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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Les Miserables (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Flight (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Moonrise Kingdom (movie)
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Cannes Film Festival: Steven Spielberg heads jury
“We’re always sitting in personal private judgment of the films we see,” Steven Spielberg said Wednesday, in Wednesday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference introducing this year’s nine-person jury headed by Spielberg....
Tags: Film Festivals, Christoph Waltz, Steven Spielberg, Amour (movie), Taxi Driver (movie)
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Backstage at the Oscars: Affleck, Clooney talk 'Argo'
Highlights from backstage at the Oscars: The “Argo” trio of Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov took the stage, and Affleck was asked when he felt was tipping point for his movie’s victory. “Michelle Obama,”...
Tags: Les Miserables (movie), Christoph Waltz, Anna Karenina (movie), Jack Nicholson, Quentin Tarantino
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Nate Silver: In Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything'
Predictability and the arts-and-entertainment world have an uneasy relationship. Predictability is a given — like the mouthfeel of a Big Mac — when it comes to, say, the punch lines on "Two and a Half Men" or the beats of your average...
Tags: Christoph Waltz, Politics, Django Unchained (movie), Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper
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Oscars and American history: True, or true enough?
A modest proposal: Movies exploring some aspect of American history, such as “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” should leave off the “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events”...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), Tony Kushner, Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Mel Gibson
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Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: Mad Men (tv program), Les Miserables (musical), BBC, Dustin Hoffman, 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' leads Golden Globe nominations with seven
The nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms. Steven Spielberg's epic on the 16th president, "Lincoln," stood out in the film categories with seven Golden Globe nominations, followed...
Tags: Mad Men (tv program), House of Lies (tv program), Christoph Waltz, John Hawkes, Downton Abbey (tv program)
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To the screen, and back again
I'm 51 and Bilbo-free. Somehow "The Hobbit" has eluded me my entire reading life. What was I reading in junior high when I first noticed everyone else was reading it? "Big A: The Story of Lew Alcindor," maybe. Or William K. Everson's book on Laurel &...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), Tony Kushner, Jude Law, Jaws (movie), Richard LaGravenese
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Swedes make a mean cup of joe
Here's a tasty legacy from the visit I shared with some of my Swedish cousins a few weeks ago: Gevalia! It's a brand of coffee in Sweden, and it's good to the last drop. I had it when I was in Sweden two years ago and sort of forgot about it because I...
Tags: Sonny Jurgensen, Thunderball (music group), Homeland (tv program), Don Johnson, Bradley Cooper
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Sea changes in 'Life of Pi' ★ ★ ★
"Life of Pi," Yann Martel's beautiful little book about a young man and the sea and a tiger, has transformed into a big, imposing and often lovely 3-D experience. If the results are less about poetry and wonder than the digital and cinematic engineering...
Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment, Tallulah Bankhead, Animals, Movies
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A perilous journey for 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee
The critics and reporters assembled to watch the new “Life of Pi” a few weeks ago weren't expecting a filmmaker introduction, but in stepped the ever-soft-spoken Ang Lee to inform them that this had been his hardest film to make and that...
Tags: Film Festivals, Taking Woodstock (movie), Alfonso Cuaron, Jane Austen, Quentin Tarantino
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