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NYT: Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82

Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82. Michael Kimmelman herereports.

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April 25, 2008

BBC: Madonna launches Malawi Aids film

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On the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival, Madonna told reporters how "I Am Because We Are" contains a message of obligation. Tom Brook reports.

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April 24, 2008

Reuters: Madonna shines light on Malawi with documentary

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A single phone call prompted Madonna to begin charity work in Malawi and it was while making a documentary on the African country's 1 million orphans that she found a baby she decided to adopt. Michelle Nichols reports.

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Reuters: Spike Lee teams with Nokia on cell phone movie

Filmmaker Spike Lee has linked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with cell phone footage from everyday people in what he calls the democratization of film. Reuters reports.

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April 22, 2008

E Online: Roger Ebert Previews Film Fest from Hospital Bed

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, who has been absent from "Ebert & Roeper" for the better part of a year while undergoing cancer treatment, had been squeezing in some extra physical therapy at the Pritikin Center to prepare for his upcoming annual film fest April 23-27 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Natalie Finn reports.

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April 18, 2008

AP: Ethan Coen, the quiet man, has an off-Broadway play

Ethan Coen's "Almost an Evening," three one-act plays, has opened at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street to warm reviews -- which might seem like tepid grits after winning Academy Awards for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay (all with Joel, of course) for "No Country for Old Men." Douglas J. Rowe reports.

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April 17, 2008

NYT: Roger Ebert, the Critic Behind the Thumb

On April 1 Roger Ebert published a letter to readers of The Chicago Sun-Times that was essentially a farewell to the long-running, widely syndicated weekly program that has made him not simply the best-known movie reviewer in America, but the virtual embodiment of this curious profession. A.O. Scott reports.

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April 16, 2008

SF360: Dawn Logsdon, on new hope in an old neighborhood, "Faubourg Treme"

One giant storm and the government malfeasance that followed transformed New Orleans into a metanym, but directors Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie dig through the rubble of the horrific disaster to find a deeper, richer history of one particular New Orleans neighborhood. Susan Gerhard reports.

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April 10, 2008

LAT: Al Gore is back with global warming slide show 2.0

The folks at TED have posted a new video of Al Gore debuting his latest climate-change slide show, updated from the one he toured with in 2006's "An Inconvenient Truth."

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April 7, 2008

Reuters: Oscar-winning Bosnia director enters politics

Bosnia's Oscar-winning film director Danis Tanovic launched a new political party on Saturday in a bid to rise above the ethnic divisions that beset the nation. Maja Zuvela reports.

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March 31, 2008

Guardian Interview: Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke's shot-for-shot remake of his own torture thriller sets out to critique US film violence. But hasn't he just become everything he hates? Stuart Jeffriesreports.

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March 28, 2008

SF360: Why skaters heart Spike

Most of the kids you see tooling around the streets on skateboards these days don’t know this, but there was once a time when spotting a professional skateboarder in a movie or on television was about as likely as finding a hundred bucks on the ground...Thank god for Spike Jonze, the patron saint of real skateboarders and the only real "skate director" out there. Justin Juul reports.

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March 27, 2008

HR: New York subway worker in Hollywood's fast lane

A New York City tollbooth worker in desperate need of a car wrote a crime thriller script titled "Brooklyn's Finest" last year. Now he finds himself rubbing shoulders with some of Hollywood's finest... Borys Kit reports.

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March 19, 2008

AFP: Tributes pour in for Oscar-winning filmmaker Minghella

Tributes poured in Wednesday for Anthony Minghella, the British filmmaker best known for the Oscar-winning 1996 film "The English Patient," who died at the age of 54. The writer and director, whose other box office hits include "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain," was best known for beautifully shot, lyrical adaptations of literary novels starring big names such as Jude Law. AFP reports.

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March 18, 2008

BBC: Anthony Minghella Dies At 54

The BBC is reporting that Academy Award winning director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54. Beginning his career as a writer of radio plays, Minghella went on to become the chairman of the British Film Institute and director of such films as "The English Patient" and "Cold Mountain." No cause of death has been revealed.

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March 12, 2008

Guardian Interview: Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine wrote his first movie script at 19, and was directing by 23. Then he found his way on to drugs. Now 35, he's clean and making beguiling, beautiful films, writes Charlotte O'Sullivan.

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HR: Ebertfest spotlights critic's favorites

Movie critic Roger Ebert, who has been laid low for the past few years by thyroid cancer that has robbed him of his voice, will make a rare public appearance next month at the Illinois film festival that bears his name. The 10th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, a.k.a. Ebertfest, will take place April 23-27 in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Hollywood Reporter reports.

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February 28, 2008

LAT: Inside George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch

The uninvited have been coming to Skywalker Ranch for decades, all drawn by the Force, however they choose to define it. Some don camouflage parkas and hike over the leafy Marin County ridgelines, while others drive right up to the front gate and try to con their way in, as if you could enter Valhalla on the grift. Geoff Boucher reports.

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February 25, 2008

AP: Elton John is the belle of Oscar parties

With Vanity Fair sitting out this year's celebrations, the belle of the Oscars parties was a piano playing Elton John. Solvej Schou reports.

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February 20, 2008

AFP: Host Jon Stewart ready to provide Oscars laughs

Television comedian Jon Stewart will be injecting some stinging satire into the Oscars here Sunday, giving a political flavor to the Hollywood extravaganza in a presidential election year. Tangi Quemener reports.

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