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Category: Film
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Just before she became all the rage on the news, backing her husband Rupert in hearings about the British tabloid scandal, famously diverting the path of a cream pie, Wendi Murdoch was interviewed in Southampton on Saturday at a private screening of a movie she co-produced with Florence Sloan, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
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Morgan Freeman, the actor who portrayed Nelson Mandela in the movie Invictus, defined heroism at a luncheon of luminaries in television, theater, journalism, and film at the Four Seasons on Monday, July 18. The occasion: the 93rd birthday of Nelson Mandela, perhaps the most heroic man of our time for his 67 years of public…
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Opening this week, Life, Above All, a film set in a small South African township, was the closing night feature of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center in June. Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted particularly by two young girls who had only the experience of singing in the school choir before being…
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Jewish mothers became the secret stars of the evening as Harvey Weinstein introduced a private screening of Sarah's Key at MoMA on Monday: the evening's host Diane von Furstenberg is such a mother as is his own, Miriam, who was in the audience, happy, he said, that this new film was not controversial in the…
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Spirits soar over snow capped mountains, a sword wielding hero, Wu Song, slays a man-eating tiger, a dance corps in Barbie pink clusters like plum blossoms, another twirls handkerchiefs, nymphs frolic in the waves. Heaven opens its gates. In spectacular color and gorgeous costumes, Shen Yun, a New York based arts group enacts the rich…
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You'd be wise not to accept a glass of red wine from Warwick Wilson, the character played by David Hyde Pierce in his new movie, The Perfect Host. That epithet aside, let's just say his cooking skills may be impeccable, but his intentions are more than intoxicating.
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Pawn to king 4. Last Tuesday, Bryant Park was a chess fest. Young and old, seasoned and novice players sat head in hands contemplating plastic pieces on the checkered mats. You could hear a pawn drop. Some, like Jay Bonin and Asa Hoffman, were guys I knew back in the day when I was dating my…
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He always shows up, said director Bill Haney, explaining why he bestowed a bald eagle crafted out of recycled moose antler by Iroquois Indian Stan Hill to Robert Kennedy, Jr. “He walks with kings and still has the common touch,” Haney went on praising Kennedy's commitment to the men and women in Appalachia threatened by…
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Jazz lost one of its own last week, with the death of Bruce Ricker. Not a player per se, Ricker, a lawyer with a passion for jazz assembled Jay McShann, Count Basie, and Big Joe Turner in Kansas City for a jam session and filmed it. The resulting Last of the Blue Devils (1979) was a unique…
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Hello, I'm Buck, says the man in the large brimmed hat, brown leather jacket, brown stitch trimmed white shirt, and red silk tie with horses, completely disarming a guest to the private screening of a documentary film about him on Tuesday night. Buck, the movie, has been circulating the festivals, touted as a crowd-pleaser for…
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In a new documentary L'Amour Fou about the iconic Yves St. Laurent, it is hard to tell just what is the object of that besotted state: his work, his substantial art collection, his posh homes in Paris, Marrakech and Normandy, opulently decorated with antiques and woven fabrics. From the perspective of Pierre Berge, St. Laurent's…
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The actress Geena Davis was awarded the Sarasota Film Festival's first “Impact Award” for her work on promoting the visibility of women in the media. Suddenly shy, the tall movie star, “Thelma” of Thelma and Louise, turned her back to diners feasting on shell fish and short ribs on the Sarasota Opera House stage,…
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Our American democracy is the most fragile of political systems, to be tweaked and twisted into serving injustice and blatant hysteria for revenge. Sound familiar? But this news is not ripped out of the post-9/11 headlines. A new movie directed by Robert Redford, The Conspirator, is set in the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.…
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Patricia Clarkson looked at her watch at the Chelsea Room, at the after party for the movie Win Win. Co-host with Tony Gilroy of this celebration of the movie Win Win, she would be on a plane in six hours, en route to her hometown of New Orleans to help with a theater fundraiser. All…
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“Who would not want to see my film?” asked painter/director Julian Schnabel at the premiere of his new movie Miral. Shown at the UN’s General Assembly, with a quarter of a million dollar screen and sound equipment supplied by Gucci, Miral reflects Schnabel’s scale: out-sized and awesome. Still, his question was provocative and ambiguous,…
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By the end of last night's premiere of Limitless, a new movie starring Bradley Cooper, everyone wanted to have what he has: the dream drug for over-achievers that keeps his character so upbeat and so focused, he simply cannot fail. A novelist with chronic writers block and scruffy hair, Eddie pens his book, learns the…
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If you ever had a doubt that the French are obsessed with love, or at least have a different mindset about all variations: amour fou, fidelity, passion, adultery than we puritanical Americans, check out their movies. On this matter, the French are consistent. Even in an epic length period drama like The Princess of Montpensierwith…
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Co-host with Anne Hathaway at the Academy Awards show in Los Angeles, James Franco picks up his cell phone, a prop for peering into the dreams of the show's prior beloved M.C., Alec Baldwin. The Inception parody is played for laughs, but those in the know were poised to honor Baldwin's career the next night,…
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On a frigid Wednesday last week, an inexplicable friction left my hair standing on end. Good thing I would be meeting Vidal Sassoon tonight, for the premiere of a documentary Vidal Sassoon: The Movie. I could ask this artist whose shapes defined the look of the ’60’s about the electric gravity defying moment, about the…
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