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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
...biopics frequently become stale exercises in a series of facts. Or half-truths. Which is why any tweaking of the biopic is exciting. The most recent example, Todd Haynes' ambitious, critically acclaimed Bob Dylan study I'm Not There , in which six different actors took on the Dylan persona, was thrillingly unique. And Jake Kasdan's goofy Walk...
 
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Ip Man Biopics In The Works

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2008-02-27 20:14:30 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...biopics celebrating his life and work. We get wind of this very exciting story from the legendary caves of yahoo Bruce Lee is the master to many martial arts fans, but less is known about his master, Ip Man, a pioneer in the kung fu style that influenced Lee. Hong Kong On Tuesday, action stars Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung from the U.S. TV series...
 
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New Pictures From Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara Biopics

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2008-05-12 00:00:00 by Elisabeth Rappe in Cinematical
...biopics to the theatre, isn't it? In case you were beginning to doubt its existence again, two new photos of Benicio del Toro have surfaced online. Once again, the likeness is downright eerie At this point, as Eric Kohn reported , it is still set to screen at Cannes. However, only one half ( The Argentine ) has a U.S. distributor in Focus...
 
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Bettie Page on DVD: 2 pin-up queen biopics

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2008-12-12 05:06:21 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...biopics in the final years of her life.Both are out on DVD For a good time, call " Bettie Page: Dark Angel ." The low-budget filmcomes from director Nico B. of Cult Epics , who re-creates Page's 8mm bondage films to a rockabilly beat. Actress Paige Richards looks like Page's kid sister, bringing high spirits and a killer body to the part ...
 
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Bettie Page on DVD: 2 pin-up queen biopics

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2008-12-12 05:06:21 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...biopics in the final years of her life.??Both are out on DVD For a good time, call " Bettie Page: Dark Angel ." The low-budget film??comes from director Nico B. of Cult Epics , who re-creates Page's 8mm bondage films to a rockabilly beat. Actress Paige Richards looks like Page's kid sister, bringing high spirits and a killer body to the...
 
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Our Backstreets" #18: Whose Life Is It Anyway?

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2008-05-26 12:32:18 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...biopics. These films are practically destined to become fictions, lantern shows of good and evil. How does this happen? Historical records of long-dead figures may be lacking, contradictory, or deliberately embellished for the sake of posterity. If the subject is more contem- poraryand belovedit can be hard to show the warts and all without...
 
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The Biopic and the Assembly Line

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2008-09-07 07:15:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...Biopics are lame. Biopics about people of questionable artistry are even lamer. Sure, first time writer/director Rodger Grossman does little to justify a film about The Germs frontman Darby Crash, played here by Shane West of A Walk to Remember and televisions ER and Once and Again (punk, indeed), but all cinematic inabilities aside, whats...
 
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Moving Pictures: The Motion Picture

2008-12-03 19:52:00 by Editor in Movie Blog
 
...biopics end? Im so sick of biopics that I didnt even want to see Walk Hard the movie for people who are sick of biopics. Its only a matter of time before news will creep down from the Great White North that the Film Board of Canada is backing the production of Moving Pictures: The Motion Picture a feature length look into the life and time of...
 
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"And a Happy New Year to you...

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2008-12-30 09:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...biopics! Okay, that's too harsh. There are many I like actually, but on the whole, biopics bore me. I'd bet good money there are plenty of good wholly fictional stories out there in the minds of talented screenwriters that will never see the light of day because come Oscar time the studios want to put their "prestige movie money" into a...
 
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