Sunday, February 14, 2010 - Posts
Romania has been enjoying its own new wave in cinema in the last few years.
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Daniel Monzon's prison drama "Cell 211" walked away the grand winner at the 24th Goya Awards, Spain's top film honors.
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Advertised as the first Russian film about drag queens, writer/director Felix Mikhailov's "Jolly Fellows" vaunts the brash, in-your-face liveliness of a debut film on a naughty topic.
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Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" is a remarkable high-wire act, performed without a net and exploiting all the accumulated skills of a consummate artist. It dazzles and provokes. But when did Scorsese become a circus performer?
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In its ninth round on the foreign circuit, "Avatar" defiantly stared down the overseas openings of three films from major studios, emerging as No. 1 for the weekend with $59 million.
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"The Hurt Locker," "Avatar" and "Sherlock Holmes" were the big feature-film winners at the Art Directors Guild's 14th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, where they topped the categories for contemporary, fantasy and period film, respectively
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Roman Polanski is a filmmaker who could envelop an old lady's stroll along a boulevard with a sense of anxiety and dread, so it's a little odd that he hasn't made more thrillers in his career. "The Ghost Writer," an out-and-out thriller with international
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AFP - "Valentine's Day," a tale of break-ups and make-ups in Los Angeles opened with record-setting Valentine's Day weekend box office takings in North America, pulling in 52.4 million dollars, estimated figures showed Sunday.
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The star-studded comedy "Valentine's Day" shot to the top of North American box office charts during the long U.S. President's day weekend, which is poised to land in the record books for ticket sales.
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Banksy, the secretive British artist whose work has appeared on city streets around the world, said on Sunday he hoped his documentary film "Exit Through The Gift Shop" will raise the standing of urban art.
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AFP - Hollywood actor Ben Stiller abandons his familiar funny man persona to play a lost soul in Los Angeles in the new drama "Greenberg" which joined the competition Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Celine Dion's new movie, "Celine: Through the Eyes of the World," does more than highlight her performances during her last world tour; it also allows fans rare glimpses of her offstage life.
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Friday was a banner day for the director: His new film premiered in Berlin and Swiss authorities pledged not to extradite him to the U.S. as long as his appeal on a sex case was still being considered in Los Angeles.
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Abdul tried to avoid commenting on the rumors that she’s going to join “The X Factor” next fall, but she did drop some hints about her next project.
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Thye “30 Rock” star and Vogue’s new cover model says she doesn’t obsess about her figure, explaining that she lets the fit of her clothes decide if she’s gained weight.
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Producers of the revamped “We Are the World” say the full seven-minute version of the music video will air simultaneously on 53 domestic and international channels Saturday.
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The Friday finale runway show of “Project Runway” had so many designers that even its surprise guest judge had trouble keeping track.
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The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 32.6 million people watched Friday's opening ceremony, approaching the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Games in viewer interest.
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NBC and other networks were criticized Saturday for broadcasting the disturbing video of a Georgian luger who died after flying off the track and slamming into a steel beam during an Olympic training run.
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AFP - Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan tried to calm a row in India linked to the premiere Friday of his new movie about the treatment of Muslims after the September 11 attacks amid threats of violent protests.
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The last film made by U.S. actress Brittany Murphy, who died in December after suffering cardiac arrest, is heading to the big screens later this year after being picked up by Anchor Bay Entertainment.
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Hindu nationalists tore up posters and stoned movie theaters to block Friday's premiere of a movie starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan because he recently spoke in support of Pakistani cricketers, police said.
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More than 2,000 cult film fans braved snow for an outdoor screening of "Metropolis," Fritz Lang's chilling, monumental vision of mechanized society, in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Friday.
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In a Feb. 9 story about the actor Pierce Brosnan, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Sean Bell stars in the film "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief." The film stars Logan Lerman and co-stars Sean Bean.
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Leonardo DiCaprio may not remind movie fans of a young Robert De Niro, but he has taken on one of the intense New York actor's rewarding legacies.
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AFP - Once renowned as the bustling "Czech Hollywood", Prague's vast Barrandov film studios are now empty but Central Europe's Tinseltown is hoping state aid will start cameras rolling.
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Roman Polanski's new film has premiered in Berlin and Swiss authorities have pledged not to extradite him to the U.S. as long as his appeal on a sex case was still being considered in Los Angeles.
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"Every family is unhappy in its own way," wrote Leo Tolstoy in "Anna Karenina," and ample proof is provided by the Moshers in "October Country." Except that this clan isn't just unhappy in their own way, they're unhappy in a million different ways.
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The thing about some Bollywood superstars is that they are actually fine actors as well as charismatic performers.
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Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American theatrical rights to "Countdown to Zero," Lucy Walker's documentary about the escalating nuclear arms race that debuted at Sundance. Magnolia will release the film in theaters this year.
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Martin Scorsese is keen to revive a cinematic partnership with Robert De Niro that goes back to "Mean Streets" nearly 40 years ago and says the project will be related to the mobster world.
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Bobby Hoy, a stuntman and actor known for his way with horses in Westerns like "Bonanza" and "The High Chaparral," has died. He was 82.
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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director's latest film, "Shutter Island," at the Berlin film festival Saturday.
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A Chinese remake of the American thriller "Blood Simple" probably could not have been made two decades ago because of restrictions on filmmakers at the time, director Zhang Yimou said on Sunday.
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Ben Stiller ditches the slapstick comedy and gets more serious in "Greenberg," a low budget drama about a man in mid-life crisis struggling to deal with painful truths about himself and his failures.
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The star-studded romance "Valentine's Day" has wooed audiences with a $52.4 million opening weekend.
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