How little you have to do to get into the feature well of a slick magazine these days. Thomas Mallon's takedown of Ayn Rand in The New Yorker is not online, but it is so phoned-in and lacking in protein that even this synopsis of the article feels padded. There's 1943-vintage prissy caviling about Rand's writing style. ("It is, in fact, badly executed on every level of language, plot, and characterization.")...
We're starting with the Stupak Wire Coat Hanger Amendment. That vote will go for 15 minutes. Then we have the Republican "substitute." George Miller really said everything that needed to be said about their "plan" for reform: Then there will be a the motion to recommit, a Republican effort to derail this one more time that will probably be focused on "illegals." Finally,...
WASHINGTON - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
Flip the Frog, Oswald Rabbit, Koko the Clown and Toby the Pup will return to the screen Tuesday night, at the Billy Wilder Theatre in the Hammer Museum in Westwood, CA. Ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson will play in concert with a screening of 1920s and 30s animated cartoons from the UCLA Film Archive. Films will [...]
The nation has become a rising beacon post-apartheid and the film industry is taking note, with home-grown filmmakers and their foreign counterparts sharing the spotlight. The nation has become a rising beacon post-apartheid and the film industry is taking note, with home-grown filmmakers and their foreign counterparts sharing the spotlight.
A rare bit of bad press for Pixar emerged in September, when the company was sued by Norwegian lamp manufacturer Luxa AS for trademark infringement. Of course, the Pixar brand has used one of those desk lamps in its logo for about 20 years. John Lasseter 's short film that inspired the familiar logo is called Luxo, Jr. So, really, Luxa AS had a claim then and probably should have said something before...
In Fernando Eimbcke's film, a young man goes on a quest to fix his car, finding a human connection when he desperately needs it. At first glance "Lake Tahoe," the second feature by the 39-year-old Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, looks very much like your standard minimalist import. Laconic characters, a fixed camera and unhurried rhythms amount these days to a lingua franca for international...
In blockbusters like 'Avatar,' star Sam Worthington thinks he needs to give characters more of a ... Forget the flying dragons and giant blue aliens, Sam Worthington is in search of human life amid all that extraterrestrial spectacle in "Avatar." Director James Cameron's sci-fi epic arrives Dec. 18 amid intense discussion of its state-of-the-art performance capture and 3-D innovations, but...
I don't have a lot of tolerance for Nancy Meyers movies. As a director, she's one for four, with Something's Gotta Give getting by because of its good cast. Maybe another solid collection of talent can help steer her latest, It's Complicated , in the right direction. I'm not holding out hope, though. I mean, it can't possibly be as lame as The Holiday ...or can it? Well, the central story is redeemable,...
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Item no. 7 from 1986 notebook: A film about deception and lost earring. Item no. 38 from 1986 notebook: Everybody has a past. Item no. 48 from 1986 notebook: Friend on the couch. Affair with the wife. Steven Soderbergh, sex,...
6PM EST…. Blowhard George Miller just finished another OMG we’re all gonna go broke if we don’t pass healthcare reform speech. He of course didn’t mention going broke from no job or all the tax increases this bill will require.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Troy Duffy, director of the Quentin Tarantino-tinted "Boondock Saints" -- and the rise-and-fall subject of the arguably more entertaining 2003 documentary "Overnight" -- returns to the scene of his 1999 debut with "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day." If Duffy's decade away has proved to be a humbling experience, you wouldn't
Everett CollectionRun, Cary, run!One of my favorite movies in general and Alfred Hitchcock movies specifically marks a landmark year. "North by Northwest" turns 50. Cary Grant has never been suavier. (Is that a word') The plot is filled with twists...
Walt Disney Studios' big-budget holiday bet "A Christmas Carol" got off to a soft start Friday, selling a studio-estimated $9 million in the US and Canada.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston, Quentin Tarantino and Kirk Douglas will be among the presenters when Oscar organizers hand out honorary statuettes at a black-tie dinner in Hollywood next month. Actress Lauren Bacall, producer/director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis will receive special Oscars during the ceremony at Hollywood & Highland on November...
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