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...because he thinks his 16-year-old niece's generation has dismissed the movie musical genre as uncool. "It's a shame people are missing out," Carney says. He's onto something - Once won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and it has tough-to-charm critics swooning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Modern Movie Musical Sing? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...most of the stories spring to movie life. Jeremy's devotion to Elizabeth is more an idea than a felt emotion, though Law pours all his considerable charm into the effort. Strathairn and Weisz have some potent moments in a set piece of domestic regret, but each has to push harder than should be necessary to achieve the rueful feelings. It's not until Portman shows up that you'll find the sort of sizzle and sympathy Wong cooks up with ease in his best films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Skies and Blueberry Nights | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...pair of young people, one of whom is blind, yet is also a brave and wily navigator of the sighted world. There's even a piece by Sylvain Chomet, about a mime - yes, I know, but set your prejudices aside - finding true love that has a sort of wayward charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exquisite Films of Paris | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...Lamont with a gilded alternative: Widener, the venerable elder statesman of Harvard’s many libraries and an ideal location for scholarship of all sorts. Of course, its size inhibits it from keeping its neighbor’s bordello hours, but that’s part of the charm. Would you rather read in an elegant memorial to the Titanic or in a concrete Crock-Pot named for a man who called Benito Mussolini “a very upstanding chap...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Lachrymose at Lamont | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

Call it the Davos of nose, the olfactory Olympics, the Sundance of Scent. On June 5, representatives of more than 50 top fragrance-and-flavor companies will converge at the World Perfumery Congress in Cannes, France, to charm potential customers and herald their latest innovations. Gilles Andrier, CEO of Givaudan, the industry leader, will speak on "The Noses of Tomorrow." The latest robotic smell mixers will be on display. International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), Givaudan's closest rival, will fly in most of its 96 top scent developers separately to the June congress; their noses are so precious that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smell of Competition | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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