ROME - In Michelangelo Antonioni’s movies, dialogue was sparse, shots lengthy and action minimal. This abstract style and a ruthless exploration of the malaise of modern man made the Italian director a darling of avant-garde cinema and a celebrated filmmaker across the world.
Antonioni died at 94 in [...]
[Read more...]They’re the comedy equivalent of a scrappy young rock band that just scored a major record deal, a trio of childhood friends primed to bust out.
The full-scale introduction of Berkeley natives Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer comes Friday when their new film, “Hot Rod,” opens nationwide.
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[Read more...]Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, the Berkeley-bred comedy trio that makes the “Hot Rod” engine rev, have many comic inspirations.
Monty Python - “They created their own world and didn’t care about reality at all,” Samberg says. “They weren’t worried about the audience keeping up or if they were going to [...]
[Read more...]In the limp French farce “My Best Friend,” a successful antiques dealer named Francois (Daniel Auteuil) goes out to dinner with his closest friends. In apparently typical behavior, he’s late and inattentive. One by one, except for the woman who seems to be his de facto girlfriend, the friends reveal that they don’t actually [...]
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Robin Williams is an improv artisan, an Oscar-winning dramatic actor and the kind of off-the-cuff performer who seems to live in a perpetual animated state of comic creation.
In his latest film, “License to Wed,” Williams plays an over-the-top pastor who puts a young, ready-to-marry couple through an intrusive pre-wedding prep [...]
Michael Moore filmography
`Sicko’ (2007)
`Fahrenheit 9/11′ (2004)
`Bowling for Columbine’ (2002)
`The Big One’ (1997)
`Roger & Me’ (1989)
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Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing “Paprika” might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home.
As he has proved with previous works “Millennium Actress” (2001) and “Tokyo Godfathers” (2003), Kon is a [...]
[Read more...]Eli Roth’s “Hostel: Part II” will leave most viewers - including hard-core horror fans - feeling dirty.
This sequel to the super-violent splatter film gives a more gruesome and more fetish-filled spin to Roth’s “Hostel,” but it tells virtually the same story as the controversial 2005 original, about [...]
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It isn’t often that you get to meet the devil in all his glory, but here he is in “Deliver Us From Evil,” and his name is the Rev. Oliver O’Grady.
A priest from Southern California who raped dozens of children from the 1970s until his arrest and conviction in 1993 - [...]
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
1. “Shrek the Third”
$122 million
2. “Spider-Man 3″
$28.5 million
3. “28 Weeks Later”
$5.15 million
4. “Disturbia”
$3.7 million
5. “Georgia Rule”
$3.5 million