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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Akira Kurosawa, James Cagney, Warren Beatty, Buster Keaton, James Robert Thompson
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Double-barreled firepower
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's one of the most urgent questions facing men of a certain age today, particularly in Latin American countries, a question that strikes at one's core values and affirms one's identity as a soccer-mad, tequila-swigging, red-blooded varon. That question...Tags: Jeanne Moreau, Cheshire, Indiana Jones (fictional character), Clint Eastwood, Transportation
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'Once Upon a Time in Mexico'
![With his sloppy, frantically busy action film "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," Robert Rodriguez enters the realm of pure exploitation with a bang. Make that several thousand bangs.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-09/9361882.jpg "With his sloppy, frantically busy action film "Once Upon a Time in Mexico,\" Robert Rodriguez enters the realm of pure exploitation with a bang. Make that several thousand bangs.")
Times Staff WriterWith his sloppy, frantically busy action film "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," Robert Rodriguez enters the realm of pure exploitation with a bang. Make that several thousand bangs. As loud as any Chinese New Year, with the rat-a-tat-tat of heavy artillery...Tags: Movies, Antonio Banderas, Politics, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke
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The Way of the Gun
FOR THE TIMESFriday September 8, 2000 Since Quentin Tarantino has been making himself scarce--and Sergio Leone is dead, Howard Hawks is dead and John Woo is on Cruise control--Christopher McQuarrie has decided to fill the enormous void with "The Way of the Gun,"...Tags: Movies, Benicio Del Toro, Entertainment, Death, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Kill Bill Vol. 2'
![An adrenaline shot to the movie heart, soul and mind, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is a blast of pure pop pleasure. The second half of Tarantino's long-gestating epic, "Vol. 2" firmly lays to rest the doubts raised by "Vol. 1" as to whether the filmmaker had retained his chops after years of silence and, as important, had anything to offer beyond pyrotechnics and bloodshed. Tarantino does have something to say, although most of what he does have to say can be boiled down to two words: Movies <I>rock</I>.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-04/12252148.jpg "An adrenaline shot to the movie heart, soul and mind, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 2\" is a blast of pure pop pleasure. The second half of Tarantino's long-gestating epic, \"Vol. 2\" firmly lays to rest the doubts raised by \"Vol. 1\" as to whether the filmmaker had retained his chops after years of silence and, as important, had anything to offer beyond pyrotechnics and bloodshed. Tarantino does have something to say, although most of what he does have to say can be boiled down to two words: Movies <I>rock</I>.")
Times Staff WriterAn adrenaline shot to the movie heart, soul and mind, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is a blast of pure pop pleasure. The second half of Tarantino's long-gestating epic, "Vol. 2" firmly lays to rest the doubts raised by "Vol. 1" as to whether...Tags: Genres, Daryl Hannah, Entertainment, Roger Corman, Miramax Films
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'Kill Bill Vol. 1'
![Blood doesn't just flow in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 1" — it splatters and spurts and rises in fountains so baroque and luxuriant that there are moments when it seems as if it were raining red. It isn't, but only because there's little in this private fetish of a movie that relates to the natural world. Despite the occasional glimpse of the not-so-great outdoors, the first half of Tarantino's two-part anti-epic isn't about life — it's about movie-made death in all its spectacular and foolish excess.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-10/9742874.jpg "Blood doesn't just flow in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 1\" — it splatters and spurts and rises in fountains so baroque and luxuriant that there are moments when it seems as if it were raining red. It isn't, but only because there's little in this private fetish of a movie that relates to the natural world. Despite the occasional glimpse of the not-so-great outdoors, the first half of Tarantino's two-part anti-epic isn't about life — it's about movie-made death in all its spectacular and foolish excess.")
Times Staff WriterBlood doesn't just flow in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 1" — it splatters and spurts and rises in fountains so baroque and luxuriant that there are moments when it seems as if it were raining red. It isn't, but only because there's little...Tags: Daryl Hannah, Organized Crime, New York, Entertainment, Miramax Films
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'Hero'
![There are a lot of on-screen heroes in "Hero," so many exceptional warriors of both sexes that they barely fit on the film's poster. But the real stalwarts of this visually spectacular motion picture, the people who will live on in martial arts legend, are all to be found behind the camera.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-08/13992800.jpg "There are a lot of on-screen heroes in "Hero,\" so many exceptional warriors of both sexes that they barely fit on the film's poster. But the real stalwarts of this visually spectacular motion picture, the people who will live on in martial arts legend, are all to be found behind the camera.")
Times Staff WriterThere are a lot of on-screen heroes in "Hero," so many exceptional warriors of both sexes that they barely fit on the film's poster. But the real stalwarts of this visually spectacular motion picture, the people who will live on in martial arts legend,...Tags: Heads of State, Government, Movies, Akira Kurosawa, History
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'Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession'
!["You don't know you're living in a golden age when you're in it," declares filmmaker Alexander Payne in the documentary "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession." The golden age he's referring to is the 15-year run of the wonderfully eclectic cable channel that aired foreign classics, obscure indies and documentaries alongside Hollywood blockbusters, but unless you lived in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s and had access to it, you had no idea of the nightly treasures the service provided — until now.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-10/14629723.jpg ""You don't know you're living in a golden age when you're in it,\" declares filmmaker Alexander Payne in the documentary \"Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession.\" The golden age he's referring to is the 15-year run of the wonderfully eclectic cable channel that aired foreign classics, obscure indies and documentaries alongside Hollywood blockbusters, but unless you lived in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s and had access to it, you had no idea of the nightly treasures the service provided — until now.")
Times Staff Writer"You don't know you're living in a golden age when you're in it," declares filmmaker Alexander Payne in the documentary "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession." The golden age he's referring to is the 15-year run of the wonderfully eclectic cable channel...Tags: Gena Rowlands, Movies, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Alan Rudolph, Satellite and Cable Service
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'Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer,' 'The Manson Family,' '800 Bullets'
![Ralph Torjan's trippy documentary, "Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer," provokes more questions than it answers about the bestselling author and New Age guru who died under mysterious circumstances in 1998. The film primarily consists of interviews with followers and skeptics who discuss the legitimacy of his teachings.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-10/14850785.jpg "Ralph Torjan's trippy documentary, "Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer,\" provokes more questions than it answers about the bestselling author and New Age guru who died under mysterious circumstances in 1998. The film primarily consists of interviews with followers and skeptics who discuss the legitimacy of his teachings.")
Times Staff WriterRalph Torjan's trippy documentary, "Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer," provokes more questions than it answers about the bestselling author and New Age guru who died under mysterious circumstances in 1998. The film primarily consists of interviews...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Movies, Richard de Mille, Carlos Castaneda, Peter Coyote
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Movie review: 'Million Dollar Baby'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC4 stars (out of 4) At 74, Clint Eastwood still has some tricks up his sleeve, including, when he wants it, a knockout punch of shattering force. "Million Dollar Baby" - in which Eastwood admirably returns as director, producer and lead actor after...Tags: Movies, Hilary Swank, Jay Baruchel, Cinderella (fictional character), Entertainment
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Movie review: 'Goodbye, Dragon Inn'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3 ½ stars (out of 4) Tsai Ming-Liang's "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" is a weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's...Tags: Thalia, Music Box Theatre, Movies, Taipei (Taiwan), Manhattan (New York City)
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Movie review: 'Once Upon a Time in the Midlands'
2-1/2 stars (out of 4) This film's title and its harmonica/guitar music tip the hat to Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. But the hapless "cowboys" in this film hardly ride into the sunset; they hail from the nondescript housing developments of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Movies, Crimes, Ken Loach, Rhys Ifans
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