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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Film industry professionals feel similarly. Patrick Jerome, Director of the Boston International Film Festival, reported that many film festivals—like CineVegas and the Hollywood Black Film Festival—have been cancelled this year. “Film festivals depend on a good economy to survive,” Jerome said...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind and Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Scenic Route | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...those who read to them, however, Percy's appeal may not extend beyond that group. The weekend before the movie's opening, about 600 fans turned up for an event in Atlanta, far fewer than your average Potter or Twilight draw. Then again, the franchise passes at least one Hollywood test: two of the film's stars, Pierce Brosnan and Kevin McKidd, signed on because their kids love the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Percy Jackson | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...packet of cookies a day, splitting them between lunch and dinner. I also drank a lot of water, some coffee and a glass of fruit juice daily. (And, yes, I did note the irony that hundreds of thousands of quake survivors were going on the Haitian version of the Hollywood Cookie Diet, which has helped various celebrities fit into their skinny jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disaster Diet | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...drawn to pictures about hunted, holed-up men, he could hardly avoid the connection between iconography and autobiography, for his life is at least as notorious as his films. As a child, with his Jewish parents in concentration camps, he survived the Nazis by hiding and running. In Hollywood, his blond starlet wife Sharon Tate was slaughtered by Charles Manson's own Satanic gang. Then, after his great success with the knotty, despairing Chinatown (still his best film), there was his 1977 sexual encounter with a 13-year-old; when he thought he was sure to serve a long jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...difference between Hollywood and European films: the first has to keep you jazzed every minute, while the second assumes that, having bought your ticket, you'll stick around through the simmering accumulation of details. In that sense, The Ghost Writer is as comforting in its temperate pace and eerie mood as it is chilling in its plot particulars. Polanski feigns interest in the genre's requisite chases, but he's best at stranding the Ghost in wide frame, on a turbulent island, and tightening the noose around his neck as he gets closer to an awful truth. Alexandre Desplat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

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