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This year, summer movies not only about men

May 1, 2011

From its earliest days, Hollywood has been a boy’s club. And summer traditionally is the season of boy movies ― big, loud, rude and not terribly smart. So what are we to make of the summer of 2011 ...
Box Office

Apr 29, 2011

Mao’s last dancer (Australia) Opening April 28 Drama. Directed by Bruce Beresford. A drama based on an autobiography by Li Cunxin. Eleven-year-old Li (Chi Cao) from a poor Chinese village is taken ...
Reese Witherspoon occasionally welcomes disorder in her life

Apr 29, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― As far as tightly wound actresses go, Reese Witherspoon tops the list. She insists upon a strict sense of order in her life. Her production company is called Type A, a moniker her lates...
Universal soups up ‘Fast and Furious’

Apr 29, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― Hoping to transform one of its few successful film series into a top-tier global franchise, Universal Pictures has refueled “Fast and Furious” with an international backdrop, a bigger p...
Jude Law in Austria for ‘360’ film

Apr 27, 2011

VIENNA (AP) ― Hollywood actor Jude Law is among the stars of “360” ― a new movie partly set in the Austrian capital in which the British heartthrob plays a man whose marriage has hit a lull. The fil...
Tribeca documentaries examine bullying, toxicity

Apr 25, 2011
Hollywood’s latest trend reimagines classic childhood tales

Apr 25, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― All grown up, Hansel and Gretel return to the forest to exact revenge on their childhood tormentors. Snow White escapes the Evil Queen and takes up with a group of Shaolin monks. And af...
Emma Watson takes break from Brown University

Apr 24, 2011

Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series, is to put her studying on hold. “I’ve decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on ‘Harry Potter’ … an...
How Sidney Lumet fought showbiz blacklist

Apr 22, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― I’d almost forgotten what an unabashed liberal Sidney Lumet had been until I read an essay by New York Post critic Kyle Smith, an unabashed conservative who has little good to say about...
Box Office

Apr 22, 2011

Norwegian Wood Opening April 21 Drama. Directed by Tran Anh Hung. Upon hearing the Beatles’ song “Norwegian Wood,” a Japanese businessman reminisces about the intense romance of his university days...
Director Max Winkler’s persistence pays off with ‘Ceremony’

Apr 22, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― When Max Winkler set out to make a movie, he made one thing clear: He didn’t want any help from his Hollywood veteran father, no matter how tempting the prospect. Editing his directori...
‘Journals of Musan’ to screen with English subtitles

Apr 21, 2011

“The Journals of Musan” will be shown with English subtitles at Cinecode Sonje in Samcheong-dong this week. A scene from “The Journals of Musan” (JINJIN Pictures) “The Journals of Musan” is directo...
‘Ghost’ selected for Cannes short film competition

Apr 21, 2011

The short film “Ghost,” directed by Lee Jung-Jin (a.k.a. Ma Dahci), has been selected for the Short Film Competition of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. “Ghost” is a 10-minute thriller about a crimina...
Animated documentaries tell real-life stories

Apr 18, 2011

Canadian director brings film about artists with Down syndrome to Women’s Film Festival Canadian animation director Shira Avni makes films that are “in between genres.” “Animated documentaries don’...
Box Office

Apr 15, 2011

Norwegian Wood Opening April 21 Drama. Directed by Tran Anh Hung. Upon hearing The Beatles’ song “Norwegian Wood,” a Japanese businessman reminisces about the intense romance of his university days...