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Hollywood takes a backseat at Venice film festival
Big Hollywood studios will take a back seat at this year's Venice film festival, with the competition lineup highlighting independent U.S. cinema, Italian productions and Japanese animation movies.
Festival director Marco Mueller said the lighter...Tags: Charlize Theron, Mario, Movies, Debra Winger, Ethan Coen
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'Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi' by Jon M. Gibson and Chris McDonnell
Special to The TimesJune 26, 2008 It's strange to recall that during the early 1970s Ralph Bakshi was hailed as the filmmaker who would revitalize the American animated feature. Thirty-five years later, except for "Fritz the Cat" (1972) and the cult favorite "Wizards"...Tags: Animation, Walt Disney, CBS Corp., Movies, Brad Pitt
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The week's best bets for kids
"Johnny and the Sprites": Broadway performer Chita Rivera guest-stars as the Queen of All Magical Beings in the new episode "Johnny's Not Invited." She's hosting an event for all the creatures in Grotto's Grove, and the Sprites gather the courage to ask...Tags: James Williams, Commuting, Movies, Michael J Fox, Easter
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Discoveries
Translucent Tree A Novel Nobuko Takagi, translated from the Japanese by Deborah Iwabuchi Vertical: 188 pp., $19.95 Who can really say when an artist sees the core of a culture -- certainly not a critic living thousands of miles away. All I know is,...Tags: Movies, Prostitution, Book, Hunting, Jane Austen
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'Paprika' illustrates a pipe dream
(B) The girl of your dreams -- and his dreams and her dreams -- the punkish heroine of Satoshi Kon's Paprika, is a double-agent-provocateur in a shape-shifting movie of marvelous, baffling complexities. It's a long way from the work of that Japanese Walt...Tags: Walt Disney, John Anderson, Movies, Sony Corp., Satoshi Kon
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Oscar gets in 'toon
The EnvelopeToday is 'toon day at the Academy. Final entries are due today to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to qualify for this year's best animated feature film Oscar. But the real question is not necessarily: "What will make the final cut?"...Tags: Animation, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Political Candidates, Luc Besson
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'Happy Feet
Times Staff WriterIf there is such a thing as your standard penguin movie, "Happy Feet" isn't it. But with George Miller involved, how could it be? The Australian filmmaker, whose credits range from writing and producing "Babe" to writing and directing "Mad Max," doesn'...Tags: Animation, Al Gore, Movies, Hugh Jackman, Barry White
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'Paprika'
Special to The TimesThe girl of your dreams — and his dreams, and her dreams — the punkish heroine of Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" is a double-agent-provocateur in a shape-shifting movie of marvelous, baffling complexities. It's a long way from the more safely...Tags: Walt Disney, John Anderson, Movies, Satoshi Kon
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Movie review: 'Paprika'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Movies, it's often said, are the art form that most closely suggests the dream state--and "Paprika" is pretty joyously dreamy and disorienting for much of its length. Director/co-writer Satoshi Kon is a virtuoso of Japanese anime;...Tags: John Ford, Health Treatments, Evanston, Movies, Satoshi Kon
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Dakota Fanning Can Finally Vote ... For the Oscars
Zap2It.comWe'd say that Dakota Fanning is too young to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but as long as she swears she wouldn't have voted for "Crash," it's all good. Fanning, the 12-year-old star of "War of the Worlds" and...Tags: Dolly Parton, Dakota Fanning, Government, Eric Bana, Ving Rhames
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Michael Wilmington's Top 10 of 2005
Tribune movie criticThere's an old cliche of movie history that really fits this year's movies: The films of 2005 -- especially the best ones -- kept shifting between the two great movie extremes of realism and fantasy. Sometimes, they plunged us into harsh truth, as with...Tags: David Cronenberg, Eric Bana, Robert Rodriguez, Woody Allen, Billy Crystal
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