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Astronomer's frontman lives on steady diet of inspiration
Special to the Chicago TribuneCountless authors struggle with writer's block, often spending untold hours staring at blank computer screens, filling trash cans with crumpled legal sheets and, as Nicolas Cage's screenwriter demonstrates in "Adaptation," bargaining with themselves....Tags: MySpace, Montrose, Folk Music, Nicolas Cage, Astronomy
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Live: Tom Waits
Times Pop Music CriticPHOENIX -- The sprawling, brawling concert Tom Waits gave here Tuesday, opening his Glitter and Doom tour with two nights at the city's grand old Orpheum, found its central image, unsurprisingly, in a hat. This wasn't just any of the countless porkpies...Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Popular Music, Tom Waits, Elvis Presley, Bo Diddley
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'Redbelt' complex? Yes, it's Mamet
(B) Peer pressure is tough, especially when it's pervasive, grown-up and institutionalized. In samurai movies, as in Westerns, the warrior is often faced with a choice between individual morality and fealty to the tribe. Individual morality tends to...Tags: David Mamet, Tim Allen, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Sony Corp., Corruption
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'Redbelt'
Times Movie CriticPeer pressure is tough, especially when it's pervasive, grown-up and institutionalized. In samurai movies, as in westerns, the warrior is often faced with a choice between individual morality and fealty to the tribe. Individual morality tends to prevail...Tags: David Mamet, Tim Allen, Corruption, Corporate Crime
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Film Noir Great Samuel Fuller Book's Theme
Courant Staff WriterWhen Lisa Dombrowski was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in 1992, she took a class in film noir and arranged a screening of the Samuel Fuller classic "Shock Corridor." By the time the film was over, Dombrowski was so tense she was sitting in a...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Wesleyan University, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Robbins
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'Wristcutters: A Love Story'
jan.stuart@newsday.comThe suicidal characters of Goran Dukic's road comedy dwell together in a mirthless afterlife that looks very much like waking life, if all bright colors were washed away and the landscape were strewn with detritus. A recent addition to the populace is...Tags: Patrick Fugit, Tom Waits
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Movie review: 'Delirious'
Special to the Tribune3 stars (out of four) Writer-director Tom DiCillo takes the same approach to his films as he has to his career: There's a general theme, but the execution is all over the place. A former cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch (on "Permanent Vacation" and...Tags: Gina Gershon, Cinema Industry, Steve Buscemi, Music Box Theatre
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Without smoking, films lose some fire
THE PORTRAIT photographer Marion Ettlinger once told me that the worst thing to ever happen to her art form was the demise of smoking. A cigarette, after all, not only gives a subject something to do with his hands, it seems to provide an uncanny cure for...Tags: John Cassavetes, Peter Bogdanovich, Photography
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Movie review: 'Factotum'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Factotum," starring Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor in two of their best film performances, is a good movie about the L.A. underbelly, as recalled by an expert: Charles Bukowski. Adapted and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer...Tags: Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon, Barbet Schroeder, Charles Bukowski, Lili Taylor
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In praise of a tiny thing
Special to The TimesMost directors believe movies deliver their strongest impact when splashed across 40 feet of widescreen, but Jonas Mekas, the 84-year-old poet, avant-garde film diarist and former columnist for the Village Voice, is praising a new — and to him...Tags: Greenpoint, Cinema Industry, New Products, Academy Awards, Film Festivals
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