'Chinatown' Makers Recall How Classic Made
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Thirty years after a broken Jack Nicholson was escorted off a blood-soaked street with the warning "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown," the movie's portrayal of dark, capitalist evil corrupting sunny Los Angeles remains as vivid as ever.
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The film is a classic immigrant saga about how profoundly disorienting it can be to live in two cultures.
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Andy Lau gives "The Departed" &#151; an Americanized version of one of his movies &#151; an eight out of 10. The new Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson was inspired by the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," which features Lau and Tony Leung.
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A CITY will hold its traditional Chinese New Ye
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While audiences half way across the  world shower Chinese arthouse cinema with adulation and awards,  finding viewers at home can seem much harder.
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The movies in this yearâs Toronto Film Festival were collectively like a wayback machine to the obsessionsâand the memorable filmmakingâof the â60s and â70s
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This Hollywood film is a time-pass fun flick.
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Director Peter Jackson's first attempt to remake "King Kong" featured an Empire State Building constructed out of cardboard and a Manhattan skyline painted on an old bedsheet. It was an amateur effort, but Jackson was only 13 at the time. He has a bigger budget now, at 43.
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Films use artwork the way they have long used music: to set a mood.
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Following the success of The Ring and, more recently, The Grudge, a slew of Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror movies are in the pipeline. But audiences beware: These are not your typical monster-in-the-closet scary movies.
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In the tradition of great, and not so great, boxing movies, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" seems to have the makings of a classic.
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A silent cinema revival glories in black-and-white imagery and rich live music for postmodern tales. It makes an "unfilmable" Lovecraft classic a piece of cake. By John Brownlee.
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HONG KONG -- For decades, Chinese filmmakers haven't made a major feature film about one of the biggest wartime atrocities suffered by their country: the Nanjing massacre of 1937. Now  two directors are preparing to make movies set against the Japanese military's brutal killings in the former...
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BEIJING  - Atop a replica ancient fortress outside Beijing, Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Chan directs Japanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro in Mandarin.
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If the upcoming movies  "Hollywoodland" and "The Black Dahlia" prove anything, it's  that making a movie set in old Los Angeles ain't what it used  to be.
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This tiny shot-on-video downer hits theaters at the same time as a more deluxe home version of Martin Scorsese's career-making melodrama Mean Streets comes to DVD. The timing is probably coincidence, because Creek's anti-urban setting (largely a boat in rocky waters) has far more in common with several other well-known movies, which is part of its problem.
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Make no mistake: Kenneth Branagh's "Sleuth" is not a remake of the 1972 film.