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'No' is riveting historical fiction ★★★★
"No" is a terrific film, and word got out very quickly at last year's Cannes Film Festival, where the Chilean docudrama deservedly made a lot of noise even though it played outside the main competition categories. No less than "Argo," "Lincoln" and...
Tags: Film Festivals, Gael Garcia Bernal, Elections, The New York Times, Fiction
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Australian film 'The Sapphires' finds its American soul
"The Sapphires," which opens Friday, is the crowd-pleasing, based-on-actual-people story of four young Aboriginal women who team up with a male Irish manager and perform for American troops in Vietnam, so it's covering its bases internationally. The...
Tags: Australia, Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, Berlin International Film Festival, Kristen Wiig
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Un Papa hispano ¿y Obama qué?
Qué experiencia alucinante es, en la actualidad, ser latino y vivir en Estados Unidos. Los 52 millones de latinos de la nación observan infinitas oportunidades, poder e influencia alrededor del mundo. Sin embargo, cerca de casa ven puertas cerradas,...Tags: Social Issues, Ben Affleck, The Washington Post, Central Intelligence Agency
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Gael Garcia Bernal's ad man has global reach
In "No," 34-year-old Guadalajara-born actor and filmmaker Gael Garcia Bernal plays a cocky Santiago, Chile, advertising man who has thrived under the economic policies of the nation's U.S.-backed ruler, Augusto Pinochet. Asked to concoct a TV...
Tags: Film Festivals, Religion and Belief, Gael Garcia Bernal, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards
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Jimmy Patsos does it his way, and Loyola keeps winning
Jimmy Patsos got what he wanted after all. "Three games in March," he said Sunday after Loyola beat Manhattan, 63-61, at Reitz Arena. Three games to win the upcoming Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships and get the automatic bid to the...
Tags: Niagara Purple Eagles, Demerol (drug), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), National Basketball Association, College Basketball
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Readers share ratings, quibbles
The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), Tony Kushner, Fiction, Steven Spielberg, Arts and Culture
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McManus: Gridlock, Tehran-style
With the United States locked in confrontation with Iran, was it good or bad for diplomacy that "Argo," a movie about U.S. spies getting the best of the Iranians, won this year's Academy Award for best picture? Depends on whom you ask. To Iran's...
Tags: Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Elections, U.S. Department of State, Iran's Nuclear Program, Media Industry
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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: Religion and Belief, Cinema Industry, College Baseball, The New York Times, Life of Pi (movie)
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Ted (movie), Charlize Theron, No Country for Old Men (movie), Life of Pi (movie)
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McDonagh sets violently funny 'Seven Psychopaths' in epic desert ★★★
Brutal and often very funny, "Seven Psychopaths" is writer-director Martin McDonagh's answer to "Barton Fink," a crimson yarn that, like that Coen brothers film, imagines what happens in a worst-case-scenario when a Hollywood scribe comes down with...
Tags: Sam Rockwell, In Bruges (movie), Michael Pitt, Ethan Coen, Criminals
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a first draft of history ★★★★
To consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment. Not to take anything away from that rousing true (-ish) story of hostages freed and...
Tags: Abbottabad (Pakistan), Chris Pratt, Pakistan, Jason Clarke, Celebrities
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Stars pick the directors they want to watch
Let's say there's a row of beautiful movie theaters, and the marquee of each one reads, "New film by (name of filmmaker here)." And let's say there's no other information about the film itself. Which one would you choose? We offered this dilemma to some...
Tags: The Weinstein Company, Admission (movie), The Woman in Black (movie), Pulp Fiction (movie), Harvey Weinstein
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