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Opening This Weekend: Spike Jonze Gets Wild, Gerard Butler Breaks the Law and Dan Humphrey Hits the Big Screen
If you’re apartment building is like ours—the December temperatures in October are a problem when the heat isn’t on yet—then you’re going to need someplace warm to hide this weekend. How about the movie theater? In addition to the further expansion ...
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Woo-Hoo! Hong Kong Auteur Sinks <i>Titanic</i> with <i>Red Cliffs</i>
Hong Kong action auteur John Woo has always made huge movies, but with his latest, the war epic Red Cliff , he managed to sink the Titanic . In 2008 it surpassed the James Cameron mega-hit, becoming the highest-grossing movie ever in China. Now, ...
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!Hola!Will Almodovar Finally Make Movie in English?
The New York Film Festival began very softly but ended with the sizzle of director Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces on Sunday, Oct. 13.
The film follows the tangled love story of a writer and his muse, played by Penélope Cruz , in what Mr. ...
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Subject: Sarsgaard! Sony Is Making Darn Sure You Get An Education
On the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 5, Sony hosted back-to-back screenings of the 2009 film-festival darling An Education at its 56th Street Tower, where anyone who looks out the wraparound windows feels like a power-hungry Rapunzel.
The earlier ...
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Letitia James
Wild Thing, I Wish I Loved You
Where the Wild Things Are
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze
Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Chris ...
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A Melting Pot of Mush
New York, I Love You
Running time 110 minutes
Written by Emmanuel Benbihy (concept) and Tristan Carné (premise), and various others
Directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira ...
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Box Office Breakdown: Couples Retreat Cleans Up, Paranormal Activity Scares Everybody
Is it still a staycation if you go out? Audiences flocked to see the island paradise getaway Couples Retreat , presumably because no one can afford their own trip; the comedy was the top choice for moviegoers over Columbus Day weekend, grossing an ...
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The Week in DVR: 30 Rock Returns! Plus, Early Coen Brothers, Vampires, Jennifer Aniston, and Very Cute Dogs
Monday: From Dusk Till Dawn
Now that vampires have taken over the pop culture universe, it might be time to revisit the glorious insanity that is From Dusk Till Dawn . Written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by his longtime friend Robert ...
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Opening This Weekend: Vince Vaughn Goes Tropical, Carey Mulligan Gets Famous
Since you won’t get mail on Monday, Columbus Day actually does count as a real holiday! But not according to Hollywood, we guess: Instead of flooding the market with ample choices for moviegoers this weekend, only one film gets a nationwide release. ...
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Bizarre Late Night Love Triangle
"You can’t be victimized by criminals, explained David Letterman on the Late Show Monday night. You have to push back.
Outside the fortified walls of the Ed Sullivan Theater, a full moon hung in the sky. Mr. Letterman must have been tired. For ...
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The Gallery Is Fake, But the Paintings Are Real
Oct. 23 will see the release of (Untitled) , a satire of the New York art world in the key of The Emperor’s New Clothes that asks what is art, what is hackery and why does it seem like no one in Chelsea wants to admit the distinction.
The film ...
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Mixed-Up Love
Peter and Vandy
Running time 95 minutes
Written and directed by Jay DiPietro
Starring Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler
Peter and Vandy is another low-budget two-hander that explores the ups and downs of a modern relationship using jump cuts, ...
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Riding in Cars With Boys
Trucker
Running time 90 minutes
Written and Directed by James Mottern
Starring Michelle Monaghan, Benjamin Bratt, Jimmy Bennett, Joey Lauren Adams
In an honestly observed and understated little film called Trucker , an excellent cast ...
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An English Rose in Bloom
An Education
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Nick Hornby
Directed by Lone Scherfig
Starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson
Riding in on waves of raves from ...
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Box Office Breakdown: Welcome to Zombieland
Who knew killing zombies was such a lucrative business? Zombieland squished the competition at the box office this weekend, placing first with an estimated $25 million. That gives the horror-zombie-comedy hybrid the second highest opening for a ...
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The Week in DVR: Dave Letterman's Show Must Go On! Plus, Woody Allen, Paul Rudd, Tim Daly, and Patrick Swayze (RIP)
Monday: The Late Show With David Letterman
All eyes will be on the big guy tonight, the first show since Dave Letterman’s announcement last Thursday sent the world into a weird whipped up frenzy (Friday night’s show, with Larry David, was ...
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Opening This Weekend: Zombies! Roller Derbies! Ricky Gervais! Plus, The Coen Brothers Get Serious
How do we know fall is officially here? Because not only are the temperatures dropping—we needed to pull out shirts with long sleeves this week, people!—but the movies are finally getting good . Four potential gems hit theaters today, and as usual, ...
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Whip It Good: Welcome Back Alia Shawkat!
With the Arrested Development movie firmly ensconced as the Sasquatch of film projects, forever-taunting fans with glimpses and false positives—get excited: apparently the script is being worked on right this second!—thank goodness for ...
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What to See at the New York Film Festival
Since 1963, the New York Film Festival has remained a quaintly stubborn institution tucked away in (now fully renovated!) Alice Tully Hall. Its mission from the very beginning, in the oft-sighed-over days when Richard Roud ran the show, was simple: ...
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Oy Vay! Coens Lose Moral Center in A Serious Man
A Serious Man
Running time 105 minutes
Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg
Growing up going to Hebrew school every day and synagogue every Saturday may not be a prerequisite to overcome the bleak confusion ...
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The New York Film Festival Opens Quietly at Alice Tully with Alain Resnais' Wild Grass
"It's like prom night didn't happen this year," said documentarian Aviva Kempner ( Yoo-Hoo , Mrs. Goldberg ) on Friday, September 25, standing in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall, where the New York Film Festival was celebrating its opening night. ...
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The Week in DVR: Peter Berg's Trauma Premieres and Sam Rockwell's Genius (and Other Things) are on Display in Choke
Monday: Trauma
Not to be confused with Mercy , here comes Trauma . This new NBC series—which has the snazziest ad campaign of the fall (non- Man Men edition)—eschews whiny nurses for tough-as-nails EMT workers and hopes to give action ...
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Box Office Breakdown: Cloudy Continues to Shine, Bruce Willis Does Not
The sun is still shining on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ! For a second straight week the animated film dominated what was a sluggish session at the multiplex, grossing an estimated $24.6 million and setting itself up as one of the sleeper ...
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Opening This Weekend: Thank Goodness September is Over!
The final weekend of September is upon and dare we say: not a moment too soon. Once October hits, real movies will start opening, but in the meantime we’re left with the rest of these September dregs. As we do every Friday, here’s a handy guide to ...
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Clive's Big Night: Celebrates The Boys are Back at Sticky Supper Club
It's hard to imagine Clive Owen , Emeril Lagasse , and The RZA together in anything but a pop-culture fever dream. But there they were on an unseasonably sticky Wednesday night at the Bon Appetit Supper Club, celebrating the New York ...
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The John Krasinski Show
Despite having the most appropriate title of the fall—indeed the interviews are brief, the men hideous— Brief Interviews with Hideous Men will not be remembered all that fondly. Even at 80 minutes, the film feels too long by twenty, and never ...
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But Will it Play in Peoria? Esky Nervously Fetes Moore's Anti-Capitalism Doc at Ultimate Bachelor Pad
“They promised me I would mellow as I got older, and it didn’t happen,” a graying Michael Moore bellowed before the New York premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story , at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, Sept. 21. The screening, a pre–New ...
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Clive Finally Picks a Good Flick
The Boys Are Back
Running time 104 minutes
Written by Allan Cubitt
Directed by Scott Hicks
Starring Clive Owen, Laura Fraser, Nicholas McAnulty, George MacKay
Clive Owen has either a bad agent or a bad eye. Considering his talent and ...
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I Just Don't Care About The Other Man
The Other Man
Running time 90 minutes
Written and directed by Richard Eyre
Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas, Romola Garai
Despite the gimlet eye of Richard Eyre, former director of England’s Royal National Theatre, and ...
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Patricia, I Love You, but This Film's a Downer
Blind Date
Running time 80 minutes
Written by David Schechter and Stanley Tucci
Directed by Stanley Tucci
Starring Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci
One of the more fascinating and discerning actresses in the current cinema, New Orleans’ ...
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Fall Arts Preview 2009
The best of autumn's art, classical music, opera, jazz, pop, dance, theater, movies, television and...
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Box Office Breakdown: Meatballs Anything But Cloudy, Jennifer's Body Goes to the Morgue
It was all sunshine and rainbows for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at the box office over the weekend. The 3-D animated jaunt topped the charts with an estimated $30.1 million, a number that nearly tripled second place finisher—and fellow ...
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The Week in DVR: More Neil Patrick Harris! Plus, Hitchock, Gangs of New York, and Grey's Anatomy Returns
Monday: How I Met Your Mother
Is Monday night the new Thursday night? Tonight brings the season premiere of House , a new Gossip Girl , a two-hour Heroes (yep, that show is still on the air) and the launching of the CBS Monday night ...
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Some Thoughts On Last Night's Emmy Awards
It’s been months since we’ve had a glitzy Hollywood-loves-itself-so-much awards show, and yet…it’s sort of hard to get worked up about the Emmys, isn’t it? We appreciated the hard work host Neil Patrick Harris was putting in up there – apparently ...
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Opening This Weekend: Movies You May Actually Want to See!
Don’t be confused by what you see on Fandango: there are actually a bunch of movies possibly worth seeing this weekend. September starts to come out of the doldrums today with four films hitting theaters, and, as usual, there is something for ...
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Three Fearless Predictions for Emmy Night!
It seems fitting that on Emmy night—a night that ostensibly is supposed to celebrate the greatness of television—there is plenty of great television available to divert your attention away from the glitz and glam of the award ceremony itself. ...
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Plenty of Soup For You: Joel McHale Makes Community a Winner
It might only be the middle of September, but we still feel confident in calling Joel McHale the breakout star of the fall television season. The snarky host of The Soup is so perfectly on-point in Community —premiering tonight at 9:30 on NBC, ...
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The Cubicle Queue
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.
Vintage Mischa on Hulu - Mischa Barton is all grown up now (you know, ...
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Coco Bonjour! Movie About Chanel's Early Years Premieres, 'Nothing to Do About Fashion'
The director of Coco Avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel ) Anne Fontaine and its star Audrey Tautou wanted to set one thing straight before the film's premiere Tuesday night at the Paris Theatre: This movie is not haute couture.
"I ...
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The Kindest Keats? Campion Talks About Demure New Biopic, Starring Dreamy Whishaw
Ben Whishaw , the young British actor with a Romantic poet’s mop of tousled black hair, stood alone by the bar at the Plaza’s Oak Room during lunchtime at Tuesday, Sept. 15, wearing black Vans, black jeans and an untucked white dress shirt. ...
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Guiding Light, Snuffed: Scene From A Dying Daytime Drama
When CBS announced the cancellation of Guiding Light , the longest-running daytime drama, on April Fools’ Day, the cast and crew thought it was a bad joke. But on the last day of filming in August, after 57 years in the channel’s Manhattan studios ...
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Welcome Home, Mischa
Mischa Barton appeared from behind the blue door, labeled “M. Barton,” wearing a leather jacket covered in studs, a gray sweatshirt with the hood pulled over her freshly styled hair, leather boots (also covered in studs) and dark makeup around her ...
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HBO, The Writers' Network
Not long ago, in the spring of 2009, Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, the husband-and-wife writing team, were running late on a crucial project. In a few short weeks, their half-hour series, Hung , would be premiering on HBO. At the time, they ...
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Blame Canada!
At the 34th Toronto International Film Festival, everyone’s seeing orange. The lower-case “tiff,” the color of a pumpkin, blares from posters and billboards throughout the city as a symbol of festival director Piers Handling’s determination to ...
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Gossip Girl Returns on Horseback!
For most teen shows, the transition between high school and college is the beginning of the end—the death rattle before inevitable cancelation. For Gossip Girl , however, it appears nothing will change at all. Think about it: has a show about high ...
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Ed Cox
Box Office Breakdown: It's Tyler Perry's World
Faced with the start of the NFL season, the VMA’s (like everyone else, we’re on Team Taylor Swift), and, perhaps, a bit of moviegoer ennui, it was another slow weekend at the multiplex. Tyler Perry’s latest film, I Can Do Bad All By Myself , topped ...
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The Week in DVR: Fall's Back! It's the start of the season for Gossip Girl, The Biggest Loser and The Office
MONDAY: Gossip Girl
OMFG! It really must be Fall, because our DVR runneth over with all the shows coming back this week (thank you, universe). Tonight, it’s the recession-proof Gossip Girl with season three. Most of the gang are in college ...
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Letitia James
Opening This Weekend: Tyler Perry And a Bunch of Other Movies You Won't See!
Ah, the second weekend in September: A time for crappy horror movies and, apparently, Tyler Perry (though, truth be told, those two things might not be mutually exclusive.) Four movies hit theaters today and if you don’t like genre stuff, you’re out ...
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On Second Thought, Glee is Pretty Awesome
We found ourselves kinda stunned by what happened on television last night. No, not that Republican congressman Joe Wilson who heckled the President of the United States during his address to the joint session on congress—Seriously? “You lie?” This ...
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The Other Star of Bright Star
This Friday, audiences at the Toronto Film Festival will get to see Bright Star , the latest from writer-director Jane Campion, a breathtakingly beautiful film about the doomed love affair between 19th-century Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny ...
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