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NEW TO DVD: 'Persepolis' leads this week's offerings
Tribune Newspapers'Persepolis': Marjane Satrapi's graphic-novel memoir "Persepolis" depicts her girlhood, from struggling with her secular family in post-shah Iran to jetting off to school in Vienna, where she faced a different set of prejudices. Satrapi and Vincent...Tags: Sony Corp., Movies, Colin Farrell, Paramount
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Release of the Week: 'In Bruges'
Courant Staff WriterThis will be among 2008's top movies next January, though it's doubtful it will receive any Academy Award nominations. Movies released in February are rarely remembered that long, and black comedies full of bloodshed aren't usually Oscar material...Tags: Ralph Fiennes, Movies, Film Festivals, Colin Farrell
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Movies: Recent openings
Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release. The Children of Huang Shi ** R. 2:05. The true story of a British foreign correspondent (played by a preening Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and his experiences in Japanese-occupied China in the...Tags: Colin Firth, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman, John Turturro
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DVDs: 'Persepolis,' 'Futurama,' 'In Bruges' and more
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPersepolis Sony, $29.95; Blu-ray, $38.96 Marjane Satrapi’s graphic-novel memoir “Persepolis” depicts her girlhood, from struggling with her secular family in post-shah Iran to jetting off to school in Vienna, where she faced a...Tags: Sony Corp., Movies, Colin Farrell, Paramount
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PREMIUM CABLE "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" *** 6:15 p.m., Cinemax Harry's fourth movie, set again in author J.K. Rowling's amazingly well-imagined Hogwarts witchcraft school, is the best filmed Potter so far, pitting him against a renascent...Tags: Harry Potter, Mike Newell, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes
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European Union Film Festival keeps rolling at the Siskel Center
Chicago TribuneThe European Union Film Festival continues at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; 312-846-2600. For a complete schedule, visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org. 'A Girl Cut in Two' 3 1/2 stars (good-excellent) (France/Germany; Claude Chabrol, 2007)....Tags: Festive Event, John Boorman, Kim Cattrall, Luciano Pavarotti, Fiction
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Not your ordinary hit man
Special to NewsdayBruges, the Belgian port city known for its medieval architecture and Flemishness, is referred to in such unspeakable terms during the upcoming "In Bruges" that one would have expected the town to convict actor Colin Farrell and director Martin McDonagh...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Crimes, Robert Downey Jr., Celebrity, Movies
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'In Bruges'
jan.stuart@newsday.comThere is a playful deception going on in the prosaic title of "In Bruges," evocative as it is of chamber recitals and poetry readings in medieval coffeehouses. One is tempted to add a modifying phrase before the "In," for the sake of truth in advertising:...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Murder, Crimes, Ralph Fiennes, Movies
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'In Bruges' (stars Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes) -- 3 stars
Tribune movie criticI'm of two minds regarding "In Bruges," the feature film directorial debut from Irish playwright and screenwriter Martin McDonagh. His subjects are a couple of eccentric hit men on enforced vacation, and along with serial killers with twisted,...Tags: Crimes, Murder, David Mamet, Ralph Fiennes, Harold Pinter
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Soul-searching 'In Bruges'
"In Bruges" stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as a pair of hitmen sent to Bruges, Belgium, to wait for word on their next assignment. Ken (Gleeson) and Ray (Farrell) idle away the hours by bickering like tourists -- Ken wants to visit churches and...Tags: Ralph Fiennes, Movies, Colin Farrell
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For sellers, 3rd time is not quite the charm
Tribune criticIt was supposed to be a trifecta. After the hopped-up bidding wars of the last two years ("Little Miss Sunshine," hit; "Grace Is Gone," miss), this year's Sundance Film Festival, conducted in the midst of a writers strike, was supposed to keep the...Tags: Michael Keaton, Nick Nolte, Movies, Roman Polanski, Social Sciences
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Where the art of the deal, art of film face off
Tribune movie critic"Three days of work, two days of snowboarding." That's the plan of at least one pasty Irish visitor, the writer-director Martin McDonagh, who arrives alongside an estimated 52,000 other people this week for the 30th annual schuss of the Sundance Film...Tags: Nick Nolte, Movies, John Cusack, Television, Cannes Film Festival
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