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Director Nicholas Hytner Rolls with \"The Lady in the Van\"
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By Laura Blum Who is the lady in The Lady in the Van and how\'d she get there? Nicholas Hytner\'s newest film puzzles out this enigma till the end, but one thing\'s settled early on: she\'s most unladylike. The title also tells us so. Ladies come in manors, not vans. From here the dualities only co ...
- 9.48 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Tattoo Artist Paul Booth Opens Gallery Transcending Dark Arts
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By Laura Blum As much as Paul Booth\'s skin is marked by dark art, the tattoo artist himself is marked by an ethos of barefaced candor. “I\'m a rebel and an outsider and an outcast as a child,\" he told thalo.com last Saturday evening while inking a sleeping dragon on his last client of the d ...
- 9.54 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Costume Designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux Spruces Up \"Brooklyn\"
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By Laura Blum Brooklyn, a period drama starring Saoirse Ronan as an Irish immigrant to America, is about love, loss and what Ronan wore. So naturally thalo.com got with its costume designer, Odile Dicks-Mireaux, to explore the graceful and evocative threads that have Oscar oracles humming. \"This ...
- 9.56 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Director James Vanderbilt on the Look of \"Truth\"
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Byline: Laura Blum Here\'s how writer/direct James Vanderbilt visualized Truth, his dramatization of the Rathergate scandal that surrounded a questionable \"60 Minutes II\" story produced by Mary Mapes in 2004. Vanderbilt \"wanted the film to feel very lush and full of life at the beginning, and as ...
- 9.57 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"Miles Ahead\": Don Cheadle Tunes Into Miles Davis
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By Laura Blum Miles Ahead, a portrait of music icon Miles Davis, is actor Don Cheadle\'s first shot at directing. Fans of both may attend without fear. A riffy, restless fusion, the film takes its key from the temperamental makeup of the artist and his music. \"I was born modal,\" Cheadle\'s Davis ...
- 9.62 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"Steve Jobs\" DP Alwin H. Küchler Shoots in Three Acts
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By Laura Blum \"Steve Jobs\' aesthetic and the world of Apple Computer half-led us to the digital age, which is where the idea came from to start shooting Steve Jobs in film and to progress to the digital format.\" That was the first insight cinematographer Alwin H. Küchler, BSC, shared with t ...
- 9.63 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Laurie Anderson\'s \"Heart of a Dog\" Has Heart and Soul
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By Laura Blum For more than four decades, Laurie Anderson has been telling us stories about her soul. In the avant-gardists\'s entrancing new movie Heart of a Dog, she expresses the spirit of her deceased rat terrior as well. Lolabelle, as Anderson told me in 2010, was her \"best friend.\" So it\'s ...
- 9.64 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Michael Moore Wonders \"Where to Invade Next\"
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By Laura Blum In Michael Moore\'s new documentary, Where to Invade Next, there\'s a scene where the CEO of Ducati motorcycles says, \"There is no clash between the profit of the company and the wellbeing of the workers.\" Moore is in Italy inspecting the dulce vita of a citizenry that enjoys sex, s ...
- 9.65 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"Experimenter\": How Production Design Tells the Stanley Milgram Story
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By Laura Blum Stanley Milgram, the social psychologist at the center of Experimenter, mounted numerous studies during his controversial career, though none still excite debate like his \"obedience to authority\" series. That very spirit of experimentation permeates Michael Almereyda\'s seductive bi ...
- 9.66 years ago - By Laura Blum
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