Back in the days of Bogart and Bergman, Hepburn and Tracy, it was said that people learned how to fall in love — how to kiss, beguile, or just hold hands — by watching the people in the movies.
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Chinese Film Directors Protest Documentary on Uighur’s Kadeer
Political tension over the deadly riots that struck northwest China has spilled into an unlikely venue: the Melbourne International Film Festival. Three Chinese directors announced they were pulling their works from the event to protest the inclusion of a documentary about a Uighur activist. The Uighurs are a Turkic speaking, largely Islamic minority group concentrated in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region.
Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage has pretty much got this acting thing down.
The new face of Bollywood: Deepika Padukone
She’s only 23, but Deepika Padukone is already living a life millions would envy. The model-turned-actress was spotted in a music video and then cast in one of the biggest grossing films in Bollywood history. She still only has three movies under her belt, but star status has already been bestowed upon her
Midnight shows of Potter’s ‘Prince’ sell out
Fans of Harry Potter lined up at theaters all over the world early Wednesday, pushing the new film about the boy wizard to near-record ticket sales. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” — the sixth movie in the series based on J.K.
‘Half-Blood Prince’ stars imagine post-Potter future
It’s been 10 years since Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint first hopped on the Hogwarts Express, and the three have done little else since. Now that the ride will soon come to an end, the cast is trying to fathom a life without the Harry Potter films — an understandable difficulty, considering that they’ve grown up along with their characters. The other item showing its age is the storyline of the sixth installment, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Part humor and part horror with a healthy dose of hormones, “Half-Blood Prince” is clearly more attuned for an audience who, like the cast, are no longer in grade school
‘Half-Blood Prince’ finds Potter crew closer to end
The end is closer than the beginning. Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts are now in their sixth year of seven at the school. They’ve seen a lot of changes, particularly as the influence of the reawakened Voldemort (that is, He Who Must Not Be Named) has made itself known
Travolta’s wife to address grief over son’s death
Actress Kelly Preston, whose son Jett Travolta died earlier this year, will talk publicly in October about how she and her husband, actor John Travolta, have dealt with their grief. Preston, 46, will appear on a panel titled “Grief and Resilience” at a conference hosted by California first lady Maria Shriver, according to a conference spokeswoman. Jett, 16, was found unconscious on January 2, while on vacation with his family in the Bahamas’ West End
How Terry Gilliam saved Heath Ledger’s final movie
Is there a filmmaker in the world with worse luck than Terry Gilliam? He was directing Heath Ledger in "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus," when the actor died — and it’s not the first time he has lost a leading man. Jean Rochefort didn’t die eight years ago, but Gilliam had to abandon “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” after a few days when 70-year-old star Jean Rochefort became seriously ill and a flash flood washed away the entire set.
Depp channels inner outlaw in ‘Public Enemies’
He’s been a homicidal singing barber in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," and an drunken swashbuckler in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End." Now, Hollywood shape-shifter Johnny Depp is back as another unexpectedly charismatic outlaw: Depression-era bank robber, John Dillinger, a character he says he’s been drawn to since he was a boy. “I sort of had a fascination with John Dillinger when I was about 10, 11 years old, for some reason,” Depp told CNN. “I always kind of admired him, oddly.” Oddly, perhaps, because for a short but intense period between September 1933 and July 1934 Dillinger and his gang rampaged through the American Midwest, staging jail breaks, robbing banks and killing 10 men and wounding seven along the way