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'Ember' director enjoys creating fantastical films
Sentinel Movie CriticGil Kenan first gained notice as an animation director. He taught a generation of kids that animation could be just as scary as live action with Monster House. He just signed with producer Robert Zemeckis to do Airmen, an animated children's adventure...Tags: Animation, Film Festivals, Academy Awards, Tim Robbins, Celebrity
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'Man on Wire'--4 stars (excellent): Long-ago prank now a homage
Tribune criticOn a misty day in August 1974, 1,350 feet above the Manhattan streets, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes gliding back and forth between the south and the north towers of the World Trade Center, eight crossings in all. " Man on Wire"...Tags: Natural Resources, August, Peter Greenaway, Man on Wire, Wetlands
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Anita Briem in 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'
Special to The TimesKNOWING THAT Iceland's Anita Briem is trained in broadsword combat and jeet kune do, one might expect the actress who plays intrepid mountain guide Hannah Ásgeirsson in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" to resemble a female freight train -- maybe...Tags: Brendan Fraser, Cameron Diaz, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, James Cameron
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Movie Review: 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'
Next year at least 11 different 3-D pictures will compete for the pleasure of the company of your eyeballs. By the time James Cameron's "Avatar" opens in December 2009, a spotty, unreliable cinematic tradition may well have reached critical mass and found...Tags: Brendan Fraser, Angelina Jolie, James Mason, James Cameron, Jules Verne
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Claire Griswold, Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack was remembered by some of the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," ''Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," not only for his Academy Award-winning direction, but also for his acting talents. Pollack, diagnosed with cancer...Tags: Quincy Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Pacific Palisades, Meryl Streep, Academy Awards
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'Beowulf' comes off less than heroic
Sun Movie Critic(C-) Owing more to the sword-and-sex-play fantasies of 12-year-olds than the traditions of Old English poetry, Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf will allow adolescents to have their cheesecake - and beefcake - and eat it, too. Old Hollywood's moviemakers used...Tags: Blake Edwards, Crispin Clover, Brad Pitt, Celebrity Mothers, Robin Wright Penn
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Jim Carrey Teams With Jason Reitman for 'Pierre'
Zap2It.comJim Carrey will star for Oscar nominated "Juno" director Jason Reitman on Fox Atomic's comedy "Pierre, Pierre." According to the industry trades, the project is based around a spec script from Edwin Cannistraci and Fredrick Seton and will be produced...Tags: Diablo Cody, Jim Carrey
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Ewan McGregor Romances Jim Carrey
Zap2It.comJim Carrey has found a love interest for his new dark comedy, but the identity of that on-screen romance will surprise some viewers. According to Variety, Ewan McGregor will appear opposite Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris," an independently produced...Tags: Corporate Crime, Prisons, Woody Allen, Jim Carrey, Fraud
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National Film Registry Has 'Close Encounters'
Zap2It.comMarty McFly and Curly McLain now have a place in the Library of Congress. Along with 23 other films, "Back to the Future" and "Oklahoma!" were made part of the library's National Film Registry this week. The Library of Congress selects 25 "culturally,...Tags: Christopher LLoyd, Government, National Government, John Ford, Preston Sturges
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Selling 'Be Kind Rewind' with a slapdash of humor
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Gondry's upcoming comedy "Be Kind Rewind," Jack Black and Mos Def play accidental auteurs -- a couple of knock-around film novices who end up making movie magic with a minimum of resources: tin foil and cardboard, a...Tags: Film Festivals, Google Inc., Mos Def, MySpace, Michel Gondry
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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: Hayao Miyazaki, Animation, Film Festivals, Academy Awards, Jerry Seinfeld
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Jolie and Pitt attend UK premiere of 'Beowulf'
Angelina Jolie brought her boyfriend, Brad Pitt, to the British premiere of her movie "Beowulf," but he let her have the limelight.
Jolie, wearing black leather trousers and a tight sweater, signed autographs and chatted with fans Sunday in London's...Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Celebrity Mothers, Anthony Hopkins, Celebrity
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