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Rent it now: David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’

David Fincher’s serial killer drama, “Zodiac,” was a financial wipe-out in 2007. Shockingly, when it debuted, the film did about a third of the business of that weekend’s other major Hollywood release,...

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The return of a great lost movie — David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’

David Fincher should have won the best directing Oscar Sunday night in Hollywood — he’s long overdue — but an even more egregious oversight occurred in 2007 when he wasn’t even nominated for “Zodiac.”...

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Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover – a star matures

The Clint Eastwood bio-pic “J. Edgar” opened to decent reviews and moderate box-office success last weekend, but it would be a shame if this movie is damned by faint praise. As the legendary Federal...

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‘The Seven Samurai’: celebrating a world cinema classic

No movie genre is more “American” than the Western, but foreign filmmakers have been very influential in its development. In the 1950s and 1960s there was lots of international cross-pollination in the...

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‘Casting By’ — finding the right actors for classic movies

HBO presented Tom Donahue’s excellent 2012 documentary “Casting By” last week, and if you missed it you should check it out on HBO Go or on demand pronto. The 90-minute film examines the work of movie...

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Who’s a bigger movie star — Robert Downey Jr. or Sandra Bullock?

New York Magazine’s very savvy entertainment web offshoot, Vulture, released its “100 Most Valuable Movie Stars” list a few days ago, with Robert Downey Jr. topping the chart for the second year in a...

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‘Behind the Scenes’: Judi Dench’s scrapbook memoir

Reading the text and savoring the many pictures in the new Judi Dench memoir, “Behind the Scenes” (St. Martin’s Press), often feels like going through one of the the actress’ scrapbooks with her...

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Is Chris Hemsworth a movie star?

Movie industry executives are still dazed by two big surprises over the weekend — the blockbuster grosses scored by Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” and the complete wipe-out of Michael Mann’s...

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‘Tab Hunter Confidential’: happy to be forgotten

The new documentary “Tab Hunter Confidential,” which premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin last week, presents an insider’s view of a period in Hollywood history when there was a vast...

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The man who sold ‘The Conversation’ & other classics

Dick Guttman has been at the center of the Hollywood public relations scene for more than a half-century, so his huge and fascinating memoir, “Starflacker,” is packed with goodies. Starting out with...

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‘Harry Benson’: from The Beatles to Obama

The documentary slate at the Greenwich International Film Festival is especially strong this year, on topics ranging from the life and career of TV legend Norman Lear to the new and powerful “Newtown”...

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‘Crisis’: minor, but funny Woody Allen

Woody Allen’s TV series debut, “Crisis in Six Scenes,” which was released for streaming via Amazon on Friday, received some of the most withering reviews the 80-year-old writer-director-actor has...

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‘Red-Blooded’: celeb shots with a difference

The Amphoto Books division of Penguin Random House has released “Red-Blooded American Male,” a collection of celebrity photographer Robert Trachtenberg’s striking and sometimes slightly off-kilter...

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‘EuroCrime!’: an unheralded ‘70s film genre

Mike Malloy looks at the dozens of cop and gangster pictures that were churned out in Italy during the 1970s in the engaging documentary “EuroCrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the...

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