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A siren of the silent silver screen
LOS ANGELES — Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died. She was 98. Ms. Page died in her sleep Saturday at her home in Los...Tags: Clark Gable, New York, Movies, Buster Keaton, Los Angeles
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Anthony Mann's 'The Furies'
Special to The TimesIT HAS been a good DVD year for Anthony Mann (1906-67), a longtime critics' favorite often considered one of Hollywood's most underrated directors. Mann's relatively low name recognition might have something to do with the ease with which he slipped from...Tags: Film Festivals, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Movies, Anthony Mann
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Taking a peek into holiday boxes
Newsday Movie CriticsIt's the holiday season and time for film, TV and music distributors to pump out those box sets, many of which are just repackaging of already released stuff - the industry's equivalent of re-gifting. But there are also some real keepers in the mix, such...Tags: Sean Connery, Drew Barrymore, Family, Movies, Roger Moore
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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: Pierce Brosnan, Movies, Wars and Interventions, Anthony Mann, Anjelica Huston
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As Good as It Gets for Winners
Times Staff WritersFrom The Times: March 24, 1998 For Helen Hunt it was a day — and a night — when her blossoming movie career and blooming TV career came together. Earlier in the day she announced she'll return next season for another year of her hit NBC sitcom "Mad About...Tags: Celebrity, Kim Basinger, Curtis Hanson, Movies, Jack Nicholson
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'Rings' takes 11
Times Staff WriterThe Academy Awards' glass ceiling for fantasy films was shattered Sunday when 11 Oscars, including those for best picture and director, were showered on "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," the final installment of director Peter Jackson's...Tags: Celebrity, Movies, Charlize Theron, Television, Wars and Interventions
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Movie review: 'The Big Bounce'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 stars (out of 4) Crime movies can be either tight and tense or irreverently funny, and in the hands of a pro's pro like writer Elmore Leonard and a neat director like George Armitage, they can be both at once. "The Big Bounce" is the latest movie...Tags: Harry Dean Stanton, Elmore Leonard, Movies, Owen Wilson, Roger Corman
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5 films that turn up the heat
1. "Traffic" 4 stars An inspiringly good movie on a depressing subject, the losing battles being waged in America's long-running war on drugs, set in the heat of Mexico. This film has no pat answers; instead, we take a multi-track tour of the cocaine...Tags: Ossie Davis, Michael Douglas, David Lean, Rosie Perez, Movies
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5 films with gold in them thar plots
1. "The Gold Rush" (CHARLES CHAPLIN; 1925) 4 stars The funniest -- and almost the saddest -- silent comedy. Chaplin's little tramp prospects for gold in the Yukon, where he runs afoul of snowy elements and villainy, and shyly woos a dance hall girl...Tags: Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Erich von Stroheim, Klaus Kinski, John Huston
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5 films that are classic British murder mysteries
1. THE LODGER (Alfred Hitchcock; 1926) 4 stars Hitchcock's first thriller and the film that established him: A moody silent melodrama based on Marie Belloc Lowndes' tale of a mysterious lodger in fear-crazed London, who may be a modern Jack the Ripper....Tags: Sean Connery, Tyrone Power Sr., Movies, Crimes, Barry Fitzgerald
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5 films that are classic comedy mysteries
1. SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton; 1924) 4 stars The surreal Keaton short feature, packed with ingenious gags, in which he plays a movie projectionist and amateur private detective who falls asleep and dreams himself into the movie he's showing: a...Tags: Tyrone Power Sr., Alan Ladd, Movies, Crimes, Michael Redgrave
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Top winners from 1936
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Columbia Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in DODSWORTH Samuel Goldwyn Productions; UA Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in THE STORY OF LOUIS...Tags: Celebrity, Basil Rathbone, Movies, Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan
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