Reality of &#39;Lights&#39; poignant, common
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It&#39;s just a movie, and not only that, it&#39;s a movie based on a nonfiction book about high school football, &quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; which has become a classic indictment of our sports culture and obsession with winning.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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Mr. Nykvist was one of the worldÂs foremost cinematographers whose poetic use of light illuminated many of Ingmar BergmanÂs greatest films.
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By Gary Levin  NBC has high hopes for Friday Night Lights, a new drama about a Texas high school football squad based on a best-selling book and feature film. Viewers will see some familiar names on the sidelines -- and not just the actors.
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&quot;Broadway! It&#39;s the street of dreams,&quot; says Julie Andrews breathlessly, as though the phrase had just been coined. There follows a river of reality, grim and otherwise, but usually fun.
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The one thing the movie &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; has working against it is there was this masterpiece of a book by the same name that came out 14 years before.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; is one of the best books I&#39;ve read about American sports - in large part because it&#39;s about much more than sports.
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When HG &quot;Buzz&quot; Bissinger talks about the sacrifices that were made to keep &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; at least semi-faithful to his book, the last scene in the film is the first thing that comes up.
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&quot;Closer&quot; must be an ironic title, since its vibes are consistently and often smugly alienating. Nevertheless, Patrick Marber&#39;s play, now adapted by the author for director Mike Nichols, has
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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Ok, I&#39;m not a football person. I never really understood the game -- I&#39;d rather see a good play or go to the movies. But &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; shows why football -- especially high school football -- inspire such loyal and rabid fans.
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Friday Night Lights is a lousy name for a very good movie. Relax, I know the title is based on investigative journalist HG Bissinger&#39;s 1990 book, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream, acclaimed
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On her indie debut, much like her  previous albums, Long Island, N.Y.-bred Lil&#39; Mo emotively  relates around-the-way tales of love and lust, heartache and  heartbreak.
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To see something they have never seen before should be every moviegoer&#39;s greatest hope. It&#39;s one of the chief reasons why true movie buffs are constantly seeking out new kinds of films; it can be entertaining
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The fascination of this documentary is the light it throws on Nureyevâs life and career before his escape from the Soviet Union, through candid observations by close friends as well as colleagues in Nureyevâs youthful Leningrad years.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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Although my favorite fiction films at Sundance were different in theme and tone, they were united by stylistic commonalities, a feel for the still moment â and, importantly, for beauty.