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Huppert the strict taskmistress.

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In the realm of the senses

Musician seeks lower form of expression.

Lena Endre and Krister Henriksson break her marital vows.

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Personas

Infidelity restaged through different roles.

DiCaprio as Hughes on the set of Hell's Angels.

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The Sky’s the Limit

In his best film since GoodFellas, Scorsese picks a tragic hero who couldn't master his life on the…

Mark Ruffalo (left) learns a few lessons from Rory Culkin.

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Prodigal son

Wanderer returns, upsetting family balance.

Compston makes Liam sweet, but no angel.

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Sweet Sixteen: The Good Son

The best intentions gang aft agley in a heart-wrenching Scottish drama. (Don't worry: It's got subtitles.)

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Vanity Fair Director Mira Nair

Resplendent in a peacock-purple color right out of Vanity Fair, director Mira Nair visited Seattle recently to suggest…

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Chris Terrio

The director of Heights.

Close (left) and Banks form an art-world Manhattan Pietà.

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Pictures and Stories

Manhattan's privileged frog pond is rocked and connected by the same cultural ripples.

Evans laughing it up with Ali MacGraw and Henry Kissinger.

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Song of Myself

Once-tarnished Hollywood raconteur burnishes his own irresistible myth.

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Not the right ZIP code

A lopsided view of girlhood in LA on the other side of 90210.

Ferrera shows her inner and outer beauty.

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One Size Fits All

Self-acceptance has sweetly satisfying, if familiar, ring.

Ryan takes it off in Cut.

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TIFF Picks for SIFF

With SIFF director Darryl Macdonald gone, SW critic ventures some suggestions for next year's festival programming . .…

Hoffman in Capote: sure to get an Oscar nom?

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Northern Highlights

2005 suddenly looks brighter for fall movies, according to our intrepid explorer over the border.

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Luck o’ the Irish

Hype aside, 'The Full Monty' this ain't.

From left, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's "baby ballerinas" Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova and Irina Baronova, circa 1934.

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Last Steps

Dance documentary movingly captures ballet greats before their final curtain.

Alessio Boni (pictured with Maya Sansa) plays enigmatic son Matteo.

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The Grand Canvas

Three decades in the life of an extended Italian family turn out to be six hours very well…

Cassavetes on Cassavetes

Arts & Culture

Cassavetes on Cassavetes

John Cassavetes speaks once again.

Unlikely shipmates Spacey and Moore.

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Anchors aweigh

Unmoored hero finds safe harbor.

Béart (left) consoles Fabian.

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Home for the holidays

Three sisters untangle secrets by the family hearth.

Think again: Parker scrutinizes the husband (Tim Guinee) who'll never leave her.

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Personal Verbosity

Slumming actresses soar but are out-talked by the narrator.