Fail-Safe
Released in 1964, Director Sidney Lumet's taut nuclear thriller is based on the 1962 Eugene Burdick and John Wheeler novel of the same title. Examining the changing face of war in the...
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Filmmaker Sidney Lumet (born 1924) has made some of America's most memorable movies, including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. His films have received more than 50 Academy Award nominations. ...
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My favorite still from a movie made in New York is not in this book. I first saw it as a child of 11 or 12—I could have been leafing though Daniel Blum’s A Pictorial History of the Sile...
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My favorite still from a movie made in New York is not in this book. I first saw it as a child of 11 or 12—I could have been leafing though Daniel Blum’s A Pictorial History of the Sile...
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As a swirling mix of family, actors, directors and producers remembered Robert Altman in a Manhattan service Tuesday, the overlapping, communal atmosphere reminded more than a few of the kind of sc...
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Today is Monday, June 25, the 176th day of 2007. There are 189 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If it's Halloween, it must
be time for the "Saw" horror franchise to scare up the top spot
at the North American box office. "Saw IV," the latest installment in the annual ...
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Best-selling writer Ira Levin, whose genre-hopping novels such as the horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" and the Nazi thriller "The Boys From Brazil" provided meaty movie roles for Mia Farrow and Lau...
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Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" received a leading seven nominations for the Critics' Choice Awards, announced Tuesday by the Broadcast Film Critics Association."Juno" got six nominations, while "Atone...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar has stirred up some
international intrigue. Some of 2007's most acclaimed international films will not
be competing for the foreign-language prize at the Academy
Awar...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein can put
away his shotgun. But Sean Penn might want to borrow it. The movie studio boss had promised to "shoot myself" if
Cate Blanchett did not get an Osca...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 24-30:June 24:Actor Al Molinaro ("Happy Days") is 88. Actress Michele Lee is 65. Drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac is 65. Actor-director Georg Stanfor...
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Fail-Safe
Sidney Lumet
From Park Slope to Katz\'d5s Deli: Gotham Captured on Celluloid
