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25 movies added to National Film Registry
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the MIchael Sragow Gets Reel blog: Today the Library of Congress announced 25 more selections for the National Film Registry. The Registry is designed to highlight the American cinema's broad social-cultural significance as well as mark its key...Tags: Linda Blair, Testosterone, Comedy (genre), Denzel Washington, Spike Lee
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Ring in the new year with classic comedies
The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...
Tags: Leslie Caron, Comedy (genre), Cary Grant, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (movie), Gene Kelly
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Andrew Sarris dies at 83; longtime film critic
Film critic Andrew Sarris began his rise to prominence in the early 1960s when, fresh off an extended visit to Paris, he became a primary spokesman for a theory that would reverberate throughout the cinema world.
Screenwriters and producers may have...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Bogdanovich, Budd Boetticher, Billy Wilder, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
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Hollywood finds romance in travel
Love is always lovelier some place other than home. Well, at least in the celluloid universe.
Traveling by boat, train or even bus can lead to romantic entanglements in the movies, as does visiting über-romantic locales such as Rome, Paris and Venice. Of...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Tokyo (Japan), Eva Marie Saint, Giovanni Ribisi, Meryl Streep
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Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week
24 FramesWith Gary Oldman getting strong reviews and Oscar buzz for his performance as spy George Smiley in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, the Arclight in Hollywood is offering a six-film retrospective of the British actor’s career beginning... -
Merry Christmas! Ralphie lands at 8 p.m. Friday on TBS
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe best Christmas movies bring back the memories. And television will supply the fare for a long sentimental journey, if you're inclined.... -
Why can't Nancy Meyers get any respect?
The Big PictureIt's hardly a surprise that the critics, who tend to view Nancy Meyers like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, will have their knives out for "It's Complicated" when it opens Christmas Day. At Rotten Tomatoes, where some of the...... -
Scorsese finally joins the club
Times Staff WriterHaving won the Oscar for best picture, "The Departed" will always, from here to eternity, have an aura of distinction, like a suave white-haired gent gliding into the Governors Ball in his tuxedo. But once the hoopla dies — and in Hollywood, hoopla...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Anxiety, Laurence Olivier, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges
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Paul Newman: A Legend Dies At 83
SPECIAL TO THE COURANTPaul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only son. A citizen activist who campaigned for liberal...Tags: Comedy (genre), Sidney Lumet, Barbra Streisand, Drugs and Medicines, Trumbo (movie)
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Movie review: 'The Holiday'
Tribune movie critic2 stars (out of four) This one's more of a working vacation. "The Holiday" is a 131-minute romantic comedy for those who, if they had their way, would still be watching "Love Actually." Star power is not nothing, though, and "The Holiday" has that...Tags: Michael Phillips, Mark Twain, Preston Sturges, Edward Burns, Comedy (genre)
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Movie review: Going Shopping'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Making a simple, natural, humanistic movie about shopaholics and boutique owners in L.A. might seem a pretty weird proposition, even for a low-budget American indie by a card-carrying maverick such as Henry Jaglom. But Jaglom's...Tags: Lee Grant, Cary Grant, Documentary (genre), Dennis Hopper, Irene Dunne
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Milan Kundera, Warren Beatty, Comedy (genre), Denzel Washington, Spike Lee
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