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'Chris & Don: A Love Story'
Special to NewsdayGiven the threat gay people pose to lasting relationships, it's positively astounding what directors Guido Santi and Tina Mascara reveal in their affectionate nonfiction, "Chris and Don: A Love Story." Christopher Isherwood is probably as famous now as...Tags: Christopher Isherwood, Minority Groups, Manhattan (New York City), John Anderson, Movies
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Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy: a personal and artistic union
Special to The TimesEsteemed British writer Christopher Isherwood met 18-year-old Don Bachardy at Will Rogers State Beach in October 1952 and by early the next year, the two had begun an intimate relationship that lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986. They were a high-...Tags: Christopher Isherwood, Minority Groups, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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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: James Joyce, Stanford White, Movies, Luciano Pavarotti, Brendan Gleeson
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A stranger in his own land
Sun Movie Critic(B-) The most original parts of The Year My Parents Went on Vacation vividly juxtapose melting-pot conviviality with political turmoil in 1970 Brazil. Michel Joelsas plays Mauro, a 12-year-old boy whose activist parents go underground when the military...Tags: Family, Judaism, Movies
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'Wondrous Oblivion'
Special to The TimesSet in working-class London at the dawn of the 1960s, "Wondrous Oblivion" filters the era's cultural clashes through the starry eyes of a young Jewish boy. Although his parents — a middle-aged tailor and his young, pretty wife — fled to...Tags: Sam Adams, Movies, Cricket
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Films from Tsotsi’ to Catch a Fire’ delve deep into the heart of Africa and audiences are enjoying the journey
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThe title of the latest film out of Africa - "Catch a Fire" - might describe what's happening with cinema on that continent. With international filmmakers finding stories they want to tell there, and Hollywood taking an interest in serious films set...Tags: Athol Fugard, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Juliette Binoche, Cannes Film Festival
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When it feels so right in a mass of wrongs
STAFF WRITER(R). Post-apartheid justice in South Africa, through the eyes of journalists Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. John Boorman's junk-food drama patronizes its audiences by upstaging the suffering of the faceless thousands with the more pressing...Tags: Cinema Industry, Manhattan (New York City), Magic Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche
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Movie review: 'In My Country'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3˝ stars (out of 4) John Boorman's "In My Country," set during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings in the mid-1990s, is a stirring, large-souled movie about an event that was both an exposure of horror and a celebration of...Tags: Ron Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Langston Hughes, Charlize Theron
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Kate Winslet: A play date with Oscar?
Times Staff WriterThe little children in "Little Children" are the adults, starting with Kate Winslet's Sarah, an overeducated suburban mom deadened by marriage to a slug who wears women's underwear on his head. Among the film's first words of dialogue are "Bad mommy!...Tags: Bernardo Bertolucci, Coca-Cola Company, Sam Mendes, Movies, Film Festivals
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Movie review: 'The Descent'
Tribune movie critic2˝ stars (out of four) In "The Descent," a low-budget horror movie full of tough ladies and creepy thrills, six adventurous girlfriends from the United Kingdom, on a cave-exploring expedition in the American Appalachian mountains, get lost in the caverns...Tags: Landforms, Jon Harris, Movies, James Dickey, Caves and Caverns
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'Red Dust'
Zap2It.com"Red Dust" is an odd little movie: It's too earnest to be shrugged off, too well-cast to be badly acted, too well-made to be dismissed out of hand. But it's not very good. The film -- the feature debut of director Tom Hooper - revolves around South...Tags: Cinema Industry, Law Enforcement, Police, Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche
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'The Descent'
Chicago TribuneIn "The Descent," a low-budget horror movie full of tough women and creepy thrills, six adventurous girlfriends from the United Kingdom, on a cave-exploring expedition in the American Appalachian mountains, get lost in the caverns and run into a race of...Tags: Landforms, Jon Harris, Movies, James Dickey, Caves and Caverns
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