Tag: In Cold Blood
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Robert Blake, Emmy-Winning ‘Lost Highway’ Actor Who Beat Murder Charge, Dead at 89
Robert Blake, the Emmy-winning film and television star who participated in over half a century’s worth of Hollywood history, has died at the age of 89. The news was confirmed by the Associated Press.Born in New Jersey in 1933, Blake began working in film as a child actor in the late 1930s. His first onscreen…
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The Daily Stream: In Capote, The Late, Great Philip Seymour Hoffman Gives New Meaning To The Phrase ‘In Cold Blood’
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “Capote“Where You Can Stream It: AMC+The Pitch: “Capote” is not a biopic in the traditional sense. Instead, it focuses on the six-year period in which the…
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‘The Lost Sons’ Review: A Documentary Mystery About a Kidnapped Baby…and the Haunted Adult He (Maybe) Grows Up to Be
The documentary as true-life suspense mystery came to the fore, and might have been invented, by Errol Morris, when he released “The Thin Blue Line” in 1988. It was the rare nonfiction film that had a demonstrable real-world impact. Beyond that, the movie forged a uniquely gripping experience by presenting itself as a kind of…
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Quincy review – portrait of a musical legend fails to sing
Rashida Jones’s sanitised bio-documentary about her father, the musician and producer Quincy Jones, fails to exploit her access to her subjectHas any person made as indelible an imprint on African American culture as Quincy Jones? This new bio-documentary makes a compelling case for the point, though that’s the only compelling aspect of this paint-by-numbers film.Directors…