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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: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Entertainment, Awards and Prizes, Skyfall (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: Joaquin Phoenix, Religion and Belief, Michelle Obama, Mark Andrews , Daniel Day-Lewis
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Authors, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tony Kushner
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis, Alan Arkin, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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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: Kevin Costner, Awards and Prizes, Star Wars (movie), Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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Jim Harbaugh tops list for The Times' Sports Oscars
Oscars, smoshkers. With his scenery-chewing performance on the sidelines last weekend, Jim Harbaugh has elevated himself to the top of this year’s list of the world’s greatest dramatic actors. “Maybe he’s just being himself?&...
Tags: Atlanta Falcons, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Plastic Surgeons, Football, Entertainment Events
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Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection
It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...
Tags: Festive Events, Tobe Hooper, Vertigo (movie), Kenneth Branagh, Paul Thomas Anderson
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Someday prints will come, in pink
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was pink. But we'll get to that in a minute. Music Box Theatre general manager Dave Jennings considers himself fortunate to have such a "smart, forgiving audience" for the current and very popular 70mm retrospective. The...
Tags: Spartacus (tv program), Movies, Entertainment, Vertigo (movie), Festive Events
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'Silver Linings Playbook': Humanity in high-maintenance characters ★★★ 1/2
Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...
Tags: Mental Health, Movies, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Entertainment, Paul Thomas Anderson
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Movies, Joaquin Phoenix, Entertainment, Festive Events, Film Festivals
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Tom Tykwer, Festive Events, Sidney Lumet, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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'Upstream Color' review: Pretentious hogwash--sometimes literally
* (out of four) Forgiving critics and moviegoers often call films without articulate points or well-defined characters "poems." This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the frustrating, hollow “Upstream Color,&...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Paul Thomas Anderson, Poetry
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Nov 15, 2012
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