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Today, innumerable thousands of shrieking tweens (and older counterparts who really should know better) will descend on the nation's multiplexes, baying for "New Moon" blood.
The phenomenon isn't limited to theaters: Forks, Washington -- where Stephanie Meyer set her novel without ever ...
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Here in America, we have solid theme park
rides based on movies that, for the most part,
make sense, like Universal Studios' "E.T. Adventure," or the "Wayne's World" roller coaster "Hurler" ( since sold and de-"Wayne"'d by Paramount, but still). ...
Fellini: The Ride.
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Jeanne-Claude -- Christo's collaborator and partner -- died today in Manhattan at the age of 74. It was fitting, in a way, not only because the artist pair have been residents of the city since 1964, but because their last big completed project was "The Gates," which turned Central Park's ...
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Bemoaning the failures of the Oscars in the
Best Documentary department has become an annual ritual, like
spazzing about filing your income taxes or dusting off stale jokes about March Madness obsessions. So the news that this year's doc shortlist of ...
Dissecting the Oscar doc shortlist.
"The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" open Friday, Werner Herzog's supposed latest exercise in unhinged lunacy. But as a colleague observed after a screening, "If you didn't know going in Herzog had made it, would you be able to tell?" I'd say probably not: there's none of his ...
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Werner Herzog
Sacha Baron Cohen
Nothing says 1969 like "Easy Rider," the bad-trip Altamont to the ebullient celebration of the next year's "Woodstock." While the hippies were partying down, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson were discovering there was no place for them in America, either old or new. On the occasion ...
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Dennis Hopper
There's never been a better time to indulge in a little Italian cinema, at least if you live on the coasts. For New Yorkers, that's meant classics from the likes of Visconti, Rossellini and Pietro Germi at the Italian Neo-Realism series at the Lincoln Center, and a new 35mm print of Vittorio De ...
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Friday sees the release of an abridged version of John Woo's new film, "Red Cliff," a two-part, five-hour epic condensed for American audiences into what's still an admittedly pretty entertaining regular-length feature.
As Glenn Kenny notes at The Auteurs while comparing the two versions, ...
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John Woo
Paycheck
Mission: Impossible II
Red Cliff
Some directors are automatic punchlines, their names synonyms for lousy. There's Adam Sandler cohort Steve Brill ("Without A Paddle," "Drillbit Taylor"), Eddie Murphy's favorite Brian Robbins ("Norbit," "Meet Dave") and of course Shawn Levy ("A Night At The Museum," "The Pink Panther," "Cheaper ...
Harry Potter
Chris Columbus
Harry Potter
Shawn Levy
Daniel Radcliffe
Macaulay Culkin
Jena Malone
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"Dazed and Confused" is effectively beloved by everyone
who's seen it -- including me -- so I
got uber-excited about the prospect of Richard Linklater making a "spiritual sequel." And now it's dead on the ground . It was apparently called "That's ...
Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused" sequel bites ...
Being unreasonably easy to scare, I'm a soft touch when it comes to horror movies and basically refuse to have anything to do with them at this point, but "The Exorcist" is one movie that's never bugged me. But it has scared the hell (heh) out of every Catholic I know; it's the rare horror ...
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The Exorcist
William Friedkin
The Unborn
C Me Dance
As you're doubtless aware, the weekend saw "Precious" making $6.1 million from a measly 174 screens, doing well on its probable journey towards Best Picture; "Fantastic Mr. Fox" did well too, pulling roughly the same per-theater average as "The Darjeeling Limited" in its first weekend, which ...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
I work at home, so I love Twitter: it's a great way to break up the monotony of one room, one laptop and eight hours. If you're a user, you know that on the right-hand side of the page there's a list of "Trending Topics" -- frequently used phrases, frequently marked with a hash-tag -- that ...
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Juno
Jason Reitman
Little Miss Sunshine
Paranormal Activity
Greenpeace is a good organization that's kind of itchily annoying, the same way a college activist getting you to sign a worthy petition is -- a point driven home quite literally when Bruce Willis was whacking activists with golf balls from his oil rig in "Armageddon." That image might be a ...
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An American Carol
Armageddon
Jon Turteltaub
David Zucker
Bill O'Reilly
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Alan Polsky wanted to tell me a story
about how Werner Herzog held a gun to his
head and shattered his brother Gabe's eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," but that was just ...
The brothers who brought you "Bad Lieutenant."
Welcome to the end of the decade (unless you're one of those "decades start in the year one, not zero" cranks). More specifically, welcome to the end of the decade as seen by every publication wanting to list the aughts' best films. The rundown from the UK's The Times is a peculiarly ...
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The Bourne Ultimatum
Two (or three, if you squint) dance movies scored big over the weekend: Michael Jackson's last stand "This Is It" continued to score overseas with $29 million; meanwhile, in New York, Frederick Wiseman's documentary "La Danse" took in $21,000 in one weekend , better than any per-screen average ...
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Red Band
Fox Searchlight has become to the '00s what Miramax was to the '90s: a company that gets known for putting out "niche" movies that aren't honestly the toughest of sells. With the trifecta of "Napoleon Dynamite," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Juno," they basically cracked open the window for the ...
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Juno
Whip It
"Mad Man," the series with which every critic in the country seems to be smitten except me, lured no less than Barbet Schroeder in to direct last night's episode "The Grown-Ups," Schroeder's first venture into TV and the next-to-last installment of the season. (And one that -- whoops -- some ...
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Mad Men
Few movies are as incomplete yet overwhelmingly influential as Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis." Any movie you've seen with enormous, gigantic architecture set in an ominous future or a mythical past -- "Brazil," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Fifth Element," even this year's "The International" -- ...
