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Annabeth Gish plays it smart with 'Mystic' role
This grave, attractive young woman sitting across from me, this person who seems like someone to whom I could turn for advice, is 17 years old.
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Winfrey confronts the strength and the spirits of 'Beloved'
After she finished reading Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, Oprah Winfrey said, "I called Toni and said to her, `You know, I loved this book - but do people tell you they have to keep going over it?' And she said,…
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Telluride Interview: Herzog finds truth beyond fact
There is no such thing as a casual conversation with Werner Herzog. When I run into him at a film festival my heart quickens, because I know I am going to be told amazing things, all delivered with the intense…
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Ian Michael Smith: A big thinker
When Ian Michael Smith got his first chance to try out for a movie, his parents said "no way." And so did he.
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Akira Kurosawa focused on individual, ethical dilemmas
Akira Kurosawa, one of the greatest of all film directors, died Sunday in Tokyo. He was 88. His later years were spent in near-blindness, and yet he continued to work, sketching scenes with the paper only inches from his eyes,…
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Neil LaBute looks at how people are consumed
Neil LaBute's new film doesn't take place in Los Angeles or New York or . . . anywhere in particular. There is not a single outdoor establishing shot anywhere in it. "Yeah," LaBute says. "There's no shot of the apartment…
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Stanley Kubrick 1928-1998
Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest of film directors, and perhaps the most independent and self-contained, is dead at 71. The creator of "2001: A Space Odyssey" died early Sunday morning at his country home north of London.
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Tom Hanks recalls 'Private Ryan' shoot
Tom Hanks has been described as a Hollywood Everyman, an actor who elevates the ordinary to an art form. Maybe that's why Steven Spielberg chose him for the lead in "Saving Private Ryan." The movie's message is that World War…
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Private Spielberg
It is an interesting moral equation, Steven Spielberg was saying. When three brothers in the same family are all killed during World War II, the Army chief of staff promises their mother that the fourth brother will be brought home…
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Roy Rogers, the happy hero
I can't remember the name of a single Roy Rogers movie. That's because I saw some of them before I was able to read, and all of them before I started paying attention to titles. They weren't movies. They were…