Cannes in a Tizzy Over Nicole Kidman’s Southern-Fried Tramp, Pete Doherty’s...
Never quite the bastion of intellectual severity that the Berlin and Rotterdam festivals are, Cannes invariably serves up a little squalor and turpitude for the press to rake over and relish.Lee...
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Shia LaBeouf and Nicole Kidman Build the Body Heat for Lars Von Trier’s...
Needing a lusty American lad to boost the international sales potential of his upcoming “Nymphomania,” the Danish agent provocateur Lars Von Trier has lighted upon Shia LaBeouf to play, presumably, an...
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Where Joaquin Phoenix Sowed the Seeds for His Great Performance in “The Master”
Seventeen years ago this month, I interviewed Joaquin Phoenix, then a scrawny 21, whose unwillingness to talk indicated an understandable mistrust of the media in the wake of his elder brother River’s...
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Will Nicole Kidman Channel Her Feelings About Stardom as Grace Kelly?
Olivier Dahan has begun shooting “Grace in Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace (the former Grace Kelly) and Tim Roth as her husband, Prince Rainier III. Following her appearance at the...
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Nicole Kidman Struts Her Stuff in “The Paperboy,” a Steamy Florida Noir...
In Lee Daniels’s “The Paperboy,” set in Florida in 1969, Nicole Kidman gives a sympathetic perfomance as a principled but delusional voluptuary, Charlotte Bless, whose fatalistic attraction to Death...
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SAG Nominations Take a Walk on the Safe Side
“Lincoln,” “Les Misérables,” and “Silver Linings Playbook” were each nominated for four awards by the Screen Actors Guild in West Hollywood this morning. All three received nods for their ensemble...
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“Lincoln” Leads Golden Globes Race With Seven Nominations
Despite the early show of strength by “Zero Dark Thirty” at the start of the awards season, “Lincoln” is emerging as the dominant movie in the race toward the Oscars. Steven Spielberg’s movie about...
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A Dozen Movies in Search of Buzz at the Sundance Film Festival
The 29th Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, will be screening 119 features during its 11-day run through January 26. Although the chances of the indie showcase turning up another Brand New...
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Movies About Hollywood Glamour Queens Paint a Troubling Picture
Based on the principle that all publicity is good publicity, the makers of “Grace of Monaco” might feel that Grace Kelly’s children have denounced the movie too early in its journey to the screen to be...
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Another Girl, Another Planet: Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin”
Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin” is that rare thing, a dread-laden sci-fi noir that manages to combine the brooding atmosphere of 19th century Romanticism with the rigorous social realism of Ken...
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