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Restored 'Once Upon a Time in the West' at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSergio Leone's 1968 masterwork, “Once Upon a Time in the West,” was showing the ravages of time. The negative that Paramount Pictures had been using over the years to strike prints was getting old and frayed, and the color was shifting. But...Tags: Movies, Fiction, Clint Eastwood, Paramount, Dario Argento
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'The Go-Getter'
Times Movie CriticWhen his mother dies after a long illness, Mercer White (Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a beat-up old Volvo from a carwash and takes off on the great American hipster road trip. Mercer is in search of his long-lost, half-Mexican half-brother, Arlen, whom he...Tags: Movies, Martin Hynes, Bill Duke, Rugby League, Metal
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Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON a recent afternoon at the Warner Bros. lot, Clint Eastwood took a break from a long day in the editing bay and strolled over to a hushed screening room. There, his armed-and-dangerous past was waiting for him, and the filmmaker winced when he looked it...Tags: Movies, John Ford, Prosecution, Don Siegel, Pauline Kael
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Experiencing director Dario Argento, in stages, on DVD
Special to The TimesTHE ITALIAN horror maestro Dario Argento is a long way from the glorious first decade or so of his career, when he seemed continually to be expanding the possibilities and ignoring the rules of the genre. His movies since the mid-'80s have seldom...Tags: Movies, Murder, Piper Laurie, Jimmy Stewart, Jennifer Connelly
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Critics' picks for reel experience
Here are some recommendations: Friday Getting the lowdown on the U.S.' increasingly desperate financial straits may not seem an appropriately celebratory way to kick off the first full day of 2008 festival-going. But Patrick Creadon's I.O.U.S.A. (11:30 a....Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Organized Crime, Renee Zellweger, Claude Chabrol
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Shows to watch
'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' 7 p.m., WLS-Ch. 7 A mysterious force threatens Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the totally captivating second movie adapted from J.K. Rowling's novels. Harry, Ron and Hermione (Daniel Radcliffe...Tags: Harry Potter, Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Kenneth Branagh, Clint Eastwood
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The spirits behind the writers
Horace reports that the 5th century Athenian poet Cratinus, in a light-hearted defense of his famed intemperance, declared, "No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers." Cratinus wasn't entirely kidding: Legend says...Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Beverage Industry, Alexander Pope, William Faulkner, Mass Media
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Shows to watch
'Babel' 7 p.m., Showtime Nominated in almost every major Academy Award cataegory, this critically acclaimed 2006 drama won only one -- for its score. Brad Pitt (right, shown with Cate Blanchett) stars in the Morocco segment about a vacationing couple...Tags: Movies, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Clint Eastwood
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'Summer Love' (the first Polish western, with hints of 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos')
Tribune arts criticThe characters are right out of the revisionist old West. The gunslinger, the jaded saloon barmaid, the dipsomaniacal sheriff, the vengeful posse. But the actors speak their English lines with Eastern European accents, and the clapboard town and barren...Tags: Val Kilmer, Samuel Beckett
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The hills are (sometimes) alive with the sound of movies
What a difference a song makes. And what a difference a movie can make for a song. Take "Singin' in the Rain." It has been ukulele ditty (Cliff Edwards in the 1920s), comedy (Jimmy Durante in the 1930s), swing (Judy Garland in the 1940s), ode to joy...Tags: Richard Strauss, Kenny Loggins, Classical Music, Music Industry, Gene Kelly
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