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DVDs: 'Street Kings' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:21:00 GMT

109 minutes. Rated R."Street Kings," based on a short story by James Ellroy, has fire and firepower, but tries to shortcut its way to its violent end. Keanu Reeves is Detective Tom Ludlow, a bulldog of a man used as an enforcer by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). If director David Ayer had taken time to develop his characters as Curtis Hanson did in 1997's "L.A. Confidential," "Street...

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L.A. Confidential (1997) (Captain Obvious)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:32:00 GMT

1997 Best Picture Nominees Revisited: Part 4 of 5 A popular comparison, in 1997 and today, links Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential and film noir (or neo-noir, or retro-noir, depending on who you read). Given the film’s plot and characters and mood, this association seems perfectly reasonable. L.A. Confidential exists in a Los Angeles populated by corrupt politicians, amoral cops, tabloid...

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Oscars Name New Board of Governors (Rotten Tomatoes)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:55:00 GMT

Governors who were not up for reelection and who continue on the board are Ed Begley, Jr. and Henry Winkler, actors branch; Rosemary Brandenburg and Jeannine Oppewall, art directors; Caleb Deschanel and Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographers; Curtis Hanson and Paul Mazursky, directors; Rob Epstein and Richard Pearce, documentary; Jim Gianopulos and Tom Sherak, executives; Dede Allen and Mark...

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Oscars unveil changes to board of governors (LA Times)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:14:17 GMT

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L.A. Confidential Two-Disc Special Edition (Business Wire)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, The Usual Suspects), Russell Crowe, (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind), Guy Pearce (Memento, Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Kim Basinger (Batman, I Dreamed of Africa) and Danny DeVito (Batman Returns, Erin Brockovich) star in L.A. Confidential which was directed by Curtis Hanson and based on James Ellroy’s “L.A. Quartet” series of novels. Nominated for seven...

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Collaborators on working with Beatty (Variety.com)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:28:23 GMT

Collaborators on working with BeattyFaye Dunaway in 'Bonnie and Clyde'Faye DunawayDirector Curtis Hanson, then a photographer and journalist, snapped photos of Faye Dunaway on the set of "The Happening" (1967). Hanson later received a call from Beatty and director Arthur Penn following Dunaway's audition for "Bonnie and Clyde" asking for the photos, which helped her land the part....

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Why J.C. Tran Has Spectacular Breasts and Explaining Some Other Nicknames (Wicked Chops Poker)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:45:20 GMT

... back to the 2006 WSOP . A media event was held the day before the Main Event started featuring Curtis Hanson and Drew Berrymore (pimping the worst poker movie ever , Lucky You ), and the previous year's WSOP winner, Joe Hachem. A so-called "media" member in the audience asked Hachem a question about qualifying for the Main Event online through Poker Stars. Hachem didn't hesitate to...

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Review: Smart People (The Guardian)

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:07:02 GMT

Smart People (94 mins, 15) Directed by Noam Murro; starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton HolmesRecently, there have been several sharp and accurate pictures involving writers. I think especially of Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale. To these can be added Noam Monro's Smart People. Dennis Quaid is excellent...

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Waiting To Do Something (Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur)

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:08:00 GMT

One night a number of years ago I was waiting to cross the street over to my building when I noticed Curtis Hanson walking by with a woman. As they passed, he was pointing over at my building and saying something. Since then, I’ve always wondered what the director of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL happened to know about where I live. If I ever actually got to meet him maybe that would be a pretty...

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Kanye West, John Lasseter, Curtis Hanson [To Do] (Defamer)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:12:21 GMT

· Kanye West brings his Glow In The Dark Tour to the , You, Me & Iowa will be at the (with Radars to the Sky!) and indie wuss Jonathan Rice will be performing at · Animation pro and Academy Award winner John Lasseter (of Pixar fame) screens and discusses Dumbo with Curtis Hanson as part of the UCLA Archive’s “The Movie That Inspired Me” series at the . []· Marya Hornbacher discusses and...

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The Movie That Inspired John Lasseter, In Person (Frederator Studios)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:17:27 GMT

This coming Monday night you can see, in person, Curtis Hanson introduce John Lasseter introduce the movie that inspired him as part of The Movie That Inspired Me , a film series at UCLA. If you know anything about Lasseter, you can guess what the film is. That’s right. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians . But seriously, though. It’s Dumbo . Lasseter, most famous for winning last year’s...

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"Street Kings": An absurd police thriller (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:02:14 GMT

... a hole through the page.He's a demon dog, all right, with a bite as sharp as his bark.Other than Curtis Hanson's 1997 elegant page-to-screen translation of Ellroy's novel "L.A. Confidential," the movies have generally failed to capture the true tone and texture of his dark places.Certainly that is the case with David Ayer's absurd if accidentally entertaining potboiler, "Street Kings,"...

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'Street Kings' (LA Times)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:59:36 GMT

Police brutality goes down more easily when the cops look sharp. POLICE brutality goes down more easily when the cops look sharp and the past provides a measure of storytelling distance, as was the case in director Curtis Hanson's adaptation of the James Ellroy crime novel "L.A. Confidential." Take away the early 1950s lapels and the Brilliantine hair, however, and an audience has a very...

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'Street Kings' a 'shrill, brutal bash' (Chicago Tribune)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:01:12 GMT

Rating: 2 stars (fair) Police brutality goes down more easily when the cops look sharp and the past provides a measure of storytelling distance, as was the case in director Curtis Hanson's adaptation of the James Ellroy crime novel "L.A. Confidential." Take away the early 1950s lapels and the Brilliantine hair, however, and an audience has a very different relationship to the viciousness...

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Here's the deal: '21' is escapist fun (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:40:49 GMT

... cuts, whirling camerawork, and some snazzy CGI, Luketic manages to do something that directors Curtis Hanson and Martin Campbell could not in their respective gambling pics (Lucky You, Casino Royale). That is, make the card-table sequences exciting.Sturgess, the English actor from Across the Universe, plays the affable Yank with easy charm, and as Ben gets sucked into the fast, and...

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24 March Fortune Teller says (composite drawlings)

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:01:42 GMT

... , Klaus Dinger , Nick Lowe , Dougie Thomson , Gabriele "Nena" Kerner , Sharon Corr , Chad Butler , Curtis Hanson , Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle , Gene Nelson , Murray Hamilton , Norman Fell , Steve McQueen , William Smith , R. Lee Ermey , Louie Anderson , Robert Carradine , Donna Pescow , Kelly LeBrock , Annabella Sciorra , Lara Flynn Boyle , Alyson Hannigan , Keisha Castle-Hughes , George...

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The Movie That Inspired John Lasseter (Cartoon Brew)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:05:18 GMT

... program of animated shorts for the evening. The archive’s Honorary Chairman and series curator Curtis Hanson will host the program, which will start at 7:30pm in the Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. at Westwood Blvd. (in the courtyard level of the Hammer Museum). Advance tickets are available for $10 at www.cinema.ucla.edu . Tickets are also available at the Billy Wilder...

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SHORTS COLUMN | Oscar-Nominated Short Film Directors Bask in the Spotlight at Sold-Out Academy Screening (Movies)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:26:55 GMT

by Kim Adelman (February 20, 2008) On Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Curtis Hanson hosted the Academy's pre-ceremony screening of the nominated live action and animated short films. With directors and producers of eight of the ten films in attendance, the sold-out event was a rare opportunity for the filmmakers to see each other's work and...

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Great Movies About Writers [The Writing Life] (Gawker)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:30:19 GMT

ran a feature today showing , in honor of the WGA strike ending. It's a pretty good sampling we think, and have decided to go one step further and dredge up some clips. We were able to find 12 of the 14 films listed, so we've included two bonuses: a clip from Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, and a touching video of aspiring poet Vada Sultenfuss reciting a sad poem in the groundbreaking 1991...

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Rough Guide Review (Conversational Reading)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:11:00 GMT

... is CNN.com film critic Tom Charity. If an entry is deft or insightful -- such as the essays on Curtis Hanson, David Lean or Howard Hawks -- chances are that there will be a tiny "TC" at the end of it. Charity's entry for Hanson is typically nimble: "To get his membership of the Directors Guild of America in the mid-1980s, Curtis Hanson needed the endorsement of...

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