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Redford’s “The Conspirator” Explores Lincoln Assassination |
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Julie Taboh |
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Most Americans know that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. But they possibly don’t realize that Booth was part of a complex conspiracy. Booth ...
Issue Date: 6 / 2011
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25999
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Diablo Cody's ''Juno'': The Fertile Life of a Writer |
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Jenny Mayo |
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It was a particularly fertile year in the entertainment industry -- that is to say, there were a lot of babies being born to young, often unmarried protagonists in the year''s ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2008
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26000
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Frank Langella: A Watchful Eye Translates Life into Acting |
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Kelly Jane Torrance |
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On the surface, Frank Langella isn''t much like Leonard Schiller, the aging novelist he plays in the new film "Starting Out in the Evening."
"I''m quite gregarious -- I''m ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2008
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25925
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'Dark Stranger' Introduced Kerr |
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Gary Arnold |
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The movie career of Deborah Kerr, who died Oct. 16 at 86, was punctuated by a curious also-ran status at the Academy Awards. Despite being nominated six times as best actress and ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2007
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25497
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Minghella a Composed Filmmaker |
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Christian Toto |
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Despite a record of critically acclaimed and commercially successful films (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain), director Anthony ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2007
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25310
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Alexander Mackendrick's Special Touch With Film |
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Gary Arnold |
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The January 2006 revival of Sweet Smell of Success at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre was one of several reminders of the memorable but curiously deflected ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2006
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25102
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Steve Martin's Many Faces |
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Christian Toto |
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It''s a funny thing about Steve Martin. Every time we pigeonhole him, he wriggles free with either a new persona or yesterday''s model spruced up with a fresh coat of ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2006
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24919
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An Ex-Marine Keeps It Real in Jarhead |
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Christian Toto |
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Don''t tell Marine-turned author Anthony Swofford that the new film based on his experiences in the first Gulf War isn''t political.
The narrative of "Jarhead" is dictated by ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2006
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24930
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Lean's 'Oliver' is Best Twist of Dickens' Tale |
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Gary Arnold |
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Filmmakers who reach back for well-known source material--as director Roman Polanski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood have done, with dismal results, in their new movie version of ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2006
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24607
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The Whitewashing of Red Hollywood |
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Scott Galupo |
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Lucky is the institution that can mythologize its own past. Like Hollywood, for instance. Hollywood produces movies about everything--war, sports, medieval history, space aliens, ...
Issue Date: 9 / 2005
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24337
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The Alexander Backlash: Is the Box-Office Flop a Casualty of the Culture War? |
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Scott Galupo |
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Oliver Stone may have had trouble digesting his turkey over Thanksgiving. His baby, Alexander, the movie that had been gestating in the director''s head for years, flopped ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2005
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24206
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The Drama Behind Star Wars |
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Gary Arnold |
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Star Wars Trilogy, the first DVD edition of George Lucas'' science-fiction adventure saga, looms as an irresistible gift for moviegoers who first formed an attachment to this ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2005
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24113
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Honoring James Garner |
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Pat Nason |
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When he heard that the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) would honor James Garner with its Life Achievement Award, The Rockford Files producer Stephen J. Cannell said Garner was "an ...
Issue Date: 11 / 2004
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23219
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Politics in Film: The Seventeenth Filmfest DC |
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Lloyd Eby |
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The Washington, D.C. International Film Festival--also known as Filmfest DC--usually has a section highlighting films from a particular country. The seventeenth Filmfest DC, ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2003
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21340
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Filmfest DC at Fifteen: Little Miracles Abound |
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Lloyd Eby |
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The fifteenth Washington, D.C. International Film Festival
focuses on imaginative Argentine director Eliseo Subiela,
rescreens rare gems from past festivals, and brings the ...
Issue Date: 7 / 2001
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17988
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Hitchcock and the Censors |
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Leonard J. Leff |
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Through collaboration and clashes with Hollywood''s Production
Code censors, Alfred Hitchcock--born a hundred years ago--
developed the art of suggestion into powerful ...
Issue Date: 8 / 1999
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17458
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The Resurrection of Ida Lupino |
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Susan Fegley Osmond |
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Three years after her death, Lupino is the subject of renewed
appreciation--not only for her incandescent acting but for
her
bold and prolific directing in film and ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1998
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16368
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Exposing Waco: A Compelling Investigative Documentary |
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Lloyd Eby |
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Waco: The Rules of Engagement is renewing controversy over
the
government''s role in the fatal 1993 clash with the Branch
Davidians that left more than eighty ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1997
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The Screenwriter's Quandary: Majors Versus Independents |
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Beverly Levitt |
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"BOFFO BLOCKBUSTER ACTIONEER!"
"SIDE-SPLITTING COMEDY!"
"INTIMATE EXPLORATION OF FAMILIAL SACRIFICE."
"NOVELISTIC, INTRICATE TALE OF MURDER, MYSTERY, AND INCEST."
While ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1997
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14344
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Mary Pickford Returns |
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John Tibbetts |
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For sixty years, the films of cinema''s first great star have
been unavailable. But now, videos and planned film festivals
will show that there was more to the Glad Girl than ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1996
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