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Carnage thrives in the open air
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey crept forth from across the city last Friday evening -- in Hummers, vintage convertibles and plain old Toyotas -- to huddle together at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood for its first ever scary drive-in movie series. To kick off this 10-week...Tags: Movies, Larry Cohen, Julie Christie, Theater, Culver City
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Movie Buzz: Heath Ledger's swan song
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWHO Heath Ledger THE DEAL Despite the blockbuster success of " The Dark Knight," U.S. distributors are shying away from the late actor's other film, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Directed by the imaginative...Tags: Movies, Ethan Coen, Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam, Colin Farrell
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Evil Unleashed Begets Gore Galore
Courant Staff Writer"Mother of Tears" is a delicious chunk of cheese, a stylish and entertaining crock of old-style horror-genre schlock. Seeing such a relic in the era of torture porn is almost quaint, even as ceremonial daggers are cutting into orifices and entrails are...Tags: Movies, Real Art Ways, Harry Potter, Asia Argento
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'The Last Mistress'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comVariously described as an "ugly mutt," "the goddess of capriciousness" and a woman who can "outstare the sun," the Spanish firestorm known as La Vellini - the dark center of Catherine Breillat's enthralling period piece "The Last Mistress" - probably...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Asia Argento
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'The Last Mistress': Costumes change, themes stay the same
Tribune criticAn unusually intimate costume drama, writer-director Catherine Breillat's "The Last Mistress" has enough ornery sex in it to further its maker's reputation for provocation. Yet it's a different sort of venture for the maker of "Fat Girl" and "Anatomy of...Tags: Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Asia Argento
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'Mother of Tears': Director offers more than gore
Chicago Tribune criticThe Italian horror veteran Dario Argento marches to his own blood-soaked, wild-eyed drummer, and the more we endure things such as "Hostel II" and "Saw III" the better even a second-shelf Argento picture looks by comparison. "Mother of Tears" may not...Tags: Movies, Music Box Theatre, Sex, Family, Vincente Minnelli
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Director offers more than gore
The following is a recap of Tribune critic Michael Phillips' review of "Mother of Tears," which ran in Wednesday's Tempo section. For the full review, visit chicago tribune.com/movies. The Italian horror veteran Dario Argento marches to his own blood-...Tags: Sex, Family, New York, Asia Argento
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Feelings of love, lust and the loss of L.A.
"They're one, lust and love," says 32-year-old Italian-born actress and director Asia Argento (Asia's pronounced ah-SEE-a), who plays the rapacious courtesan La Vellini in the new French film "The Last Mistress," opening Friday at Landmark's Century...Tags: Movies, Los Angeles, Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Roger Ebert
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'The Mother of Tears'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comPLOT An artifact gives life to a witch's spirit. (unrated) CAST Asia Argento, Cristian Solimento LENGTH 98 minutes PLAYING AT AMC Empire 25 and Sunshine Cinema, Manhattan BOTTOM LINE Dario Argento's ketchupy brand of horror hasn't aged well, nor...Tags: Movies, Manhattan (New York City), Jason Bateman, Asia Argento
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'Bomb It', 'The Mother of Tears,' 'The Poet' and double feature 'Solar Flare' and 'Polar Opposites'
"Bomb It"
Though it has already been rolling out to theaters elsewhere, the graffiti documentary "Bomb It" hits Los Angeles at just the right moment, as local headlines have recently been filled with tales of online tagger braggadocio and subsequent...Tags: Beverly Hills, Movies, Judaism, Daryl Hannah, West Hollywood
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Experiencing director Dario Argento, in stages, on DVD
Special to The TimesTHE ITALIAN horror maestro Dario Argento is a long way from the glorious first decade or so of his career, when he seemed continually to be expanding the possibilities and ignoring the rules of the genre. His movies since the mid-'80s have seldom...Tags: Movies, Piper Laurie, Jimmy Stewart, Jennifer Connelly, Health and Safety at School
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Dario Argento's work on DVD: 'The things that scare us never change.'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDario Argento has quite the body count. The 67-year-old Italian auteur has been making hypnotic, blood-drenched films since the early 1970s and his operatic tales of gore have been hailed by horror fans as their genre's closest equivalent to the canon...Tags: Movies, John Huston, Jennifer Connelly, Anjelica Huston, Edgar Allan Poe
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