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Raul Ruiz, 1941-2011: Death of a Little-Known Movie Master

By on Monday, August 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Portuguese director Raul Ruiz RAFA RIVAS / AFP / Getty Images “My films are poor,” Raul Ruiz said in a recent interview. “They’re like my family. They are all poor, but they have longevity.” The Chilean-born writer-director had a huge movie family: in a prodigious career that spanned nearly a half-century, he made about 90 [...]

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Pottermore’s Pioneers: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s New Site

By on Monday, August 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Pottermore, the new, officially J.K. Rowling–sanctioned Harry Potter website, is now conducting what’s known as a “closed beta.” That means that it’s not open to the public, but a bunch of lucky fans, about a million of them, have been invited in to explore it early. I’m one of them. My daughter, whom we’ll call [...]

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Box Office: The Help Is the Boss of Conan and Spy Kids 4D

By on Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Emma Stone and Viola Davis in The Help. Everett Maybe the movie business should just take late August off — close up shop for a few weeks and plan a Hollywood holiday. Because the multiplexes are so empty, not even the crickets came. Take this weekend, please. Four films made their debut, and moviegoers, in [...]

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Provocateur Gualtiero Jacopetti Dead at 91: Honoring the Man Behind the Mondo Movies

By on Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Italian documentary director Gualtiero Jacopetti with his fiance, English actress, Belinda Lee. Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty Images “Mondo,” being the Italian word for world, should be a neutral noun. Yet go to any modern dictionary and find a variety of definitions far from the original. “Adjective: enormous; huge; extremely unconventional or bizarre.” “Adverb: [...]

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Why Baseball Is Avoiding Other Sports’ Labor Woes

By on Friday, August 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Action like this catch by Minnesota Twins center fielder Ben Revere is not likely to stop anytime soon Genevieve Ross / AP For NBA and NFL fans, it’s been a rough few months. The NFL had to sweat out a 136-day lockout that almost caused teams to miss preseason games. The resolution, reached in late [...]

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Why Baseball Is Avoiding Other Sports’ Labor Woes

By on Friday, August 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Action like this catch by Minnesota Twins center fielder Ben Revere is not likely to stop anytime soon Genevieve Ross / AP For NBA and NFL fans, it’s been a rough few months. The NFL had to sweat out a 136-day lockout that almost caused teams to miss preseason games. The resolution, reached in late [...]

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Conan the Barbarian: That’s Sado-tainment!

By on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Jason Momoa stars in a scene from Conan the Barbarian. Simon Varsano / Lionsgate Films In the sooty mists of time known as the Hyborian Age — when fierce men did battle with stout swords and, apparently, certified their machismo by sporting heavy eyeliner — there arose a hero named Conan, determined to avenge the [...]

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‘One Day’ Review: A Page Turner Becomes a Head Scratcher

By on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Anne Hathaway, left, and Jim Sturgess, right, star in the romance movie directed by Lone Scherfig, One Day. Giles Keyte / Universal Pictures Lazy bourgeois Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) and feisty, liberal Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) land in bed together in 1988, the night of their graduation from an English university. Emma is strident and [...]

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Amigo: John Sayles’ Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence

By on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Christopher Cooper stars as Colonel Hardacre in a scene from Amigo. Mary Cybulski / Pinoy Pictures I love the idea — I mean the platonic ideal — of John Sayles. For more than 30 years he has been the pinup boy of American independent cinema: the workshirt sleeves rolled up to reveal a logger’s arms, [...]

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Amigo: John Sayles’ Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence

By on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Christopher Cooper stars as Colonel Hardacre in a scene from Amigo. Mary Cybulski / Pinoy Pictures I love the idea — I mean the platonic ideal — of John Sayles. For more than 30 years he has been the pinup boy of American independent cinema: the workshirt sleeves rolled up to reveal a logger’s arms, [...]

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