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BY DAVID INMAN • GANNETT NEWS SERVICE • November 8, 2009 QUESTION: I recently was watching a movie on VH-1 that was about the career of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5. Is the character who played Michael the same person who...
A Brooklyn Academy of Music presentation of a play in one act by Heiner Muller, translated by Jean Jourdheuil and Beatrice Perregaux, based on the novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Near the end of...
This decade has given rise to a fragmented, pick’n’mix cinematic culture - but what are the top 100 movie masterpieces of the last ten years? The succès d’estime of Steve McQueen’s Hunger and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s...
100 The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006) Meryl Streep begins her own populist career reinvention (soon to be followed by Mamma Mia!) by playing a tyrannical and thinly disguised version of Vogue editor Anna Wintour in...
After short chat, actress agrees to remove name from petition By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent Emma Thompson is an Oscar-winning actress whose charisma and outspoken personality have earned her admiration and a reputation as...
For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes,...
With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Just about any movie every made can be...
David Thomson: I doubt that in the history of the movies we've ever before had women in their 50s standing above all others. But Isabelle Huppert is one 'Who the hell is Isabelle Huppert?" The question rang through the offices...
‘I’m a control freak,’ says Michael Haneke, the current holder of the Palme d’Or. The Cannes prize-winning director is talking in a London hotel room, wearing a black shirt and trousers, German words spouting through his Santa...
HONG KONG, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The 38th French film festival "French Cinepanorama" will be held from Nov. 27 to Dec. 13, the Alliance Francaise of Hong Kong said Tuesday. French Cinepanorama, one of the longest-running film...
