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February 25,2017
by Associated Press
For “La La Land” composer and songwriter Justin Hurwitz, it’s been a long, laborious ride from dreaming up the musical with his old college roommate Damien Chazelle over six years ago to becoming the toast of awards season.
His catchy score and songs have broken through, too, securing their own place in the spotlight and overshadowing the likes of Justin Timberlake and Lin Manuel-Miranda ....
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February 25,2017
by Associated Press
Movie fans, rejoice! You can — for a price — watch about two-thirds of the Oscar-nominated flicks from your couch.
Here’s your viewing guide:
BEST PICTURE (AND DIRECTING)
None of the nine best picture nominees is available through a subscription service.
You can rent “Arrival” and “Hell or High Water” through Amazon, Google Play or Apple’s iTunes.
You’ll have to buy do....
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February 24,2017
by Louis Weisberg
Ninety independent movie theaters nationwide are screening 1984 on April 4 to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarian approach to government.
So far, none of the theaters in Wisconsin has announced participation in the project.
The movie 1984 is based on the classic novel of the same name by George Orwell. The setting is a dystopian future in which the government manufactures facts, revises ....
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February 23,2017
by Louis Weisberg
Many successful actors got their start at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and one of the best known among them is lending her voice to the United Performing Arts Fund’s 50th anniversary campaign.
Erika Slezak is most famous for her role as Victoria Lord on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live, a role for which she earned a record six daytime Emmy Awards for best actress. Slezak says her earl....
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February 17,2017
by Associated Press
From jungles to deserts to mountains, the BBC’s epic nature series “Planet Earth II” takes viewers around the world — and around many genres of television.
The fortitude of a penguin family tugs heartstrings like a love story. The snail’s-pace courtship of a three-toed sloth is soothing comfort TV. And a life-or-death contest between baby iguanas and writhing racer snakes is heart-in-....
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February 15,2017
by Associated Press
Looking for the most vibrant corner of the Oscars? Look no further than the docs. Nowhere else do you find such a variety of form, of perspective and of storytelling. While Hollywood has in recent years been busy turning into a superhero factory, the more diverse documentary world has been exploding with an unmatched richness of experimentation and creativity.
The stars might be in other cate....
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February 07,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
The second Milwaukee Women's Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for its second year.
The festival will happen Sept. 8 to 10 at the Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., beneath the Grand Avenue Mall in Milwaukee. The festival's goal is to showcase local and worldwide films that celebrate women in film. Male directors whose films feature at least one female lead are als....
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January 25,2017
by Associated Press
Emmy-winning actress Mary Tyler Moore, who brightened American television screens as the perky suburban housewife on The Dick Van Dyke Show and then as a fledgling feminist on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died on Wednesday at the age of 80.
Moore, who won seven Emmy Awards for her television work, died in the company of friends and her husband, Dr. S. Robert Levine, representative Mara Buxbaum s....
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January 23,2017
by Associated Press
Director Dee Rees wanted to get to the big questions in her enthralling period epic Mudbound. Specifically: What is it to be a citizen and what is it to fight for a country that doesn’t fight for you?
The film, which premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, had audiences raving and some already speculating about Oscar chances.
Based on Hillary Jordan’s 2008 novel Mudbound....
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January 11,2017
by Associated Press
David Lynch knows how to keep viewers guessing about what to expect from the “Twin Peaks” sequel.
In a Q&A with TV critics Monday, the genial Lynch either declined to provide details about the Showtime series or gave answers that were as mysterious as the plot of the 1990s cult series.
Cast members who took part in a separate panel discussion also were mum about the plot in advance o....
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