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A year ago, James Cameron surprised the world by taking a submersible he’d secretly developed to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, nearly seven miles below sea level.
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Terrence Malick, for whom the phrase “iconoclastic filmmaker” could have been invented, used to disappear for decades between his dark and mysterious films.
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They played in a ramshackle ballpark on the prairie during the most trying economic period of modern times. The stands were separated from the field by chicken wire, the locker room had no showers, fans parked their cars in the outfield. This was baseball in Bismarck, North Dakota, in the 1930s.
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Hours after “The Testament of Mary” received a Tony nomination for Best Play of the 2012-13 season, the producers announced that the one-woman show will close this weekend following just 16 performances.
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Most movies today are shot in high- definition digital and viewed on ever-smaller screens. Here are four cinematographers of yore who actually shot their films...on film.
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The ad for “The Bourne Legacy” informs us, “There Was Never Just One.” And so it is with the “Bourne” movies.
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“I lived with my mother intimately for 22 years and never saw the furniture. On every piece of furniture was a sheet to keep the dust off.”
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The 007 movie franchise has turned 50 with the release of “Skyfall,” one of the best in the series. It’s already breaking box-office records overseas.
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After John Schlesinger made “Midnight Cowboy,” which won the Oscar in 1969 for best picture and director, he had carte blanche to make any film he wanted.
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With the possible exception of Bible-based movies, the Christmas genre is the most likely to suffer from reverence overload.
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