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• The Success of a High-Pitched Whine

  Lucas Cruikshank created the character Fred Figglehorn in a series of popular YouTube videos. But can Fred carry a feature film?
  
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  by By BROOKS BARNES

• Advertising: The Two-Way Street for Film Promotions

  This season’s promotions are putting a new twist on the Happy Meal model of film marketing, with some efforts branching out into unexpected realms.
  
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:33am EST
  by By ARI KARPEL

• Arts, Briefly: But ‘Harvey’ Stalls

  Steven Spielberg has withdrawn from the film adaptation of Mary Chase’s 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Harvey,” Variety reported.
  
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:45am EST
  by Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS

• Arts, Briefly: ‘Moneyball’ Starts

  Sony Pictures Entertainment’s “Moneyball” is back in the game, with a new director, Bennett Miller, in negotiations to take over, Variety reported.
  
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:40am EST
  by Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS

• Arts, Briefly: ‘The Blind Side’ Overtakes ‘Twilight Saga’

  In a rare comeback for a movie that’s been out for three weeks, Warner Brothers’ “Blind Side” finally took possession of No. 1 at the box office.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:05pm EST
  by Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS

• Richard Todd, Dashing Actor, Dies at 90

  Mr. Todd was an Oscar-nominated actor best known for war dramas like “The Hasty Heart,” “The Dam Busters” and “The Longest Day.”
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:44am EST
  by By MARGALIT FOX

• Movie Review | 'Transylmania': Digging Up All the Old Vampire Jokes

  “Transylmania,” a vampire-hunter, college road trip sex comedy, has a problem: someone has drained all the laughs out of it.
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:20am EST
  by By MIKE HALE

• Movie Review | 'Armored': Truck Heist Hits a Skid in a B Movie With a Soul

  “Armored,” an unpretentious action thriller about a supposedly bloodless robbery that turns foul and messy, is basic, brutal and sometimes clumsy, but far from dumb.
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:28am EST
  by By A. O. SCOTT

• Film: Show Them the Money

  Movies’ men of business are failing boldly so success may abound.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:28pm EST
  by By A. O. SCOTT

• On Language: Skxawng!

  The making of science-fiction languages.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:56pm EST
  by By BEN ZIMMER

• Film: This Texan Knows How That Texan Sounds

  The music producer T Bone Burnett brings his skills to the soundtrack for “Crazy Heart.”
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  by By MARGY ROCHLIN

• DVDs: Akira Kurosawa in a Box, Including Early Rareties

  The most imposing DVD gift set of this holiday season is “AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa.”
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  by By DAVE KEHR

• Hollywood Chronicle

  Tony Curtis on Marilyn Monroe; Orson Welles’s daughter on her father; a biography of Clint Eastwood; and a memoir by a celebrity biographer.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by By ADA CALHOUN

• Polanski Starts House Arrest in Ski Resort

  The director Roman Polanski was released from custody on $4.5 million bail and transferred to house arrest in the upscale ski resort of Gstaad on Friday.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:30am EST
  by By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE

• Movie Review | 'Until the Light Takes Us': The Music of Church Burning

  “Until the Light Takes Us” recounts how a few Norwegian musicians hijacked an obscure offshoot of heavy metal.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:09am EST
  by By MIKE HALE

• Movie Review | 'Gigante': Love (Bashful) in the Nighttime Workplace (Oppressive)

  “Gigante” is a small, unpretentious slice of Uruguayan neo-realism.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:06am EST
  by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

• Movie Review | 'Mystery Team': College Humor on the Big Screen

  “Mystery Team” runs up against the hazard that confronts all sketch comedy: Can an idea that works for 5 minutes be sustained for more than 100?
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:01am EST
  by By DANIEL M. GOLD

• Movie Review | 'Big River Man': Swimming With Crocodiles, but Well Oiled

  With “Big River Man,” the director John Maringouin has shaped a richly textured narrative about human endeavor.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:02am EST
  by By MANOHLA DARGIS

• Film Series and Movie Listings

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:54am EST
  by By THE NEW YORK TIMES

• Movie Review | 'The Last Station': Following the Master to the End of the Line

  To say that the actors in “The Last Station” overdo it would be an understatement.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:54pm EST
  by By A. O. SCOTT

• Movie Review | 'Serious Moonlight': Love Triangle Bound by Tape and Talk

  “Serious Moonlight” suggests an unholy, watered-down hybrid of “The Ref” and “Funny Games,” played as a chirpy screwball comedy.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:52pm EST
  by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

• Movie Review | 'Paa': A Tale of India

  “Paa” has a weird I’m-my-own-grandpa charge.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:45pm EST
  by By RACHEL SALTZ

• Movie Review | 'Loot': Treasure and Memory Hunt

  In the engrossing, exasperating, exquisitely shot documentary “Loot,” a search for buried treasure becomes an unlikely trigger for emotional catharsis.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:41pm EST
  by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

• Movie Review | 'The Strip': A Devoted Worker in a Dead-End Job

  “The Strip” sweats to wring laughs from overworked themes and underwhelming performances.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:40pm EST
  by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

• Movie Review | 'Breaking Point': A Lawyer With a Tragic Past and Future

  After a particularly brutal, attention-grabbing start, “Breaking Point” quickly devolves into a flavorless stew of murder, corruption, blackmail and baby tossing.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:38pm EST
  by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

• Movie Review | 'Everybody’s Fine': De Niro Packs His Suitcase, Heading to Geezer Territory

  Warning: A putatively heartwarming dramatic comedy like “Everybody’s Fine” can be hazardous to your health.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:35pm EST
  by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

• Movie Review | 'Brothers': A War Abroad Ignites a Battle at Home

  “Brothers” is in some ways less a movie about war than a movie that uses war as a scaffolding for domestic melodrama.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:34pm EST
  by By A. O. SCOTT

• Movie Review | 'Up in the Air': Neither Here Nor There

  One of the pleasures of “Up in the Air” is that its actresses share the frame with George Clooney as equals, not props.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:04pm EST
  by By MANOHLA DARGIS

• Film: An Actor Nails the Cadence and the Charm

  In “Invictus,” Morgan Freeman conveys the manipulative charm, the serene confidence and the lonely regret of Nelson Mandela.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:34pm EST
  by By BILL KELLER

• ArtsBeat: Roman Polanski Is Transferred to Undisclosed Location

  The Swiss justice ministry said that Mr. Polanski was transferred for “security reasons and personal protection.”
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:48pm EST
  by By DAVE ITZKOFF

• ArtsBeat: Entertainment Industry Still Marketing Explicit Fare to Children, Federal Trade Commission Says

  The Federal Trade Commission completed a periodic review of entertainment industry marketing practices.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:47pm EST
  by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

• ArtsBeat: Judge Dismisses Plagiarism Suit Against Stephenie Meyer

  The ruling said that novels written by the plaintiff, Jordan Scott, and the author of the “Twilight” series were “not substantially similar as a matter of law.”
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:46pm EST
  by By MOTOKO RICH

• This Play Really Wants to Be a Movie

  The stage production of “Brief Encounter” is the mischievous child of David Lean and Noël Coward.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  by By BRUCE WEBER

• Tom Ford: Design Director

  Tom Ford’s departure from fashion to film raised eyebrows, but now he’s silencing his critics.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  by By LAURA M. HOLSON

• Film: He Wears a Revealing Sort of Restraint

  Colin Firth’s roundabout Englishness and Tom Ford’s forthright Americanness proved a happy marriage with “A Single Man.”
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:49am EST
  by By SARAH LYALL

• Arts, Briefly: Movie Shorts for Short Attention Spans

  Six studios have agreed to post clips from about 12,000 movies on a Web site, movieclips.com. The clips were chosen by several dozen film buffs as must-see moments.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:39am EST
  by By MICHAEL CIEPLY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

• Sundance Tries to Hone Its Artsy Edge

  On Wednesday, the festival’s programmers announced a schedule of competition films that reflect no particular current in independent cinema except one: the artier the better.
  
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:33am EST
  by By BROOKS BARNES

• Movie Review | 'Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun': In Old Clips, a Paradise Found and Lost

  The Austrian director Gustav Deutsch constructs “Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun” from a wealth of found footage borrowed from film archives from around the world.
  
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  by By MANOHLA DARGIS

• Movie Review | 'Before Tomorrow': Ancient Inuit Wisdom as Sustenance in Dire Times

  “Before Tomorrow” succumbs to ethnographic sentimentality in its idyllic depiction of a world threatened by evil.
  
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:45pm EST
  by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

• Carpetbagger: Pomp, Cursing and Hope at the Gothams

  The health of independent film was the go-to topic of the evening at the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
  
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:36am EST
  by By THE BAGGER

• Arts, Briefly: ‘Locker’ Takes Gotham

  “The Hurt Locker” took the top prize at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, where it was named best feature on Monday.
  
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:51am EST
  by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

• Arts, Briefly: ‘Pulp Fiction’ Writer Is Sent to Jail

  Was Roger Avary, a screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction,” moved from a prison work furlough program to a county jail in California because he was tweeting about his prison experience?
  
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:48am EST
  by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

• No Country for Old Typewriters: A Well-Used One Heads to Auction

  After five million or so words, Cormac McCarthy bids farewell to his portable Olivetti.
  
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:15am EST
  by By PATRICIA COHEN

• A Takeover Movie for Hollywood to Watch

  As the movie industry struggles to find its footing, the takeover of Universal Studios by Comcast may serve as a learning experience for everyone.
  
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

• ‘New Moon’ Leads at Box Office; ‘The Blind Side’ Surprises at No. 2

  “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” led at the movie box office for the second weekend in a row. But “The Blind Side” was close behind.
  
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

• Arts, Briefly: Polanski Will Not Be Released Before Monday

  A spokesman for Switzerland’s Justice Ministry said the director Roman Polanski would not be released from a prison near Zurich until at least Monday.
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:23am EST
  by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

• Dance: For Grace in Motion, Look to the Canvas

  If you love dance, Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary film “La Danse” isn’t the place to see why; the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition “Watteau, Music and Theater” is.
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:17am EST
  by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

• Film: Special Op: A Postwar Tale Retold

  With “Brothers,” Jim Sheridan adapts a Danish movie about collateral damage on the home front.
  
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:04pm EST
  by By JOHN ANDERSON

• Film: Working With Andy the Auteur

  The films Andy Warhol made with Ronald Tavel have begun to resurface, allowing new generations of filmgoers to claim them for their historical moment.
  
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:02pm EST
  by By MANOHLA DARGIS

• DVDs: Nutty Professor in Prime Time

  “The ‘Jerry Lewis Show’ Collection” offers more than five hours of excerpts from the variety show that Mr. Lewis starred in and co-produced for NBC.
  
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:25pm EST
  by By DAVE KEHR