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Cannes kicks off with hommage to Bertolucci

Thu, 12 May 2011 11:48:00 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 12 - Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci (L), is awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his career from the president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob (C) as President of the Jury Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,

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Werner Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terri Gross, Werner Herzog - Apr. 25 (Interview) - In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. That doesn't mean the ancient drawings are any less sophisticated than what artists create today, says filmmaker Werner Herzog. "Art ... as it bursts on the scene 32,000 years ago, is fully accomplished. It doesn't start with 'primitive scribblings' and first attempts like children would make drawings," Herzog says. "It's absolutely and fully accomplished." The acclaimed German director, who has produced, written and directed more than 40 films, gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves. He tells their story and the story of the world's oldest cave paintings in The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3-D documentary film. "Since early adolescence, I have been fascinated by cave paintings," Herzog tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It actually was my personal intellectual awakening ... and shook me to the core — seeing an image of a horse [from the] prehistoric Stone Age. I couldn't believe it." Part of Herzog's interest in the paintings, he says, is the knowledge that tens of thousands of years ago, humans had the instinct to make art in order to represent the world around them.

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The one and only Liz

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Editorial Staff - Mar. 24 (Editorial) - There's no doubt that Elizabeth Taylor defined 'celebrity' for the modern age.

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'Becoming Chaz' tells the complicated, touching story of Chaz Bono's sex change

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Steven Zeitchik - Jan. 24 (Review) - Chastity Bono says she always wanted to be male. 'Becoming Chaz,' which tells the story of her transition to male, screens at the Sundance Film Festival.

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To the MPAA ratings board, 'The King's Speech' is just as bad as 'Saw 3D'

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick Goldstein - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - “The King’s Speech,” a British film being touted as a leading contender for the best picture Oscar, is a delightful, heart-warming account of how a cheeky Australian speech therapist helped King George VI conquer a terrible stammer. “Saw 3D” is the seventh installment in the torture-porn horror film series, which as the Orlando Sentinel’s Roger Moore described it, has grown more and more gruesome, “with the filmmakers caught up in ‘What would it look like if somebody’s jaw was ripped out, or their skin was glued to a car seat?’”

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James Cameron on 'Avatar,' 'Titanic,' and the Future of 3-D

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Itzkoff - Oct. 19 (Interview) - Mr. Cameron spoke recently to ArtsBeat about “Avatar”s past and present, as well as his future plans. These are excerpts from that conversation.

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Scoundrel Time

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By John Podhoretz - Jun. 10 (Review) - Remember when wacky codgers in movies used to sit in rocking chairs on porches dispensing cranky wisdom? Or how, on television, Uncle Joe would be “a-movin’ kinda slow at the junction—Petticoat Junction”? Uncle Joe was played by an actor named Edgar Buchanan, and when the show debuted in 1963, Edgar Buchanan was all of 60 years old. Sixty happens to be the age of the character played by Michael Douglas in the compelling new movie Solitary Man.

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Hollywood's Political Fictions - New York Times

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:11:48 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - Hollywood's Political FictionsNew York TimesConsider “Green Zone,” the new Matt Damon thriller that doubles as a meditation on Why We Are in Iraq. The director is Paul Greengrass, ...and more??

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The Messiah Complex

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - Every age produces its own sort of fables, and our age seems to have produced The White Messiah fable. ... Yet of all the directors who have used versions of the White Messiah formula over the years, no one has done so with as much exuberance as James Cameron in “Avatar.”

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Where the Girls Are

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jen Chaney - Jun. 01 (Review) - ’Spring Breakdown’ is the rare comedy that’s truly for the ladies. Too bad it disappoints.

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Tyler Perry: Hollywood's new commander in chief?

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick Goldstein - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - Last night, I was asked to speak at an evening program at a local temple. Since the topic was "Jews in Hollywood," I brought along a true Hollywood Jew, Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal, who spoke quite eloquently and insightfully about her faith and how it's sometimes tested by her job. Being my usual contrarian self, at one point I suddenly veered off topic, asking Pascal why -- if America had managed to elect an African American president -- was Hollywood was still light years away from the day when there could be a black studio chief.

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Michael Moore's Sicko (or why Orac should relent and go see this movie)

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:18:25 -0700

ScienceBlogs.com - By Mark Hoofnagle - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - went to see Michael Moore's Sicko last night and it is truly worthy of being seen by every American. I say that knowing how many feel about Michael Moore and his tendency towards spectacle. I hope that people can set aside whatever prejudice they have towards Moore and see this movie. This is a movie that contains more truth than any he has made so far. I went in with a skeptical mind, knowing the issues that face the practice of medicine in the United States in this new millennium, how easy they can be discussed inaccurately or flippantly and how medicine was once practiced in this country. Medicine is something deeply personal to me as I am a the son of two doctors - my mother a private-practice family physician who has been practicing for more than 30 years, and my father a research MD at the NIH. This movie struck many chords, as someone who has insurance, who studies medicine, who cares about fixing our current medical care system, who has known doctors, and who has received medical care. There is something for everyone in this movie, doctors, nurses, patient, and policy-makers alike, and I sincerely wish that everyone gives it a chance and an open mind. I doubt anyone will see it and be disappointed or unaffected.

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Michael Moore's Math

Sun, 27 May 2007 09:51:41 -0700

New York Times - By Anthony DePalma - May. 27 (Review) - Dr. Robert N. Butler, president of the International Longevity Center in New York and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author on aging, has traveled to Cuba to see firsthand how doctors are trained. He said a principal reason that some health standards in Cuba approach the high American level is that the Cuban system emphasizes early intervention. Clinic visits are free, and the focus is on preventing disease rather than treating it.

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Forever yo: Talia Shire's Adrian

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:19:44 -0800

USA Today - By William Keck - Dec. 25 (Interview) - Q: Did your own spouse's death (in 1994) make this whole experience even more poignant for you? A: In our culture, we like to say, "Get over it; move on." But you don't move on. Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday. Watching Rocky wake up from a very lonely bed, searching for her at the grave, felt very familiar.

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High Hopes

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:06:03 -0800

New Yorker - By ANTHONY LANE - Nov. 27 (Entertainment) - According to the Book of Genesis, the Tree of Life was in the Garden of Eden. Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain," an altogether more useful guide, gives precise directions

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'Snakes' on the brain

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:48:33 -0700

Baltimore Examiner - By Jeffrey M. Anderson - Aug. 18 (Entertainment) - "Snakes on a Plane" is something that has never existed before; it’s the world’s most popular cult film that no one has seen.

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