathies, Soderbergh's project is likely to exasperate, less for what's there than for what it excludes. It's a triptych with the middle panel missing. Why ignore such a provocative part of any subject's life, the one in which idealistic political theory is tested by controversial, bloody practice?](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-01/44541037-15153630.jpg "Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour "Che\" is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol. Some would argue way, way outside the peace symbol. Whatever your political sympathies, Soderbergh's project is likely to exasperate, less for what's there than for what it excludes. It's a triptych with the middle panel missing. Why ignore such a provocative part of any subject's life, the one in which idealistic political theory is tested by controversial, bloody practice?")
Tribune criticDirector Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour "Che" is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol. Some would argue way, way outside the peace symbol....Tags: Criminals, Terrence Malick, Cuba, Wars and Interventions, Apples
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Richard Fleischer, 89; Director of '20,000 Leagues', 'Soylent Green', Dies
Richard Fleischer picked up the phone more than half a century ago and was stunned. Walt Disney was on the line, asking him to direct "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." "You do know who I am?" Fleischer recalled asking. His father, animation pioneer Max...Tags: Television, Cinema Industry, Tony Curtis, Family, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Man of the Year'
Times Staff WriterThe split screen is almost as old as the movies and has been put to imaginative use in films as diverse as Abel Gance's silent "Napoleon" with its wide-screen triptych, Richard Fleischer's "The Boston Strangler" and Andy Warhol's "Chelsea Girls." With...Tags: California, Andy Warhol, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians
Nov 12, 2010
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Nov 19, 2009
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Aug 16, 2007
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Mar 27, 2006
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Dec 5, 2003
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