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R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Not as far as I can see.

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2008-03-31 02:10:44 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...Broadway stage did not initially inspire a great deal of confidence. For all those who wondered if the people behind the decision to retrieve this glittery corpse from its mirror-balled, midnight movie grave were actually serious, the answer is and for this we must all give thanks of course not. The creators of Xanadu not only acknowledge how...
 
Tags: musical, musical xanadu, xanadu, xanadu hits, xanadu rises, source material, stage, stage incarnation, time
 
 
 
 
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The Wow Factor

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2008-05-02 05:01:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...Broadway musical to deal frankly with the subject of racism Show Boat , Hammersteins landmark collaboration with Jerome Kern, preceded it by about 20 years South Pacific was groundbreaking in terms of just how direct, and directly confrontational, it was in its approach. In putting racial prejudice under the microscope, the authors were also...
 
Tags: musical theater heck, musical theater, south pacific, south pacific describes, contemporary musical theater, restores south pacific, theater, york theater critics, stage
 
 
 
 
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It's Good to Be Bad (Make that Really, Really Bad)

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2007-11-30 11:09:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...Broadway Chalk this up to the fact that this tiny cyclone of terror in polyester prints and day-glo lipstick - whose woefully misplaced confidence is matched only by her ruthless hunger for success - is played by the infinitely resourceful Rosie Perez, an actress who knows exactly which notes to hit even when hitting the wrong ones. Her...
 
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James Naremore

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2007-06-25 07:40:00 by girish in girish
...Broad in scope and erudite 4) The Future of Academic Film Study (in Movie Mutations , 2003). A conversation with Adrian Martin. Ive included an excerpt below Also: available on-line are an interview with Naremore at Senses of Cinema ; an excerpt on Marlene Dietrich from his book Acting in the Cinema ; and the essay The Death and Rebirth of...
 
Tags: film noir, film, film studies development, naremore, james naremore, radical film theory, academic film study, film quarterly, film studies
 
 
 
 
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THE VIOLINThe Evening Class Interview With Francisco Vargas

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2007-12-30 22:45:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...broad sense, not a specific one Guillén: Does your film thus express an ongoing struggle taking place not only in Latin America but throughout the Global South Vargas: People who have studied these movements throughout Latin America have said that if you do not attack the conditions that cause people to rise in arms, then the conditions...
 
Tags: film, film-forward, film tierra caliente, cannes film festival, film shown, film journey, film director, mexican film, film starts
 
 
 
 
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There Will Be Blood

2008-01-24 03:45:44 by Andrew in Lucid Screening - A Film Blog
 
...broad allegorical fable Anderson had in mind. To be fair, interviews with both Paul Thomas Anderson and Day-Lewis have suggested they never intended the film as a political polemic; it was the telling of one mans personal story all along So why did There Will Be Blood affect me so much? On paper, Blood s a film I should have hated. Like...
 
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NGOs to new government: Don't approve film censorship law

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2008-02-18 18:55:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...broad computer crimes law; don't enact the law on broadcasting wavelength Other's "don'ts" for the government: no nuclear power project and no free-trade talks until a relevant law is approved Passed as a rubber-stamp item by the junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly, just before the December 23 election, the film censorship and...
 
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Writers Ratify Pact, Take Aim At Sweetheart Deals

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2008-02-27 01:23:16 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...Broad when I reached him today: "It was established in good faith that there are third parties sharing in [the profit] from these--some things you shouldn't have to bargain for. This is a species of funny Hollywood accounting that's been the subject of a slew of suits Indeed, recent history shows that the producers of shows like the...
 
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You're Being Watched Malcolm Lee...

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2008-02-27 23:09:00 by Invisible Woman in Invisible Woman.....Black Cinema At LARGE
...broader than Spike. He was more accessible. For anyone who was starting to find Spikes work a little pretentious, here was a revised Lee modelnow with 50% less Agenda Three years passed before Lee ventured a sophomore project. His offering: Undercover Brother , a Blaxploitation parody of sorts that saw Eddie Griffin as the titular secret...
 
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