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A reel banquet
MOSTLY MARTHA (2001) It's unbelievable that you forgot the German film, "Mostly Martha." What a wonderful film to begin with -- fascinating story beautifully acted, and very funny to boot. But the food! Among many wonderful, mouthwatering scenes, the one...Tags: Paul Bartel, Frank Capra Jr., Alexander Payne, Kevin Bacon, Johnny Depp
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New 'Fantastic Voyage' Gets a Director
Zap2It.comAs a director, Roland Emmerich has tackled the aliens, the environment, giant lizards, the British and now he's ready to go inside the human body. According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has recruited Emmerich to direct the studio's remake of the 1966...Tags: Public Holidays, Roland Emmerich
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Richard Fleischer, 89; Director of '20,000 Leagues', 'Soylent Green', Dies
Richard Fleischer picked up the phone more than half a century ago and was stunned. Walt Disney was on the line, asking him to direct "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." "You do know who I am?" Fleischer recalled asking. His father, animation pioneer Max...Tags: Crimes, Yale University, Robert Mitchum, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rex Harrison
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5 films that are down and dirty movies about morally flawed cops
1. "The French Connection' (William Friedkin; 1971) 4 stars The most violently kinetic cops and robbers thriller of its day, based on the real-life Marseilles heroin connection investigation by New York City cops Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan -- re-created...Tags: George C Scott, Sonny Grosso, Sidney Lumet, Al Pacino, Movies
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'Man of the Year'
Times Staff WriterThe split screen is almost as old as the movies and has been put to imaginative use in films as diverse as Abel Gance's silent "Napoleon" with its wide-screen triptych, Richard Fleischer's "The Boston Strangler" and Andy Warhol's "Chelsea Girls." With...Tags: West Hollywood, Andy Warhol, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), California, Movies
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Movie review, "Pearl Harbor"
"Pearl Harbor," the much-anticipated three-hour epic about the day of infamy that pushed the United States into World War II, is a movie meant to explode off the screen -- and it's at its best when those explosions are going full blast. The movie's 40-...Tags: Cuba Gooding Jr., Alec Baldwin, Dwayne Johnson, Jon Voight, Game Playing
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