Articles tagged "christopher plummer"

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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus dir. Terry Gilliam (trailer)

by Matt Mazur

[10.Aug.09] :. This new Terry Gilliam film will surely get major play because it features the final performance of Heath Ledger, but that aside, the visual side of the movie looks mind-blowing. Add in Colin...

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

 

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Christopher Plummer sounds off in autobiography

by Chauncey Mabe [Sun Sentinel (MCT)]

[11.Mar.09] :. Christopher Plummer, possibly the greatest actor alive, cheerfully acknowledges that he long ago wearied of talking about “The Sound of Music,” the 1965 musical that made him a movie...

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The thrills are alive — still — for Christopher Plummer

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[15.Dec.08] :. We’ve seen so much of Christopher Plummer in recent years, playing Dickensian villains, Spike Lee schemers and menacing political operators, it’s as if Hollywood suddenly discovered the...

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Film DVD Review

Syriana (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.06] :. If you come away with nothing else from Syriana, it's that this concept -- winning -- is an illusion, at least in any sort of long run.

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The New World (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. The New World is ambitious and gorgeous, the landscape serving as a kind of objective correlative for characters' cravings and astonishments.

 

Syriana (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Nov.05] :. This Middle Eastern spy thriller is complex and earnest, a film that repays close attention.

 

Alexander: Director’s Cut (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe.

 

Must Love Dogs (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jul.05] :. This family thing is looking rather grim now, as if it's about to swallow the rest of the movie whole.

 

Alexander (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman.

 

National Treasure (2004)

by Lesley Smith

[19.Nov.04] :. Popular propaganda at its best -- high quality creative work allied to a resounding endorsement of a status quo the American electorate seems determined to maintain.

 

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country [Special Edition] (1991)

by James Oliphant

[2.Feb.04] :. It is a reminder of the power the faded franchise once commanded.

 

Ararat (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Nov.02] :. As usual in Egoyan's films, tangled familial relationships inspire chaos and meanness as much as understanding and benevolence.

 

The Insider (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

Michael Mann's film The Insider is about blowing the lid of conspiracy off the tobacco industry. Although the film is ostensibly about one corporate produced addictive narcotic, that is nicotine, it is really about two, the other one being capital.

 

Dracula 2000 / Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - PopMatters Film Review )

by Todd R. Ramlow

Frankly, it doesn't seem coincidental that these films are being released around the holidays; certainly Dracula's bloodsucking lust appeals on some level to our own holiday consumer frenzies.

 

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

by Lesley Smith

A Beautiful Mind idealizes mental illness as spectacle, a feel-good gladiatorial games of the psyche where the human spirits always triumphs and love always blooms.