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Fast Chat with director Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme has long had one of the most interesting careers in the film business. An Oscar-winning director ("The Silence of the Lambs"), the 64-year-old Demme has also enjoyed success as a concert filmmaker ("Stop Making Sense"), documentarian ("...Tags: New York, Budgets and Budgeting, Anne Hathaway, Manhattan (New York City), Rachel Getting Married
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Review: 'Little Shop of Horrors' in Northport
steve.parks@newsday.comI never connected "Little Shop of Horrors" - not even the 1960 Roger Corman fright flick - with Halloween. But the producers at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport evidently have. Or maybe this reincarnation of the musical by Alan Menken, who moved...Tags: Halloween, Election Day, Northport, James Brown, Music
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'Rachel Getting Married'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comThe Buchmans, the family at the center of Jonathan Demme's unconventional and often unpredictable drama "Rachel Getting Married," have their share of issues, from garden-variety jealousies to drug abuse and shattering loss. The bride (Rosemarie DeWitt)...Tags: New York, Jonathan Demme, Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Family
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One more juicy role
Of The Morning CallAnisa George likes the corner of creativity and community. The Bethlehem native hung out there in ''Foreigner,'' her solo play about being Baha'i in America and Iran. In ''Don Quixote of Bethlehem,'' her documentary about Touchstone Theatre's bilingual...Tags: Anne Hathaway, Photography, August, Rachel Getting Married, Manhattan (New York City)
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Jonathan Demme's 'Rachel Getting Married.'
Los Angeles TimesDirector Jonathan Demme's first fictional feature in nearly five years, "Rachel Getting Married" captures the anxieties of family dynamics and the difficulties of emotional closure. The film is shot in a loose, documentary-like way, and the rangy,...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Anne Hathaway, Family, Paul Thomas Anderson, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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'X Films' by Alex Cox
Special to The TimesATRUE "radical" filmmaker is not satisfied to merely bloviate from the red carpet or screening room. One must turn art into action. Alex Cox is ready with a personal manifesto: He calls feature filmmaking a dying art form in the Digital Age, has open...Tags: Los Angeles, John Ford, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Harry Dean Stanton, William Walker
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Movie capsules
Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release. Babylon A.D. * PG-13. 1:25. Vin Diesel isn't the whole problem with this gritty sci-fi road picture in the "Children of Men" mold, with Diesel playing a mercenary hired to escort a waif...Tags: John Malkovich, Babylon A.D., Roger Moore, Ian McShane, Ben Kingsley
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Movies: Recent openings
Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release. Babylon A.D. * PG-13. 1:25. Vin Diesel isn't the whole problem with this gritty sci-fi road picture in the "Children of Men" mold, with Diesel playing a mercenary hired to escort a waif...Tags: John Malkovich, Roger Moore, Babylon A.D., Ian McShane, Newspapers
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Goyer happy to bring horror to Chicago
Tribune staff reporterWriter/director David S. Goyer liked Chicago so much while on set for "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" he returned to direct his horror movie "The Unborn." He got more than he bargained for."We had an earthquake while we were filming an exorcism...Tags: Illnesses, Rogers Park, Batman, Ray Harryhausen, Evanston
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'Death Race'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comParents, here's the truth. This weekend, your 14-year-old boy may claim to be seeing a Saturday matinee of " The Rocker," rated a mild PG-13, but he is assuredly planning to sneak into "Death Race," rated R. And who could blame him? Filled with weaponized...Tags: Prisons, Ian McShane, Movies, Joan Allen, Tyrese
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Movie Review: 'Death Race' - 2 stars out of 5
Sentinel Movie CriticOf all the Z-movies in the Roger Corman catalog, they had to remake Death Race 2000. But if the original Death Race, with its murderous road rally drivers who take down pedestrians for "points," seemed darkly prophetic when it came out back in 1975,...Tags: Vehicles, Roger Moore, Game Playing, Ian McShane, Minority Groups
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NOW PLAYING
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'Young@Heart' *** 1/...Tags: Illnesses, Minnie Driver, Orson Welles, Evanston, Newspapers
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