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The New Season Film: Are Films Bad, or Is TV Just Better?

NYT Movie Reviews - 1 hour 8 min ago
Attendance is down. At the water cooler, they’re talking about “Mad Men.” It’s hand-wringing time for cinephiles.

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Movie Review | 'Honeymoons': Stumbling Over Roadblocks to Love and Hope

NYT Movie Reviews - 4 hours 58 min ago
The first Albanian-Serbian co-production, the film “Honeymoons” (unsurprisingly about ethnic biases and tensions) has the courage to end in a kind of limbo.

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In Blair Memoir, Is It the Queen or 'The Queen'?

NYT Movie Reviews - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:42
Peter Morgan, the screenwriter of "The Queen," sees a similarity between his script for that film and a scene from Tony Blair's memoir, "A Journey."

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Godard May Attend Oscars After All

NYT Movie Reviews - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 08:55
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Mr. Godard had sent "a cordial, handwritten note" indicating that he might not snub a November awards ceremony.

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Filmmaker Ordered to Give Testimony in Chevron Case

NYT Movie Reviews - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 07:54
In a strongly worded opinion, a federal judge wrote the oil company's original request for Joe Berlinger's raw documentary footage was "no fishing expedition."

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Politics on Film, but This Time Leaning Right

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 19:48
“I Want Your Money,” a political documentary by Ray Griggs, is a minor triumph for one of the less visible minorities: the Hollywood right.

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Critics' Picks Video: 'Melvin and Howard'

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 14:24
A. O. Scott looks back at Jonathan Demme's 1980 film "Melvin and Howard."

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He's O.K.: 'Rocky Horror' Creator Given Residency in New Zealand

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:28
Richard O'Brien, the author and composer of the cross-dressing cult classic, will soon be permitted to retire to that nation's moon-drenched shores and sing and dance the Time Warp there once more.

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Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 10:16
At the Telluride Film Festival, some of the fall’s most anticipated movies get a test run.

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Kazan Documentary, With Scorsese Pedigree, Will Come to TV, DVD and Theaters

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 09:51
"A Letter to Elia," a documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, will be shown as part of PBS's "American Masters" series and released in a DVD boxed set of Elia Kazan movies.

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Lessons of the Summer Box Office

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 09:40
Movie attendance was down, but some films — like “Toy Story 3” and “Inception” — made out very, very well.

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Godard Won't Pick Up Honorary Oscar in Person

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 09:19
Anne-Marie Mieville, his wife and collaborator, said Mr. Godard would not travel to the U.S. for the award. "Would you go all that way just for a bit of metal?" she asked.

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Film: Driven by Fierce Visions of Independence

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 08:45
Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda,” a feminist portrayal of a woman struggling to survive, is being reissued.

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Movie Review | 'My Dog Tulip': A Tender Love Story Between Man and Dog

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 08:32
“My Dog Tulip,” an animated film based on the 1956 memoir by J. R. Ackerley, explores a lonely man’s devotion toward his pet.

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Movie Review | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China’s Industrial Locomotive

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 08:30
This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China’s accelerating economy.

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'Black Swan' Gives Telluride Another Surprise

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 06:30
Darren Aronovsky's "Black Swan" became the second big surprise of the Telluride Film Festival.

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May the Force of Nostalgia Be With You

NYT Movie Reviews - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 06:30
A vintage interview with Harrison Ford, recorded just as the "Star Wars" phenomenon was taking off, helps us stave off the unpleasant reality that the summer is over.

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Even Hit Like ‘Kick-Ass’ Can Seem Like Miss at Debut

NYT Movie Reviews - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:10
The film “Kick-Ass” fell short in its opening weekend, and bloggers wrote it off as a flop. Never mind that this $15 million film went on to sell almost $100 million in tickets.

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Alain Corneau, César-Winning Film Director, Dies at 67

NYT Movie Reviews - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:06
The director was best known for his 1991 award-winning film “Tous les Matins du Monde.”

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Power of the Natural World at Telluride

NYT Movie Reviews - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 11:27
Dramatic landscapes equal to the festival's natural surroundings figure in a number of movies here this year, including Danny Boyle's "127 Hours."

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