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'Anatomy of a Murder,' 'A Man Escaped': crime and punishment
Rather than concentrate on the execution of the crime, this week’s DVDs focus on what comes afterward: first the trial, then, for the unlucky, time behind bars. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including best picture, 1959’s “...
Tags: Otto Preminger, Physiology, Academy Awards, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., George C. Scott
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Around Town: 'Mean Streets' pays tribute to Fellini film
24 Frames."I Vitelloni," a 1953 semi-autobiographical drama about five male friends living in a small Italian town, is considered one of the watershed moments in Fedrico Fellini's career. The film is screening Friday through Wednesday at the New Beverly Cinema... -
Around Town: The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' gets a makeover
24 FramesThe 1968 animated Beatles musical "Yellow Submarine" has just been restored frame by frame and will screening Friday evening and Sunday afternoon at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre. The Beatles introduced the tune "All Together Now" in the... -
K.C. Johnson's Bulls mailbag
It's 72 degrees and sunny without a hint of humidity in LA. And I'm sitting in a dark, greasy diner downtown answering your questions. ust to clarify: I'm drinking black coffee, not something stronger. But, yes, some might call me loopy. I prefer to...Tags: Chicago Bulls, Bill Russell, National Hockey League, Thabo Sefolosha, Jackie Robinson
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Book review: 'Smothered in Hugs' by Dennis Cooper
Smothered in Hugs
Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries
Dennis Cooper
HarperPerennial: 378 pp., $14.99 paper
Critics are shaky cartographers, experimental scientists, evangelical missionaries and psychoanalysts of the artistic id. We forge a...Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Christian Slater, Crispin Glover, River Phoenix, Derek Jarman
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An earthy dreamer
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterObviously, Carlos Reygadas hasn't flown all this way from Madrid just to talk about oral sex. But lately it's been a tough subject for him to avoid. Ever since last summer, when the young Mexican writer-director's second feature film, "Batalla en el...Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Ingmar Bergman, New York, International Relations
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Go down, Crowley: The end of "Aegypt"
By Ed Park Though 20 years have passed between the publication of the start and finish of John Crowley's tetralogy "Aegypt" -- time enough, in publishing terms, for the oeuvre to take on the luster of the "Corpus Hermeticum" whose implications it relates...Tags: Fiction, Cults and Sects, Giordano Bruno, Harold Bloom, Death
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'Man Push Cart'
Special to The TimesEvery frame of the beautiful "Man Push Cart" expresses writer-director Ramin Bahrani's compassion for a street vendor (Ahmad Razvi), who before sunrise leaves his tiny Brooklyn apartment and heads for a warehouse from which he will pull his large, shiny...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), New York, Cinema Industry, Immigration, Entertainment
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'Elevator to the Gallows'
![As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major talents — director Louis Malle, star Jeanne Moreau, cinematographer Henri Decaë, musician Miles Davis — and achieved near-legendary results with all of them.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-07/18698331.jpg "As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows\" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major talents — director Louis Malle, star Jeanne Moreau, cinematographer Henri Decaë, musician Miles Davis — and achieved near-legendary results with all of them.")
Times Staff WriterAs beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major...Tags: Crimes, Los Angeles, Arts and Culture, Movies, Colorado
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'13 Tzameti'
Special to The TimesIn a town on the Normandy coast, a young man has been hired to replace some wooden attic beams in a house not far from the small apartment in which his immigrant Georgian family lives. He inadvertently rips a hole in a ceiling of the room below, whereupon...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Death, Georgia, Georgia
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'Tristram Shandy'
!["The idea of art as an expensive hunk of well-regulated area, both logical and magical," wrote film critic Manny Farber in his essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," "sits heavily over the talent of every modern painter." It sits even more heavily over the movies, which, as Farber argued in 1962, seem to get more puffed-up and pleased with themselves as "ever more desperate, ever more coordinated" studios do their best to embalm them in taste, importance and anxiously brokered compromise.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-02/21874131.jpg ""The idea of art as an expensive hunk of well-regulated area, both logical and magical,\" wrote film critic Manny Farber in his essay, \"White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art,\" \"sits heavily over the talent of every modern painter.\" It sits even more heavily over the movies, which, as Farber argued in 1962, seem to get more puffed-up and pleased with themselves as \"ever more desperate, ever more coordinated\" studios do their best to embalm them in taste, importance and anxiously brokered compromise.")
Times Staff Writer"The idea of art as an expensive hunk of well-regulated area, both logical and magical," wrote film critic Manny Farber in his essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," "sits heavily over the talent of every modern painter." It sits even more heavily...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Film Festivals, Laurence Sterne, Entertainment
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L'Enfant
Zap2It.com"L'Enfant," from Belgium's filmmaking brother team of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, isn't quite as exalted as their "Rosetta" and "La Promesse," but it's an anguished, then hopeful little miracle that towers over most of what's out there and confirms them...Tags: Documentary (genre), Samuel Beckett, Entertainment, Movies, Belgium
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