Month: July 2007

Ingmar Bergman

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Ingmar Bergman, Famed Film Director, Dies at 89
By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN
Published: July 30, 2007
The Swedish “poet with the camera” dominated the world of film making in the second half of the 20th century.

Microsoft without Bill Gates

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Gates Plans His Leave Amid Great Change
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: July 30, 2007
Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, still intends to step away next year as planned. But so far, Mr. Gates, the company’s chairman, is showing no sign of fading away.

Parker Posey

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An Indie Star Whose Life Is an Indie Film
By DAVID CARR
Published: May 6, 2007
No matter what Parker Posey sets out to do, it always seems to turn into an indie movie.

Who Watches the Watchmen? – Film Rumors or Fact?

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Grindhouse | Dir: Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez 2007

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Back to the (Double) Feature
Published: April 6, 2007
Grindhouse

Inside Man | Dir: Spike Lee 2006

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Inside Man
Published: March 24, 2006
Inside Man

Noir in the City:

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Noir and the City: Dark, Dangerous, Corrupt and Sexy
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
Published: July 22, 2007
The movies in Film Forum’s N.Y.C. Noir series explore themes of guilt, desire, ambition and powerlessness, which New Yorkers know a thing or two about.

The NZ’ers are at it again:

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A Family in Harmony
By ZOË WOLFF
Published: June 17, 2007
“Flight of the Conchords,” a new series, makes its debut as part of HBO’s now Sopranos-less Sunday night lineup.

No End in Sight | Dir: Charles Ferguson 2007

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In the Beginning: Focusing on the Iraq War Enablers
Published: July 27, 2007
No End in Sight

Two distinct views of the Hollywood Machine

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Chief of Universal Finds Success at the Back of the Pack
By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES
Published: July 16, 2007
Though profitable for the last nine years, Universal has been noticeably short on blockbusters to call its own. And that is largely by design.

Summer Cinema’s One-Week Wonders
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: July 18, 2007
This summer is proving the apotheosis of the one-week blockbuster.