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Chicago catches a 'Big Fish'
NEW YORK — A man in a Manhattan rehearsal room asks a young boy a question: "No soccer game this week?" A look crosses the kid's face. You can read love, loneliness, contempt. "It's not soccer season anymore, Dad." Chastened, the man talks of...
Tags: Movies, Literature, Music, Big Fish (movie), Henrik Ibsen
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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: Tony Kushner, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Literature, Charles Bronson, Movies
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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: Noise (movie), College Baseball, Social Media, Ben Affleck, Argo (movie)
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The boldness and brilliance of one-star reviews on Amazon.com
A couple of weeks ago at a Tribune-hosted cocktail party in the Loop, I found myself in a conversation with novelist Richard Ford. I was wearing the baseball hat I'm wearing in the photo that runs with this column, and from the corner of my eye I...
Tags: Netflix Inc., The New York Times, New York Observer, Music, The Clash (music group)
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'Silver Linings Playbook': Humanity in high-maintenance characters ★★★ 1/2
Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...
Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, Movies, Bradley Cooper, The Master (movie), The Fighter (movie)
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Stars pick the directors they want to watch
Let's say there's a row of beautiful movie theaters, and the marquee of each one reads, "New film by (name of filmmaker here)." And let's say there's no other information about the film itself. Which one would you choose? We offered this dilemma to some...
Tags: The Impossible (movie), Movies, Argo (movie), Ben Affleck, Admission (movie)
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'Silver Linings Playbook' director David O. Russell returns to themes of neighborhood, family
Opening Nov. 21, "Silver Linings Playbook" is the latest teeming organism from writer and director David O. Russell, whose films include "Flirting With Disaster," "Three Kings" and, two years ago, "The Fighter," for which Christian Bale and Melissa Leo...
Tags: Movies, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Film Festivals, Christian Bale
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: The Shining (movie), Reality (movie), David O. Russell, Film Festivals, Holy Motors (movie)
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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: Tony Kushner, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Christoph Waltz, Les Miserables (movie), Lobbying
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Star-gazing at the Oscars: Movie fans enjoy parade
HOLLYWOOD — The red carpet is in some ways a microcosm of the Oscar food chain. The first nominees arrive two and a half hours before the show is to begin. These are the people who worked on live-action shorts and documentary features and foreign-...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Skyfall (movie), Kristen Stewart, Les Miserables (movie), Music
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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Skyfall (movie), Les Miserables (movie), Life of Pi (movie)
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'Silver Linings Playbook' snags Spirit awards
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The persistent irony of the Film Independent Spirit Awards is that as much as they're positioned as the DIY antidote to the Academy Awards, the indie film with the most Oscars recognition almost invariably reaps the greatest...
Tags: Bruce Willis, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Movies, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Haneke
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