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Swamped with swag at Sundance
At the Sundance festival, corporate marketing is omnipresent, even threatening to overshadow the films The frenzied pursuit of swag was peaking Saturday inside T-Mobile's 1,500-square- foot Boost Mobile Lounge, the glitziest of the gifting suites at the Sundance Film Festival. The place heaved with celebrities of all stripes - from Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden to rapper Chamillionaire - there to gather up free jewelry, high-end handbags and $25,000 diamond-encrusted iPod cases attached to gold necklaces, all with the understanding that their acceptance was an implicit product endorsement.Read more : 24.01.2008 05:00:00
Writers drop two demands
Animated film, reality TV proposals abandoned; talks may resume Hollywood's striking writers, signaling a possible thaw in their nearly three-month-old labor dispute, have agreed to drop two demands that studios have long viewed as nonstarters.Read more : 24.01.2008 05:00:00
Viewership for HBO's 'The Wire' declines
The audience for HBO's Baltimore-based crime drama The Wire continued to shrink last week, dropping to a season low of 846,000 viewers.Read more : 24.01.2008 05:00:00
Strike is still on; so are Razzies
In a vast sea of uncertainty, with all of Hollywood worrying that no one will show up for the big-time awards shows, it's nice to know that one thing remains certain:Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
'Untraceable' doesn't quite click
Untraceable lambastes us for being amoral voyeurs as it panders to our baser instincts at the same time.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
Keaton shorts, live music
Curt Heavey of art-rock band Boister will play guitar and banjo music to accompany a showing of rarely screened shorts by Buster Keaton, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. The shorts include The Scarecrow, which involves madcap chases, The Paleface, which deals with evil oil barons and American Indians, and One Week, a comedy about newlyweds and a do-it-yourself home project. Tickets are $8-$12. Information: 410-276-1651 or go to creativealliance.org.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
Rough-and-tumble 'Rambo' hits target
There's something oddly touching about Sylvester Stallone's march down memory lane, dusting off one of his most iconic characters for another outing after years in mothballs. As with 2006's Rocky Balboa and now Rambo, the 60-year-old star dons the persona like a comfy old suit, a little worse for wear but eminently recognizable.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
Coppola's rewarding and spirited 'Youth'
Francis Ford Coppola convinces you that lightning can strike twice, and in more ways than one, in his first film in a decade, Youth Without Youth. His renewed passion for moviemaking makes a zigzag narrative easy and rewarding to follow. But not too easy - where would be the fun in that? Yet for a film whose ingredients include the transmigration of souls, the synchronicity of past, present and future, and the merger of dreams and reality - as well as the peculiar interests of Nazis and Orientalists - Youth Without Youth is surprisingly absorbing and romantic. Coppola's fidelity to the novella by Mircea Eliade can make sections of the film appear rushed or clotted, but by the end you feel immersed in a rejuvenating spring.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
No one should be this wedded to bridesmaid duties
The film 27 Dresses makes maids of honor seem more like, well, maids.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
She's a funny moneymaker
Actress cashes in on more than 30 years of cinematic ups and downs Diane KeatonRead more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
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