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Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK Is "Worth The Price Of Admission"!!

Beaks here... It's nice to see the critical consensus... if not turning around on Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, then at least balancing out. Charlie Kaufman has proven his mettle as a visionary writer many times...

1. The Newman movie alternatives

Say Paul Newman and films like The Sting, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, and Cool Hand Luke immediately come to mind. But the screen legend left a rich legacy of quirky and conflicted performances too.

'The Godfather': The movie you can't refuse

Film returns to the big screen restored and as relevant as ever For anyone in America's fabled "movie generation" - men and women who were in college or just out of it when The Godfather came out in 1972 - Francis Ford...

Pencil This In...Friday

There's a weekend festival at the La Brea Tar Pits starting tonight. Did you know La Brea means "the tar"? / Photo by Gamma Infinity via LAist's flickr pool. FREESTYLING*: Latin battle MCs take to the stage tonight at the Pico...

Famous Cameos: What's he doing here?

There is nothing quite as efficient as a cameo to get a laugh in a movie. Both Tom Cruise playing a film producer in Tropic Thunder and, bizarrely, Salman Rushdie as an obstetrician (in Then She Found Me) have raised many...

A buddy tale in the old West

By Carrie Rickey Inquirer Film Critic Rating: The place: Appaloosa, a lawless frontier town in New Mexico. The time: 1882. The Man: Virgil Cole, hired gun. Ed Harris directs himself as Virgil in Appaloosa, a western quarried...

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Remembering a movie star who turned himself into a great actor Paul Newman, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was that rarest of creatures, a movie star who turned himself into a great actor. Paul Newman, who died last...

Trailer Cache: Australia

The new trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Austrailia has us a little dumbfounded. The film, Mr. Luhrmann's first since striking the fancy of Oscar voters seven years ago with his multiple nominated revisionist musical Moulin Rouge!,...

Career built on character

PAUL Newman and glamour were indivisible. It was sometimes said of him that his good looks carried him effortlessly through his screen career, without any tangible application of talent. Handsome and therefore limited...

Paul Newman, Hollywood's anti-hero, dies

Paul Newman never much cared for what he once called the "rubbish" of Hollywood, choosing to live in a quiet community on the opposite corner of the US map, staying with his wife of many years and long after he became...

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