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Edward Zwicks "The Last Samurai" is about two warriors whose cultures make them aliens, but whose values make them comrades. The battle scenes are stirring and elegantly mounted, but they are less about who wins than about what can be proven by dying. Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, its an uncommonly thoughtful epic. Its power is compromised only by an ending that sheepishly backs away from what the film is really about. Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe co-star, a...

Also: The Oscars are about three months away. I’m Glenn Whipp, awards columnist for the Los Angeles Times and host of the Envelope’s Friday newsletter. Welcome to this week’s edition, which I’m sending out to all the people with the hedges (and the hedge-less hordes too). Advertisement Leslie Odom Jr. passed on playing Sam Cooke in “One Night in Miami” the first time Regina King offered him the role. No disrespect, he thought, but a movie depicting an imagined conversation among fo...

It wasn’t that long ago when you could watch the Oscars, see what movie won the award for cinematography and think, “OK. That might be the best picture winner too.” In the ‘90s, the two awards went hand in hand six times. “Dances With Wolves,” “Schindler’s List,” “Braveheart,” “The English Patient,” “Titanic” and “American Beauty” all pulled off the feat. In the ensuing two decades, it has happened just twice — “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Birdman.” In...

A young Minnesota Native filmmakers Wild ride to Sundance After years of writing and dreaming, a Minnesota filmmaker will compete at the Sundance Film Festival this month.  January 15, 2021 — 4:34pm Text size Copy shortlink: Lynn Lukkas couldnt have predicted that the shy, 6-foot-5 student who took film classes from her years ago at the University of Minnesota would compete in this months Sundance Film Festival. But she knew there ...

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