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'Baghead,' 'CSNY/Déjà Vu,' 'A Man Named Pearl,' 'Love Comes Lately' and more
It would be best to simply recommend "Baghead" without any description so its surprises could remain intact. Nevertheless . . .
The characters are struggling actors with relationship complications who decide to write a movie to showcase themselves. But...Tags: Movies, Neil Young, Santa Monica, Music, Celebrity
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Making sense of Hollywood -- in print
Special to The TimesApril 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...Tags: Newspapers, Movies, Books and Magazines, New York Times, Samuel Fuller
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STAGE: 'Teen Girl' and other newcomers
Playwright Justin Tanner takes an uncharacteristic segue into sweetness in his 1992 coming-of-age play, "Teen Girl," now in revival at the Zephyr. "Girl" is not the acid-etched indictment of soulless suburban life so typical of Tanner but a scrawled...Tags: Melrose, People, Music, Jennifer Tilly, Ansonia
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'I'm Not There' double-disc DVD helps decode a pop culture puzzle
I'm Not There
The Weinstein Co., $29.99
To find out whether you prefer more of a "Cate Blanchett" Dylan or a "Richard Gere" Dylan, you'll have to consult Todd Haynes' freewheelin' big-screen riff on the legendary singer-songwriter, in which six actors...Tags: Cate Blanchett, Movies, Heavy Engineering, Meryl Streep, Film Festivals
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'Smart People' (stars Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page)
Tribune movie critic"Smart People" is an effortful attempt at the sort of trenchant comedy a film such as "Sideways" managed without breaking a sweat. It also poses an interesting question regarding top-billed Dennis Quaid. Why is it that he comes off well in certain roles...Tags: Movies, Harrison Ford, Todd Haynes, Colleges and Universities, Book
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'Married Life' isn't all it's cracked up to be
NewsdayThere's little in Married Life, Ira Sachs' burnished blend of psychological suspense thriller and comedy of manners, that those devoted to the storytelling of John Updike, Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock haven't encountered before. Subdued passions,...Tags: Chris Cooper, John Updike, Family, Alfred Hitchcock, Marriage
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The Master's style, without the Master's passion
Special to the TribuneFor the first few minutes, it's easy to see "Married Life" as an early Alfred Hitchcock film. The year is 1949, and Pierce Brosnan's elegant, mannered narration sets the scene as he and old friend Harry ( Chris Cooper) meet in an upscale supper club. They...Tags: Chris Cooper, Movies, Evanston, Crimes, Marriage
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The ABCs of the new season
Tribune movie criticThe fall movie season has a way of supplanting the cash crop known as the summer picture, allowing more exotic and diverse vegetation to thrive in time for awards season and year-end best lists. The industry can afford a little quality. This summer's U....Tags: Casey Affleck, Denzel Washington, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Caine, Jerry Seinfeld
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Hollywood: Being an extra where the action is
peggy.brown@newsday.comHey, there's Will Ferrell on the basketball court! About as far away as the height of his giant "Elf" ... closer than a car length for his racing legend Ricky Bobby. He's so close that we could scamper down the bleachers and shoot hoops with him in the...Tags: Sean Penn, Movies, Owen Wilson, Lana Turner, Celebrity
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Movie Review: 'Why Did I Get Married?' explores the question of its title
Sentinel Movie CriticTyler Perry knows his audience. His shows are stage-tested hits, laugh-lines polished for maximum giggles. And he's learning how to make movies. His latest stage-to-screen adaptation, Why Did I Get Married?, has the shiny veneer not just of African-...Tags: Movies, Janet Jackson, Phil McGraw, Minority Groups, Roger Moore
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RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES (PG). At his most elegant ("Raise the Red Lantern") or politically provocative ("To Live"), China's Zhang Yimou has always been a sentimentalist - even if sentiment has always been the premium, not the objective....Tags: John Anderson, Movies, Theater, Andy Warhol, Pennsylvania
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'Fido'
Special to The TimesA crafty mixture of George Romero and Douglas Sirk, "Fido" is a boy and his zombie movie that may have an unusually pastoral color scheme but tears into its many satirical targets — war, class, nuclear families, the '50s, our culture of death and...Tags: Movies, Family, Santa Monica, Henry Czerny, Billy Connolly
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