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Jon Macht: From Hagerstown to Hollywood
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comMoxie is defined by Webster's New World dictionary as "courage, pluck, perseverance; guts." And if there's one thing Hagerstown native Jon Macht, 52, has, it's moxie. Moxie was what lead Macht as a teenager to have the nerve to send a note to The...Tags: Jamie Kennedy, Entertainment Events, David West, American Idol (tv program), National Basketball Association
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A list of favorite old and new flicks for creepy Halloween fun
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comThere's nothing like a good scare to get your heart pumping. And what better time to celebrate things that go bump in the night better than Halloween? In celebration of Halloween, I have put together a list of some of my favorites for the season. Some...Tags: Madeline Kahn, Anthony Perkins, Alfred Hitchcock, Night of the Living Dead (movie, 1968), Mel Brooks
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Local filmmakers' movie tells a tale of a talk with the devil
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comFriends who scare together, stay together. Or so it seems for director and editor Matt Matzen, along with his buddies and screenwriters Steve Shives and Rob Talbert, whose horror comedy “The Darkness and Tom Markos” will premiere at 8 p.m....Tags: Paddy Chayefsky, Rod Serling, Comedy (genre), Arts and Culture, Movies
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: James Mason, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Paths of Glory (movie), The Shining (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection
It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Kenneth Branagh, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Robert Wise, Tobe Hooper
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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: Holy Motors (movie), Steppenwolf Theatre, Film Festivals, Toronto International Film Festival, Arts and Culture
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Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat
Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...
Tags: Vertigo (movie), North by Northwest (movie), Religion and Belief, Google Inc., Psycho (movie)
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" Showing at Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford
2001: A Space Odyssey may be the most epic movie of all time, a dated but romantic vision of the future directed by the great Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are discovered, and astronauts are sent on a secret mission to...
Tags: Stamford, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Arts and Culture
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Mother takes synagogue to view son's film
Hollywood resident Brenda Ascher is a proud Jewish mother. Her son Rodney Ascher is the director of the documentary, "Room 237," where people provide numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining." Ascher and...Tags: Judaism, Religion and Belief, The Shining (movie), Room 237 (movie), Israel
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Bells are ringing, effectively, in films of today and of yore
It's not much of a movie, but in the Duplass brothers' "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" a misdialed phone number — Mis-tapped? Mis-punched? Who dials anymore, anyway? — gets the bonged-out dreamer played by Jason Segel thinking he was contacted for a...Tags: Peter Sellers, Dial M for Murder (movie), His Girl Friday (movie), Movies, Entertainment
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Words, images, music, courtesy of Bert Stern
The soul-filling and gorgeous concert film "Jazz on a Summer's Day," shot during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, started out as something else — a fiction feature, with jazz and Newport, R.I., as the backdrops, according to photographer and...Tags: Mahalia Jackson, Music, Lindsay Lohan, Photography, Concerts
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Clockwork Orange (movie), The Shining (movie), Room 237 (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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