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Oscar Notes: Part One

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2007-12-13 00:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...biographical portrayals for the men this year, this one will probably be for a fictional character. But I'm sure the Academy is just itching for Martin Scorsese to finish his biopic of Teddy Roosevelt with Leonardo Dicaprio (yes you read that correctly) so they can get back to handing out Oscars for biographical performances There have been...
 
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Truth Or Illusion? Seven Different Biopics

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2008-01-08 17:53:19 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...biographical pictures (like Aguirre: The Wrath of God or Fitzcarraldo ) reveals "something deeply inherent, where you recognize yourself as a human being again, where you find images that have been dormant inside of you for so many years and all of a sudden it becomes visible and understandable for you -- you read the world differently, your...
 
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Duders Bookshelf: Conquering Italy

2008-06-04 13:37:21 by richardofdm in Doomed Movieblog
 
...biographical information, the book still gets pretty sad while discussing the final years of Fulcis life and film work. Thrower paints the director as a misunderstood and pigeonholed artist whose career took a nosedive much too early due to his poor health and the failing Italian movie business of the late 80s/early 90s. However, much like...
 
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Ghostbusters @ 25: Rick Moranis, Louis Tully and country music

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2008-10-03 12:00:00 by J.J. in As Little as Possible
...biographical rundown: After starting as a player on SCTV, Moranis spent most of the '80s and '90s as a sort-of movie star. Ghostbusters propelled him to starring roles in successful vehicles like Little Shop of Horrors , Spaceballs , Parenthood , Honey I Shrunk the Kid and its sequels. His wife died of liver cancer in 1991. He gave up the...
 
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Two-Disc Special Edition (Steven Spielberg, 2008)

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2008-10-10 08:44:00 by Yunda Eddie Feng in HD DVD Reviews
...biographical readings of movies as its too easy to fall into lazy habits of attributing anything and everything to psychological motivations. Yet, sometimes, movies are clearly biographical. For example, George Lucas initially wanted the eponymous hero to meet a long-lost daughter in a fourth Indiana Jones effort, but Steven Spielberg wanted...
 
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Blu-ray Disc (Steven Spielberg, 2008)

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2008-10-10 08:47:00 by Yunda Eddie Feng in HD DVD Reviews
...biographical readings of movies as its too easy to fall into lazy habits of attributing anything and everything to psychological motivations. Yet, sometimes, movies are clearly biographical. For example, George Lucas initially wanted the eponymous hero to meet a long-lost daughter in a fourth Indiana Jones effort, but Steven Spielberg wanted...
 
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Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)

2008-10-28 15:33:35 by Squish in filmsquish.com - reviews, editorials & insight on film and television
 
...Biographical Western Starring: Brad Pitt ( Fight Club Babel ), Casey Affleck ( Ocean's Eleven Gerry Directed By: Andrew Dominik ( Chopper Overview: After Robert Ford joins Outlaw Jesse James's gang hegrows to resent his idol's fame. This is the story of how Robert Ford would make his mark on history, by assassinating one of America's most...
 
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Thomson Twinge

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2008-10-31 14:46:19 by Editor in Culture Snob
...Biographical Dictionary of Film . And I can't imagine that I'm alone among his frustrated fans in being disappointed that his new tome reveals that the faults of his seminal, agitating Dictionary lie with the author and not with the constraints of that book My hope with "Have You Seen ... ?" (released in hardcover earlier this month) was...
 
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Laika (2007)

2008-12-10 23:51:13 by Squish in filmsquish.com - reviews, editorials & insight on film and television
 
...Biographical Fiction Writer and Illustrator: Nick Abadzis ( Vector 13 The Amazing Mr Pleebus Publisher: First Second Books ( A.L.I.E.E.E.N. American Born Chinese Overview: This is the part fictional, part biographical tale of the first dog to ever go to space: Laika It was Laika that made me realize that I needed to start documenting my...
 
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5. Melvyn Douglas, the renaissance man

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2007-11-01 00:01:00 by J.J. in As Little as Possible