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Cannes Film Festival: Steven Spielberg heads jury
“We’re always sitting in personal private judgment of the films we see,” Steven Spielberg said Wednesday, in Wednesday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference introducing this year’s nine-person jury headed by Spielberg....
Tags: Academy Awards, Michael Haneke, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Justice System
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Readers share ratings, quibbles
The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Movies, Charles Bronson, Les Miserables (musical)
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Nate Silver: In Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything'
Predictability and the arts-and-entertainment world have an uneasy relationship. Predictability is a given — like the mouthfeel of a Big Mac — when it comes to, say, the punch lines on "Two and a Half Men" or the beats of your average...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Academy Awards, Judaism, Jack the Giant Slayer (movie), Lobbying
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'United in Anger': Documentary explores history of AIDS fight ★★★
We've arrived at a rich and instructive political moment. The president and his adversaries continue to negotiate an uneasy driving lesson to avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff while saving face. Moviegoers are turning out in heartening numbers for...
Tags: Movies, Food and Drug Administration, AIDS, How to Survive a Plague (movie), World AIDS Day
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Bishop visits Sharpsburg church
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg welcomed Bishop Ralph Dunkin of the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to its worship service April 21. Bishop Dunkin joined Pastor Karen Erskine Valentine and...
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Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Film Independent Spirit Awards, Academy Awards, Celebrities, Jennifer Lawrence
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Oh, How I Miss Joan Rivers' Bad Manners On The Red Carpet
The Hartford CourantI attended the Academy Awards this year, as I usually do. For the record I was wearing a gray T-shirt and a pair of plaid flannel pajama bottoms from the Ocean State Job Lot collection. I looked fabulous, at least that's what the person doing the...Tags: Joan Rivers, Academy Awards, Les Miserables (movie), Anne Hathaway, Movies
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Academy Awards, Judaism, Theater, Brave (movie), Jennifer Aniston
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...
Tags: Academy Awards, Django Unchained (movie), Movies, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Wreck-It Ralph (movie)
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Along the Abraham Lincoln spectrum
Opening this week, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is the latest screen incarnation of the 16th U.S. president's life, in this case the final few months of that substantial life, with the Civil War near the end and the passage of the 13th Amendment...
Tags: Gary Oldman, Movies, John Cromwell, Benjamin Walker, Steven Spielberg
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...
Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, National Football League, Steven Spielberg, The Master (movie)
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Oscars and American history: True, or true enough?
A modest proposal: Movies exploring some aspect of American history, such as “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” should leave off the “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events”...
Tags: Academy Awards, Artists, John Goodman, Steven Spielberg, Fiction
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