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Hollywood on HollywoodJanuary 2020 Narrator: When you come to the end of the line, with a buddy who is more than a brother and a little less than a wife, getting blind drunk together is really the only way to say farewell. -- Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood (2019) Hollywood has often turned inward to explore the realities and the fiction behind what we see on screen. Mix big talents, big egos, and big box office with competition, dreams of stardom and unleashed creativity and it becomes a treasure trove of comedy, melodrama, satire and pathos to explore.
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Golden Globe Awards January 5, 2020 Producers Guild of America Awards January 18, 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards January 19, 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards January 25, 2020
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Once upon a time in. . . Hollywood / In 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. And Rick has a famous next-door neighbor...Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). Rated R. Another well-crafted, twisty feature from two-time Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino.
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The worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys (Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith) and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance, and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Rated PG.
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Tropic thunderWatch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback (Nick Nolte) as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman (Ben Stiller), Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr), Chino and Portnoy. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes awry and filming is a month behind schedule only five days into shooting, the real 'Four Leaf' suggests that he drop the actors in a real jungle and use hidden cameras to capture the action. Chaos and insanity ensue. Rated R.
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With the help of Jiff Ramsey (Eddie Murphy), brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful and most desperate movie director Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) stops at nothing to get the star into his latest low-budget film. Rated PG-13. An ode to making art, no matter how ridiculous.
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Inside Daisy CloverDepression-Era movie moguls and an adoring public can't hear or see enough of the tomboyish movie star, 15-year-old Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood). But there's a catch: they insist Daisy always be the girl on the screen instead of herself, which only shows they don't know Daisy, who's determined to be heard in her own right. Not rated.
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Pain And GloryThis master work by acclaimed director Pedro Almodovar tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60's, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80's, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Spanish language. Rated R. Short-listed for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Stunt manA mysterious fugitive (Steve Railsback) escapes from the law and ends up on a movie set becoming a stunt man under a mesmerizing, possibly insane movie director (Peter O'Toole). An intriguing blend of real danger with the fantasy of movie-making. Rated R.
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Hail, Caesar! /An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer (Josh Brolin) who is presented with plenty of problems to tackle, including the kidnapping of a famous actor (George Clooney). Rated PG-13. The third of Clooney's self-described "Dunce Trilogy" of films with writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The other two films are Burn After Reading and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Battle over Citizen KaneThis documentary, produced for PBS' "American Experience," chronicles the struggles between filmmaker Orson Welles and newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst over the making and release of Citizen Kane, whose protagonist Charles Foster Kane was allegedly a barely fictionalized portrayal of Hearst. Interviews with contemporaries of Hearst and Welles reveal the intense campaign to suppress the film and ultimately ruin the career of its director. Not rated.
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Director Christopher Guest's lampoon of the Hollywood awards season. An indie movie is in production called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still being made, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. Laugh at how the Oscar buzz affects the director, additional cast members, writers, an agent, a publicist, and the hosts from an Hollywood entertainment-type television program. Rated PG-13.
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