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TODAY'S PICKS
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (5 p.m., FNC; 6p.m., CNN, CSPAN; 7 p.m., MSNBC; 8 p.m., WNET/13; 10p.m., CBS/2, NBC/4, ABC/7) - The party gathers in Denver to nominate its candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama. Michelle Obama is scheduled to speak....Tags: Michelle Obama, Claude Rains, Clint Eastwood, Weaponry, Alfred Hitchcock
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'The Go-Getter'
Times Movie CriticWhen his mother dies after a long illness, Mercer White (Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a beat-up old Volvo from a carwash and takes off on the great American hipster road trip. Mercer is in search of his long-lost, half-Mexican half-brother, Arlen, whom he...Tags: Movies, Bill Duke, Santa Monica, Metal, Oregon
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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: Bernardo Bertolucci, Movies, Dario Argento, Jennifer Connelly, Piper Laurie
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Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON a recent afternoon at the Warner Bros. lot, Clint Eastwood took a break from a long day in the editing bay and strolled over to a hushed screening room. There, his armed-and-dangerous past was waiting for him, and the filmmaker winced when he looked it...Tags: Jim Carrey, Movies, Game Playing, Charlton Heston, Prosecution
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Shows to watch
'Babel' 7 p.m., Showtime Nominated in almost every major Academy Award cataegory, this critically acclaimed 2006 drama won only one -- for its score. Brad Pitt (right, shown with Cate Blanchett) stars in the Morocco segment about a vacationing couple...Tags: Movies, Cate Blanchett, Alaska, Clint Eastwood, Hugh Grant
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The spirits behind the writers
Horace reports that the 5th century Athenian poet Cratinus, in a light-hearted defense of his famed intemperance, declared, "No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers." Cratinus wasn't entirely kidding: Legend says...Tags: Hart Crane, Jack Kerouac, Alexander Pope, Poetry, New York Times
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'Summer Love' (the first Polish western, with hints of 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos')
Tribune arts criticThe characters are right out of the revisionist old West. The gunslinger, the jaded saloon barmaid, the dipsomaniacal sheriff, the vengeful posse. But the actors speak their English lines with Eastern European accents, and the clapboard town and barren...Tags: Movies, Val Kilmer, Samuel Beckett
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The hills are (sometimes) alive with the sound of movies
What a difference a song makes. And what a difference a movie can make for a song. Take "Singin' in the Rain." It has been ukulele ditty (Cliff Edwards in the 1920s), comedy (Jimmy Durante in the 1930s), swing (Judy Garland in the 1940s), ode to joy...Tags: Movies, Olivia Newton-John, Humphrey Bogart, Norman Jewison, Music Industry
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Ennio Morricone to receive honorary Oscar
The EnvelopeEnnio Morricone, the prolific film composer who has received five Academy Award nominations without winning, is finally getting an Oscar. Morricone, who had original score nominations for "Days of Heaven," "The Mission," "The Untouchables," "Bugsy" and...Tags: Movies, Culture, Academy Awards, Music Industry, Awards and Prizes
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Cult filmmaker Jodorowsky's bloody visions
Special to The TimesAs the first of a trio of his movies the Nuart is presenting over the next several days, Alejandro Jodorowsky's "El Topo" seems just as pretentious and shallow as it did more than 35 years ago, but, then as now, it is understandable why it caught on as...Tags: Movies, Clint Eastwood, Matthew Barney, Lon Chaney, Theft
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Morricone Scores Honorary Oscar
Zap2It.comWith more than 300 motion picture scores over a 45-year career, Ennio Morricone's credentials for an honorary Oscar seem to be in order. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday (Dec. 13) that after five nominations...Tags: Movies, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals
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Movie review: 'Seraphim Falls'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) "Seraphim Falls" is a movie some will relish and others will find a bit anachronistic. It's a violently exciting Western with a vision of the West that's grand, mythic and also full of near-surreal menace, starring two Irish-born...Tags: Movies, John Robinson, Clint Eastwood, John Ford, New Mexico
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