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'Ratatouille'
![Brad Bird's 'Ratatouille' is so audacious you have to fall in love with its unlikely hero. If we are living in a golden age of animation — and we are — one of the reasons is writer-director Brad Bird. That's somewhat ironic, because as his new "Ratatouille" demonstrates, what makes Bird so unusual is that he doesn't really think of himself as an animator at all.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-06/30838055.jpg "Brad Bird's 'Ratatouille' is so audacious you have to fall in love with its unlikely hero. If we are living in a golden age of animation — and we are — one of the reasons is writer-director Brad Bird. That's somewhat ironic, because as his new "Ratatouille\" demonstrates, what makes Bird so unusual is that he doesn't really think of himself as an animator at all.")
Times Staff WriterBrad Bird's 'Ratatouille' is so audacious you have to fall in love with its unlikely hero. If we are living in a golden age of animation — and we are — one of the reasons is writer-director Brad Bird. That's somewhat ironic, because as his new...Tags: Animation (genre), Restaurants, Pixar Animation Studios, Entertainment, Dining and Drinking
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'Hotel for Dogs' stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Don Cheadle
Tribune criticSo many canines are going potty in the nation's multiplexes this month, what with "Marley & Me" and now the ensemble bowser adventure "Hotel for Dogs," I wouldn't be surprised if Lars Von Trier re-released "Dogville" just for fun. He'd make $10 million...Tags: PG Rated Movies, Gene Hackman, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hotels and Accommodations
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Brew master
In a java-loving world dominated by Starbucks and flavored with local roasters ranging from Metropolis and Casteel to Stewarts and PapaNicholas, Zell has carved a niche for Intelligentsia based on his coffee — and coffee-drinking —...Tags: New York City, Kenya, California, Music Theater, Philosophy
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'Hotel for Dogs' crew makes treasure from trash
The clever canine stars of the family comedy "Hotel for Dogs" had to learn more than sit, stay, fetch and play dead. They had to become adept at sitting on toilets, herding mechanical sheep and operating a vending machine filled with shoes. "It wasn't...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, Dog (animal), Entertainment, Death
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'Hannibal Rising'
Special to The TimesLacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog story, a rambling, directionless yarn whose promising beginnings have been eclipsed by its stubborn failure to end. A...Tags: Anthony Hopkins, Crimes, Sam Adams, Criminals, Rhys Ifans
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'Our Daily Bread'
!["Our Daily Bread" has an astounding eye for wonders and horrors, the awesome and the awful, for hidden sights, untold stories and key aspects of our world that we rarely get to see and might not necessarily want to. Once witnessed, however, these things cannot be forgotten.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-02/28038491.jpg ""Our Daily Bread\" has an astounding eye for wonders and horrors, the awesome and the awful, for hidden sights, untold stories and key aspects of our world that we rarely get to see and might not necessarily want to. Once witnessed, however, these things cannot be forgotten.")
Times Staff Writer"Our Daily Bread" has an astounding eye for wonders and horrors, the awesome and the awful, for hidden sights, untold stories and key aspects of our world that we rarely get to see and might not necessarily want to. Once witnessed, however, these things...Tags: Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Cinema Industry, Breads, Movies
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'Final Destination 2'
Times Staff WriterIn the first "Final Destination," 40 high school seniors from a Manhattan suburb take off from JFK for a 10-day Paris field trip with four teachers. The jet barely leaves the ground before it explodes, killing everybody aboard. The catch was that the...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Disasters and Accidents, A.J. Cook, Dario Argento, Disasters
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Fate and Charm Collide With a Fresh Twist in 'Happenstance'
TIMES STAFF WRITERLaurent Firode's "Happenstance" arrives as a welcome Christmas gift from France, a musing on how character and fate--and sometimes pure chance--collide in myriad ways beyond our imaginings. It brims with the charm, wisdom and light touch that have...Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Audrey Tautou, Entertainment, Cinema Industry, Romance (genre)
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Inspector Gadget
FOR THE TIMESFriday July 23, 1999 Maybe it's a generational thing, but "Inspector Gadget," the animated adventure series that flourished in the '70s and '80s, never quite caught my fancy in the way that, say, its lesser-known contemporary, "Danger Mouse," did....Tags: Dabney Coleman, L. Michael White, PG Rated Movies, Matthew Broderick, D.L. Hughley
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Black Cat, White Cat
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 17, 1999 It's not surprising that master director Emir Kusturica, from a former Yugoslav republic, would seek a change of pace after his 1995 Cannes prizewinner, "Underground," a controversial, bleakly absurdist epic take on half...Tags: Assault, Casablanca (movie), Arizona, Crimes, Documentary (genre)
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Galapagos
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 12, 1999 A wondrous blending of art and science, the Imax 3-D film "Galapagos" finds Carole Baldwin, a Smithsonian marine biologist, retracing Darwin's 1835 journey to the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador that yielded his theory of...Tags: Science and Technology, Kenneth Branagh, AOL LLC, Peter Guber, Science
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Arabian Knight
TIMES STAFF WRITERMonday August 28, 1995 "Arabian Knight" is a charmer for children but is a bit too simple a tale to hold adult attention. However, parents who go with their kids cannot fail to be blown away by the sheer beauty and sophistication of the film's...Tags: Crimes, Cinema Industry, Vincent Price, Jennifer Beals, Theft
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