Truth (movie 2015) review: Cate Blanchett delivers a great star turn in this engrossing but less than objective docudrama. Robert Redford costars.
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Young Robert Redford goes from political candidate and youthful journalist fighting corruption to CIA agent fearing for his life and ambitious skiier.
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Robert Redford: The Great Gatsby 1974 was 1 of biggest artistic misfires of the decade and Redford was part of the problem.
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Robert Redford Movies: Two of the Biggest Blockbusters Ever and War Hero or Serial Killer? The future Hollywood icon in an early subversive war movie.
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The Other Woman movie with Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, and Leslie Mann. The Other Woman movie box office: Cameron Diaz & Leslie Mann comedy to top North American box office…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (movie 2014) review: Another first-rate Marvel and Disney collaboration. Chris Evans and veteran Robert Redford star.
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Amy Adams’ Oscar nominations: Best Actress win for American Hustle? Adams is seen here with Christian Bale. Oscar predictions Below are our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. The 86th Academy Award…
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NYFCC Winners: Jennifer Lawrence Hot during awards season + controversial spicy Lesbian-sex filled Love Story and Hollywood Veteran has 1st Win.
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Dame Judi Dench. Dame Judi Dench & Scarlett Johansson among British Independent Film Award nominees Since the likes of Judi Dench, Scarlett Johansson, James McAvoy, and Tom Hardy are in…
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All the President’s Men revisited: Robert Redford with Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward. All the President’s Men revisited: Robert Redford & Ben Bradlee + Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward…
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Daniel Radcliffe hot after “Oscar snub.” Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter vs. the Academy Awards Among recent revelations and assertions ranging from the highly personal to the highly political, Daniel Radcliffe…
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Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents died in his sleep on May 5 in New York City. He was 93. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story…
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The Conspirator box office: Director Robert Redford’s tepidly received historical drama is a commercial flop in the U.S. and elsewhere. James McAvoy and Robin Wright star.
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The Conspirator movie with James McAvoy: As it turned out, Robert Redford’s historical drama is the director’s latest commercial underperformer. Robert Redford’s The Conspirator: Mixed reviews Starring Robin Wright as…
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Lake Tahoe directed by Fernando Eimbcke. Fernando Eimbcke’s minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of…
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Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…
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Paul Scofield in A Delicate Balance with Katharine Hepburn. Benedict Nightingale’s “Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great” in The [London] Times: “Why didn’t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in…
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Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
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“Yellow face” in Hollywood movies: Paul Muni is a Jewish-Austrian-Hungarian Chinese in The Good Earth. Today it’d have been simpler. Muni would have been merely a Jewish-Ukrainian Chinese. Hollywood Chinese,…
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
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Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails…
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Paris Riots coming to a neighborhood near you? + rancher Robert Redford in the Amazon + youthful Liv Ullmann tackles social prejudices.
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What are the Academy Awards? One famous Oscar winner doesn’t seem to hold them in high regard, while a film publication lists the Ten Very Worst Best Pictures ever.
Ben Bradlee Movies: All the President’s Men with Oscar winner Jason Robards as Washington Post executive director, Ghosts of Grey Gardens.
Judgment at Nuremberg and Joan Fontaine: Stanley Kramer’s Best Message Movie and only Alfred Hitchcock Acting Oscar Winner plus Winter Olympics.
Marvin Hamlisch and Barbra Streisand. Best known for the Oscar-winning theme song from the 1973 Barbra Streisand-Robert Redford tearjerker The Way We Were, composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch died Monday,…
Turner Classic Movies: Dysfunctional-Family Oriented Christmas Films likely to inspire gathered families + Katharine Hepburn 2x and Elizabeth Taylor 3x.
Sydney Pollack and Patrick Dempsey in the box office disappointment Made of Honor. Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s,…
Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep in the Robert Redford-directed Lions for Lambs. The 2007 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival – in press releases referred to as “AFI FEST 2007 presented…
Sex and violence in Brazil’s military dictatorship: ‘Damned Brazilian Movies!’ Every Thursday, the Casa França-Brasil in downtown Rio de Janeiro has been presenting the movie series “Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!” (Damned…