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Werner Herzog to receive documentary award
The International Documentary Assn. will present Werner Herzog with its 2008 career achievement award at the 24th annual IDA Documentary Awards ceremony.
"Werner is a true original, and we are extremely proud to recognize his vast and unique...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Ken Burns, Ceremonies, Michael Moore, Society
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No joy ride
A Los Angeles man claims in a lawsuit that Gene Simmons took him for a ride on a marketing deal with the Indy Racing League. Allan Brown is suing Simmons and two business partners, claiming the group cut him out of a 2006 deal between the Kiss bassist...Tags: Gene Simmons, Bob Newhart, Indianapolis 500, Michael Keaton, Los Angeles
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'Grizzly Man Diaries' provides brutal look at life among bears
The Boston Globe"The Grizzly Man Diaries" (8 p.m. Friday), Animal Planet's new series, is a very unlikely spinoff. The disturbing tone of "Grizzly Man," the 2005 documentary about the life and violent death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, seemed to close off...Tags: Animals, Alaska
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Cinema as art
Baltimore movie-lovers voiced concern when the Baltimore Museum of Art canceled its free monthly film series. For two years, Eric Hatch, the series' programmer, had put together a lively and original slate that typically attracted 150 to 200 people,...Tags: Billy Wilder, Maryland, Maryland Film Festival, Stanley Kubrick, Beau Bridges
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Stiller toughs it out with 'Tropic' ensemble
Tribune NewspapersVANCOUVER— Ben Stiller handed them out to cast and crew at the conclusion of a punishing 13-week location shoot as a gesture of thanks but also contrition: T-shirts that read "I survived Ben Stiller's comedy death camp." Sitting at a bayside...Tags: Mental Illness, Cinema Industry, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saturday Night Live, Robert Downey Jr.
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Herzog's 'Encounters' Is Useful And Transcendent
Chicago TribuneWerner Herzog is a magnet for obsessives, and his lovely new film, "Encounters at the End of the World," takes you places an ordinary documentary filmmaker might've gone to yet missed completely. Herzog traveled to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, a U.S.-...Tags: Roger Ebert, Movies
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New show thumbs its nose at quality criticism
This weekend, when Roger Ebert severs ties with the nationally syndicated movie review show that had been his broadcast pulpit for most of its 33 years, when jumpy Richard Roeper (who replaced lanky Gene Siskel in 2000) bids adieu to the sacred cultural...Tags: Charlie Sheen, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Ryan Seacrest, Mass Media
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Coming soon
Next Friday ALEXANDRA (Cinema Guild) Opera star Galina Vishnevskaya plays an elderly woman visiting her grandson, an army officer, at his base in Chechnya. THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS (IFC First Take) A handsome general and a married coquette play dangerous...Tags: Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen, David Duchovny, Sony Corp., Gillian Anderson
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Ebert Gains Clout On Web
Associated PressRoger Ebert is gone from "At the Movies," but he's an increasingly influential figure in the new dominant realm of film criticism: the Web. Ebert last week announced he was leaving the long-televised show he began with Gene Siskel — in its earliest...Tags: Reviews, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Encounters at the End of the World, Newspaper and Magazine
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Odd splendor in Antarctica
(A-) Werner Herzog is a magnet for obsessives, and his lovely new film, Encounters at the End of the World, takes you places an ordinary documentary filmmaker might've gone to yet missed completely. At the invitation of the National Science Foundation,...Tags: Roger Ebert, Encounters at the End of the World, Movies
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'Grizzly Man Diaries' On Animal Planet; Bill Maher Returns On HBO
Timothy Treadwell was that enthusiastic, slightly addled naturist who filmed himself getting closer and closer to grizzly bears for 10 years in Alaska's Katmai National Park until it all ended in a bear attack. His tragic story was told in Werner Herzog'...Tags: Pierce Brosnan, Music Industry, Jay Leno, Television Industry, Tyrese
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'Mr. Lonely'
The late Stu Troup, Newsday's former jazz writer, once said of Wynton Marsalis that he'd never be great until someone broke his heart. With this in mind, you have to wonder about the emotional breadth and crazy beauty of "Mister Lonely" and how it now...Tags: John Anderson, Leos Carax, Manhattan (New York City), Harmony Korine, Wynton Marsalis
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