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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Mira Nair's 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
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Watch Obama & Conan's Comedy at WHCD
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Affleck in Malick's 'To the Wonder'
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Danny Boyle's 'Trance'
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Ryan Gosling in "Place Beyond the Pines"
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Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral'
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Black Comedy 'It's a Disaster'
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Brilliant Melissa McCarthy on SNL (Video ...
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'Room 237,' Kubrick & Malkovich
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Justin Timberlake's Latest SNL (Video)
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Watch Ricky Gervais in 'The Office Revisited' ...
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'Downton Abbey' Kills Off You-Know-Who
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'Downton' Does 'Breaking Bad' (Video)
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James Franco's Risk-Free 'Oz'
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Review
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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Keira Knightley's Chilly 'Anna K.'
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'Skyfall': An Older, Better-Written Bond
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A Boy and His Tiger: 'Life of Pi'
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Brad Pitt, SNL on Chanel:Which Is Real?
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SNL's Lost Bond Girls
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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'The Master': Egotists and Cultists
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Jimmy Fallon Sings 'Romney & Bain'
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Watch "Andrew Sarris: Critic in Focus"
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Amy Poehler on Sex, Music (Video)
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Fallon Does "Downton Sixbey, Part 2"
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Jimmy Fallon Does Downton Abbey -
Edgy Obama At WH Correspondents Dinner -
Keanu Reeves' New Doc (Trailer) -
Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
Christoph Waltz on Quentin, Race in America, and 'Django Unchained' (Video Interview)
- By Caryn James
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- December 20, 2012 8:53 AM
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Django Unchained proves that Christoph Waltz’s amazing performance as a Nazi in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds was no fluke. He is every bit as vivid, and sly in a completely different way, in Tarantino’s latest film about slavery, violence and pre-Civil War America. To say that Waltz plays Dr. King Schultz, a bounty hunter who buys and frees the slave played by Jamie Foxx, then helps him find his wife, doesn’t begin to hint at the way the character develops, or how Waltz, perfectly in sync with Tarantino once again, subtly makes his character a moral compass as well as a fast-shooting Western sidekick, sometimes funny and sometimes eloquent.
Mike Bloomberg, Chris Christie and Some Jersey Hand Gestures (SNL Video)
- By Caryn James
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- November 4, 2012 11:16 AM
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I wonder how this will play outside New York and New Jersey, but if you’ve been watching Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press briefings you know that his sign language interpreter has become a minor celebrity. SNL’s cold open did a brilliant take on Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, along with their interpreters, at press conferences.
Daniel Day-Who? Louis C.K. Does Lincoln
- By Caryn James
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- November 4, 2012 10:17 AM
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What if Louis C.K. had been cast in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln instead of Daniel Day-Lewis? Or, as SNL had it, what if the character of Lincoln merged with the character from his television series Louie -- stand-up comic, acerbic observer of life, and in this case emancipator of slaves and preserver of the union?
Reclaiming the Scarlet Letter for Women's Rights: Martha Plimpton and "A is For"
- By Caryn James
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- November 2, 2012 7:43 PM
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Good old Hester Prynne, wearing her scarlet letter proudly – not a bad role model for women claiming their bodies as their own. Improbably, when it comes to women’s reproductive rights and health care, today’s political right seems to have channeled those 19th-century witchhunters Hawthorne wrote about. Now Martha Plimpton proves she’s as good an activist as she is an actor, founding a group called “A is For,” which fights against the 21st-century assault on women’s rights. The group’s savvy, wry symbol: a red A. Take a look at their all-star video featuring Plimpton, Amy Poehler, Billy Crudup, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and a raft of other high-profile advocates.
Preview: Henry Jaglom's Latest, 'Just 45 Minutes From Broadway'
- By Caryn James
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- October 8, 2012 10:01 PM
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Can actors ever be happy if they marry civilians? More than a question for gossip sites, that issue is also at the center of Henry Jaglom’s latest film, Just 45 Minutes From Broadway, which gives is a whole family of actors – unconventional, unruly, amusing (to us if not to each other). As they gather in their upstate house, lunching under the trees and discussing the theater, the film’s obvious touchstone is Chekhov. The patriarch, who came up through Yiddish theater, invokes him reverently.
Oliver Platt and Allison Janney On Making 'The Oranges' Comic Yet Real
- By Caryn James
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- October 3, 2012 9:15 AM
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In the fresh little film The Oranges, Oliver Platt and Allison Janney play the befuddled parents of a young woman (Leighton Meester) who successfully seduces her father’s best friend (played by Hugh Laurie). Yet somehow this is a comedy, thanks largely to Platt and Janney’s mastery as Terry and Carol Ostroff – he’s passionate about new gadgets, she is devoted to trying to bend her wild-child daughter to her will. Both react to their daughter’s love affair by being understandably outraged and comically flummoxed.
My Talk With Hugh Laurie and Catherine Keener About 'The Oranges'
- By Caryn James
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- October 2, 2012 1:01 PM
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My more suspicious friends might think I only did this interview to look into Hugh Laurie’s blue eyes – but who’s to say you can’t have many motives for one thing? Like talking to Laurie and Catherine Keener about The Oranges, a gutsy little film that turns a thoroughly inappropriate romance into a genial comedy grounded in reality.
Jimmy Fallon Channels James Taylor: "I've seen Romney, I've seen Bain."
- By Caryn James
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- September 8, 2012 8:28 PM
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James Taylor wrote some enduring lines with:
'Side By Side': Watch Dunham, Gerwig And Others In Outtakes As Good As The Film
- By Caryn James
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- September 1, 2012 9:30 AM
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Side By Side, the terrific, widely-praised documentary with interviews by one of its producers, Keanu Reeves, has been available On Demand for a few weeks and is has just opened in New York – an event that offers your very own counterpart to the movie’s unexpectedly fascinating debate about film vs. digital technology. Do you watch at home or go old-school and actually visit a theater?
Watch Clint Eastwood Talk to Invisible Obama at RNC
- By Caryn James
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- August 30, 2012 11:19 PM
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There are no words . . . even Rachel Maddow was nearly stunned into silence at the end of Clint Eastwood's bizarre, rambling stand-up routine of a speech at the Republican National Convention. You can read a description - that Clint talked to an empty chair, pretending that President Obama was sitting there. But no description can prepare you for the odd reality of the cringe-worthy performance, part lame vaudeville comedy, part unintentional performance art. (In minutes, there was a Twitter account for "Invisible Obama.")
