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The early years of David Lean, at UCLA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDon't expect to see any of David Lean's lavish epics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" at UCLA Film & Television Archive's retrospective of the Oscar-winning British director. The festival, which marks the...Tags: Charles Laughton, Cinema Industry, Venice, Moby, Film Festivals
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Irish Film Festival; Artivist Film Festival; John Huston retrospective
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIrish eyes are smiling over the City of Angels as the first Irish Film Festival of Los Angeles opens this evening at the Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills with "Eden," the latest movie from the producers of "Once." Directed by Declan Recks, the drama...Tags: Cinema Industry, Brad Bird, Film Festivals, Awards and Prizes, Marilyn Monroe
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'In Search of a Midnight Kiss' is smitten with L.A.
Special to The TimesIf a young filmmaker was to make a romantic comedy in Los Angeles, using the city not only as its setting but also as its guide, its muse, maybe even its soul, where might he be best-served in finding a model for such an undertaking? Oddly enough, he...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), New York, Cinema Industry, Santa Monica, In Search of a Midnight Kiss
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'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBefore the Devil Knows You're Dead ThinkFilm, $27.98 Kelly Masterson's screenplay for "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" elevates the hackneyed "crime story with a jumbled timeline" gimmick by using a fractured narrative to show how people want to...Tags: Genius Products Incorporated, New York, Crimes, Cults and Sects, Sexual Assault
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Palme d'Or goes to France's 'Entre les Murs'
Times Movie CriticWhat a difference 21 years makes. In 1987, the last time a French film won the Palme d'Or, the audience at the Palais du Festival was so angry at the choice of "Under the Sun of Satan" that it hooted furiously and the director, Maurice Pialat, yelled...Tags: Society, Giulio Andreotti, Film Festivals, Justice System, Celebrity Mothers
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Will Spielberg take a walk on the wild side?
Special to The TimesSteven Spielberg, who at 22 was hired by Universal to a long-term contract, started out his career as the teacher's pet of the Movie Brat generation. With the unveiling of his first Indiana Jones escapade in 19 years today at Cannes, he's proffering yet...Tags: Tom Cruise, Cinema Industry, The Amistad, Pauline Kael, Indiana Jones
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American Cinematheque salutes David Lean
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOscar-winning director David Lean was so obsessed with making movies that, lying on his deathbed 17 years ago, he was still determined to film "Nostromo," an epic drama based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. "The day before he died I visited him,"...Tags: Anthony Minghella, Steven Spielberg, Cinema Industry, Martin Scorsese, Los Angeles
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'Counterfeiters' actually is the genuine article
Sun Movie Critic(A) The Counterfeiters is in its own smart, trim fashion The Bridge on the River Kwai of concentration-camp sagas. Also based (like Kwai) on a real-life story, this movie starts small but becomes a miniature epic of overreach and moral drift. When we...Tags: Dance, Adolf Hitler, Arts, Ethics, Classical Music
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Anthony Minghella, director with an old soul
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen attempting to take in the rather shocking news of the death of British-born director, writer and producer Anthony Minghella at age 54, it's tough not to feel in part the passing of a unique creative force that connected audiences to another era. ....Tags: Anthony Minghella, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Matt Damon, Patricia Highsmith
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Take Oscars off TV
Last week, Patrick Goldstein wrote a lengthy critique of the Oscars in which he urged that the academy get real. Goldstein's complaints are completely valid as long as one assumes that the Academy Awards are first and foremost a TV show. He argues that...Tags: Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Consumer Electronics Industry, Awards and Prizes, Movies
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WATCHING
1 'Doctor Zhivago" 7 p.m., TCM Director David Lean's 1965 film is synonymous with "sweeping epic" and "sentimental drama." Julie Christie stars as Lara, a tender woman whose passion for her husband (Tom Courtenay) is blocked by his participation in the...Tags: Gary Oldman, Donald Trump, Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin, Television
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Ghostly visions of an Oscar
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"The Orphanage" made its illustrious debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year and, as its deeply unsettling story of mothers, children and ghosts unfolded on the screen, Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona heard a noise in the dark that gave him a...Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Fiction, Family
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