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This 'Visitor' just won't leave
THE BIG PICTUREWHEN I first saw "The Visitor" in the weeks leading up to the Toronto Film Festival last fall, I was moved by filmmaker Tom McCarthy's soulful account of a widowed college professor (played by character actor Richard Jenkins) who is spiritually reawakened...Tags: New York, Charlie Kaufman, Film Festivals, Startups, Business
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The List: Art Openings
So much art, so little time. How to best navigate the Los Angeles gallery and museum scene? Here are critic's previews, openings and continuing shows for the week beginning Thursday, June 18.
Critic's Preview
Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic...Tags: Richard Avedon, California, Culver City, Venice, West Hollywood
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Cannes braces for American invasion
Times Movie CriticIN CASE you had any doubts -- and maybe you didn't -- it's now official: The Festival de Cannes is a very big event. According to a story in Nice-Matin, the paper of record in the South of France, the festival close to triples the population of this...Tags: Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, Cannes Film Festival, Roman Polanski, David Lynch
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Cannes '08: It's over, but what just happened?
In the end, it was entirely appropriate that "What Just Happened" got the last flicker of light from the projector at this year's Festival de Cannes. It's about a troubled movie, starring Sean Penn, that plays to a rainy Cannes within a real-life troubled...Tags: Celebrity, Celebrity Mothers, Cinema Industry, Joaquin Phoenix, David Frost
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'Blindness' to open Cannes Film Festival
A new movie by Brazilian director Fernando Mereilles starring American actress Julianne Moore will open this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.
"Blindness" is a based on a novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago about a city...Tags: Celebrity, Bruce Willis, Cannes Film Festival, Natalie Portman, Gael Garcia Bernal
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Cannes pits Hollywood against obscure arthouse
Hollywood legends and obscure arthouse directors descend on Cannes from Wednesday for the world's biggest film festival that combines edgy cinema with A-list celebrities, glitzy parties and frenetic deal-making.
Clint Eastwood is in the main...Tags: George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Lou Reed, Steven Spielberg, Celebrity
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'Night' is murky at best
Sun Movie Critic(C-) Writer-director James Gray sets We Own the Night in 1988. The title comes from the late-'80s motto of the NYPD's street- crimes unit, and a key location is a garish dance club where coke flows like Coke. But at heart, Gray wants to make the best...Tags: Robert Duvall, New York City Police Department, New York Weather, William Friedkin, Weather Reports
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New on Video
Zap2It.comBy Jay Bobbin, Zap2it.com ++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || "WHY DID I GET MARRIED?": Tyler Perry proved himself a force at the box office again, following "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and "Madea's Family Reunion" with this hit comedy-drama about four...Tags: Maggie Smith, Employees, John Cusack, Robert Duvall, Literature
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'Night' Adds Nice Digital Splashes to a Dry Plot
Zap2It.comFor every 50 numbing examples of digital effects in the movies, you happen upon a computer-generated wonder. Sometimes it's obvious. Sometimes it isn't. The best scene in the otherwise lugubrious new crime thriller "We Own the Night" is a car chase in...Tags: New York, Vehicles, Coney Island, Movies, Police
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'Night' a gritty crime drama straight from the 70s
Los Angeles TimesBrothers, loyalty, the Russian mob and New York City's outer boroughs at night continue to fascinate filmmaker James Gray. "We Own the Night" marks his third feature in a dozen years following "Little Odessa" and "The Yards." It's a bare-knuckled crime...Tags: Robert Duvall, Literature, Ethics, New York City Police Department, Crimes
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'We Own the Night'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBrothers, loyalty, the Russian mob and New York City's outer boroughs continue to fascinate filmmaker James Gray, whose "We Own the Night" marks his third feature in a dozen years following "Little Odessa" and "The Yards." It's a bare-knuckled crime drama...Tags: Robert Duvall, Literature, Ethics, New York City Police Department, Crimes
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We Own the Night
Metromix StaffReckless nightclub manager Bobby (Joaquin Phoenix) doesn't mind hanging with drug dealers and skirting the law until his clients try to harm Bobby's brother Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and father Burt (Robert Duvall), both cops. So Bobby assists the police...Tags: Robert Duvall, Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Movies, Joaquin Phoenix
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