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Investigator to the Stars Is Convicted in Wiretaps (16 May 11:45) |
| Anthony Pellicano was a ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable Hollywood fixer.
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John Phillip Law, 70, Film Actor, Is Dead (16 May 11:18) |
| Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Comin... |
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Movie Review | 'Reprise': Two Friends, Two Novels, One Mailbox: Lives at the Speed of Ambition (16 May 10:18) |
| An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry, “Reprise” is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure.
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Movie Review | 'Sangre de Mi Sangre': A Teenager’s Betrayal in Brooklyn (16 May 10:18) |
| Although “Sangre de Mi Sangre” exhibits a heartfelt connection with illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are frustrating.
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Movie Review: When Selling a Soul, Consider the Price (16 May 10:17) |
| Christian Petzold’s enigmatic thriller “Yella” offers a surreal X-ray vision of cutthroat capitalism in 21st-century Germany.
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Movie Review | 'My Father My Lord': Another Abraham’s Story, With a Different Ending (16 May 10:16) |
| “My Father My Lord” observes the severe family life of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.
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Movie Review | 'Quantum Hoops': This Is Basketball, Boys; It’s Not Rocket Science (16 May 10:15) |
| “Quantum Hoops” tells the story of the California Institute of Technology’s men’s basketball team — a farcical topic in the context of college sports.
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Investigator Guilty in Hollywood Wiretapping Case (16 May 07:11) |
| Anthony Pellicano was found guilty of using illegal tactics to gather information for rich and famous clients.
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Movie Review | 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian': Out of the Wardrobe, Into a War Zone (16 May 03:39) |
| Child kings and queens land in a Jacobean tragedy with “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.”
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Film: Shaking Up the Crowd at Cannes (16 May 03:36) |
| The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.
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Pellicano Guilty in Hollywood Wiretapping Case (16 May 03:28) |
| Anthony Pellicano was found guilty in a federal court in Los Angeles of racketeering for using wiretaps and other tactics to target the rich and famous.
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For Movies, a Summer That’s Shy on Sequels (15 May 08:25) |
| With this year’s crop of summer movies, Hollywood may have trouble topping last year’s success.
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HBO Film About 2000 Recount Draws Protests From Democrats (14 May 10:59) |
| Some prominent former advisers to Al Gore say that a coming HBO film dramatizing the ballot battle after the 2000 election unfairly blames them for the Democrats’ failure to secure the Whi... |
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Movie Review | 'Paraguayan Hammock': In Paraguay, Time Melts in the Torpid Air (14 May 09:38) |
| That “Paraguayan Hammock” happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity.
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Uncertain Futures for Bounty at Cannes (14 May 09:14) |
| With the 61st Cannes Film Festival, hurdles lie between festival screens and American theaters.
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Mitchell Leisen and ‘The Big Trail’ (13 May 09:11) |
| This week’s DVDs include two films from the director Mitchell Leisen and Raoul Walsh’s 1930 epic western, “The Big Trail.”
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Production of a Movie Stops Over Funds to Pay Its Stars (12 May 09:19) |
| Production was halted after producers of the film failed to keep sufficient funds to pay actors in a union-mandated account.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Iron Man’ Shows Muscle (12 May 08:27) |
| “Iron Man” extended its run as the No. 1 box-office attraction by pulling in $50.5 million over the weekend at movie theaters in North America.
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Indiana Jones Is Battling the Long Knives of the Internet (10 May 09:26) |
| An online review of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie breaches the Spielberg film’s tight security.
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Return Laps for the First Voice of Speed Racer (10 May 09:14) |
| Peter Fernandez, who voiced the role of the hero in the original animated “Speed Racer” series, makes a cameo appearance in the big-screen, live-action adaptation of the show.
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Film: 50 Years of Dizzy, Courtesy of Hitchcock (10 May 04:46) |
| When “Vertigo” hit screens a half-century ago, it was not at all what audiences had come to expect from the master of suspense.
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Cinematic Life in Oslo (Where Else?) (10 May 04:41) |
| “Reprise” shows some parallels between its characters and the two men behind the movie.
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Film: Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image (10 May 04:19) |
| Mike Tyson, his days as heavyweight champion long behind him, finds himself on an unlikely path forward as a new documentary about his life makes its premiere at Cannes.
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Film: Special Effects From the Real World (10 May 04:05) |
| Tarsem, the director of “The Fall,” didn’t need computergenerated dazzle. Just ask the swimming elephant.
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Questions for Jay Roach: Ballot Box Office (10 May 03:44) |
| The director talks about his HBO docudrama on the Florida recount, how you know you’re funny and the difficulties of running for office.
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Movie Review | 'Frontier(s)': After Making It Out of Paris, Finding There’s No Escape (09 May 10:17) |
| The real surprise of “Frontier(s)” is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.
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Movie Review | 'Turn the River': When Life Gives Lemons, Pick Up a Pool Stick (09 May 10:16) |
| “Turn the River” is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
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Movie Review | 'The Tracey Fragments': Average Teenage Girl, Assembling a Life Without a Set of Instructions (09 May 10:07) |
| Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, “The Tracey Fragments” seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.
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To Reduce Costs, Warner Brothers Closing 2 Film Divisions (09 May 09:51) |
| The company said closing Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures was a cost-cutting move rooted in the changing economics of the specialty film business.
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Movie Review | 'Dilemma': The Sights and Sounds of Oppression (09 May 08:51) |
| “Dilemma” is an earnest if schematic attempt to address conditions in Johannesburg under apartheid.
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Movie Review | 'Bloodline': A Mystery With No Resolution (09 May 08:40) |
| The sensationalistic documentary “Bloodline” explores the supposition that there exists a lineage traceable to Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
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Movie Review | 'Refusenik': A Portrait of Perseverance (09 May 08:32) |
| “Refusenik” falls short as entertainment because of the plodding, overly studious approach of the director, Laura Bialis.
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Movie Review | 'Unsettled': Youthful Energy and Religious Pain (09 May 08:18) |
| Adam Hootnick’s “Unsettled” makes the political personal, drawing a scattershot yet intimate picture of a nation divided.
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Movie Review | 'A Previous Engagement': Caught Between Her Passion and Her Pension (09 May 08:07) |
| More tired than the fantasy it promotes, “A Previous Engagement” aims at middle-aged women with the subtlety of a pitch for bladder-control medication.
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Movie Review | 'The Memory Thief': The Filling of an Empty Soul (09 May 07:56) |
| In “The Memory Thief,” a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
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Movie Review | 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead': Going for the Finger-Licking Gusto (09 May 07:48) |
| “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
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Movie Review | 'Vice': A Cop in a Tailspin (09 May 07:39) |
| “Vice,” a muddled, disposable crime thriller, has modest merits.
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Movie Review | 'The Fall': Broken Spirits on the Mend (09 May 07:18) |
| Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, “The Fall” is a genuine labor of love — and a real bore.
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Movie Review | 'Meet Bill': Finding Your Bliss? Losing Your Mind (09 May 07:05) |
| Male midlife crisis presents as pathological self-loathing in “Meet Bill,” an imperative to which the only sane response is: No thanks.
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Movie Review | 'The Babysitters': From High School Student to Ruthless Madam (09 May 06:57) |
| Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, “The Babysitters” has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.
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Movie Review | 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies': A Dashing Agent in Egypt (09 May 06:49) |
| The hero of “OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” might be described as a French equivalent of James Bond.
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Movie Review | 'Noise': Aural Examination (09 May 06:34) |
| “Noise,” the second part of a projected “fanatic trilogy,” is shallow and loud.
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Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own (09 May 05:17) |
| “Surfwise” has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it’s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
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Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines (09 May 03:41) |
| “Speed Racer” sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
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Movie Review | 'Before the Rains': After Them the Monsoon: Two Worlds Collide in India (09 May 03:35) |
| The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan’s period piece “Before the Rains” may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.
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Movie Review | 'What Happens in Vegas': Morning Hangover, Spouse and Jackpot (09 May 03:28) |
| “What Happens in Vegas,” one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won’t make you laugh much or at all.
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Stalker's Mother Recalls His Early Days of Promise (08 May 05:13) |
| The mother of the man convicted of stalking the actress Uma Thurman recalls her son’s better days.
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Advertising: Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started (08 May 03:12) |
| Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
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A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply) (08 May 11:31) |
| Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota’s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
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Disney’s Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage (08 May 09:35) |
| A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
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