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Michael Chabon looks back on 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay") reflected on 2012's cultural highlights and currents in a conversation from his home in Berkeley. What were your favorite books this year? I really loved my...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Wes Anderson, Authors, Entertainment Events, Satellite and Cable Service
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African-American Film Critics name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film
"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's chronicle of the search for terrorist Osama bin-Laden, continued its winning ways Sunday evening when it was named best film of 2012 by the African-American Film Critics Association. The film, which opens Wednesday,...Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Arbitrage (movie), France, Life of Pi (movie), Flight (movie)
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Nat Faxon, The King's Speech (movie), Jim Rash, Django Unchained (movie)
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Golden Globes nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads the pack
Spreading its praise between accessible, star-driven movies and a handful of challenging films, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. bestowed a leading seven Golden Globe nominations on Steven Spielberg's biography "Lincoln" while handing five nods apiece to...Tags: Rust and Bone (movie), Comedy (genre), Leonardo DiCaprio, Helen Mirren, John Hawkes
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Best movies of 2012: 'Pi,' 'Master,' 'Moonrise Kingdom' make cut
It's as if this year filmmakers remembered why God made movies. In a world of nonstop data where most of the static is gossip in 140 soul-destroying words or less, cinema has had a transcendent 12 months — a visual renaissance that has burned past...Tags: The Turin Horse (movie), The Loneliest Planet (movie), Wes Anderson, Leos Carax, Paul Thomas Anderson
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Highs, lows — and a graceful exit
It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...
Tags: Smash (tv program), Michael Clarke Duncan, Prometheus (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Bill Maher
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'Pi,' 'Impossible': Nature's fury unleashed on the film screen
It could be a dark and stormy Oscar night. Among the historical epics, political thrillers and romantic dramas on the awards scene, several films that feature nature's fury are clouding the horizon. "Life of Pi," "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "The...Tags: Wes Anderson, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards, Life of Pi (movie), Naomi Watts
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Bill Murray's take on FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
TELLURIDE, Colo. — Actors are used to pressure, but the task before Bill Murray in "Hyde Park on Hudson" was more than a little stressful. Director Roger Michell said that if the "Ghostbusters" and "Groundhog Day" veteran didn't want to star as...
Tags: Polio, Celebrities, Film Festivals, Olivia Williams, Wes Anderson
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Directors detail their films' crucial scenes
For most directors, there is usually one moment in their film that brings it all together while they are shooting — or sometimes before production has even started — one scene that unlocks key relationships among the characters or clicks so...Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Music, Holidays, Wes Anderson, Academy Awards
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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: YouTube, Jennifer Lawrence, BRIT Awards, Romola Garai, Joaquin Phoenix
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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: A Royal Affair (movie), Rust and Bone (movie), Smash (tv program), Girls (tv program), Taylor Swift
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SAG nominations: The highs, the lows, the in-betweens [video]
Outside of "Braveheart," no film has won the Academy Award for best picture without also winning a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination. That's good news for front-runners like "Lincoln," "Argo," "Les Miserables" and "Silver Linings Playbook" and a...Tags: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Wes Anderson, Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Google+
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