Movie Review | 'Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi'

Interpreter’s Fate in a Broken Afghanistan

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

“Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi” is as unsettling and complex as the country it traverses.

Movie Review | 'Alice in Wonderland'

What’s a Nice Girl Doing in This Hole?

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” is busy, garish and periodically amusing.

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Film Review at Heart of Suit Against Variety

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

The complaint accuses Variety of contractual breach, negligence and unfair business practices in connection with the film, “Iron Cross.”

Florida Ponders Tax as Tool to Aid Family-Values Films

By DAMIEN CAVE

Some fear a proposed change to a film incentive program would discriminate against productions with gay characters.

MGM Said to Be Considering a Prepackaged Bankruptcy

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

In such a move, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would be taken over by its creditors in exchange for debt forgiveness, people briefed on the matter said.

Charles B. Pierce, Director of ‘Boggy Creek,’ Dies at 71

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘The Hurt Locker’ Wins Big at Oscars

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES

The Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” took home the Oscar for best picture, while its director, Kathryn Bigelow, became the first woman to win an Oscar for best director.

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Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.

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Variety Lays Off Two Critics in an Overhaul

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

The show business trade paper said “economic reality” dictated jobs cuts, eight in total.

‘Avatar’ Plagiarism Suit Dismissed in China

Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

James Cameron won’t have to share his “Avatar” profits with a Chinese writer who said the movie plagiarized his work.

NYC

Hurt Capital of New York Wins No Oscar

By CLYDE HABERMAN

The troubles of New York State government recall some of the Oscar-nominated films, like “Up in the Air” or “Inglourious Basterds.”

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Old Jokes Home: The Oscars Gags That Wouldn't Die

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Can you tell which of these jokes came from Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin's Oscars patter, and which came from Paul Lynde's performance at a 1976 Dean Martin roast?

Designed by Whom? Often It Was a Guess

By RUTH LA FERLA

You can count on the Oscars for a night of epic glamour meant to pump adrenaline into viewers’ veins.

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With 'The Cove' Victorious at Oscars, Japanese Village Defends Itself

By DAVE ITZKOFF

"The Cove" documents dolphin hunts in the village of Taiji, where about 2,000 such animals are killed for their meat each year.

The TV Watch

Supersizing the Show (Austerity Is So 2009)

By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony was one enormous Hollywood stimulus package.

Huge Film, Small Film: Big Stakes

By A. O. SCOTT

Very soon now, whatever suspense remains in this Oscar season will be over. Bullock or Streep? “Avatar” or “Hurt Locker”? All will be revealed. Will you be watching?

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‘Alice’ Grabs Imax Screens From ‘Avatar’

By BROOKS BARNES

The hunger for 3-D pictures, a blockbuster publicity campaign and curiosity about a performance by Johnny Depp pushed “Alice in Wonderland” to No. 1 at the weekend box office.

Oscar Night Suspense, Then Poof! Cable’s Back

By N. R. KLEINFIELD

Cablevision customers in the New York area faced the prospect of Oscar night without Channel 7, the Oscar channel, because of a contract dispute.

Wedding Plan: Jump a Broom or Eat Goat?

By MEGAN ANGELO

In “Our Family Wedding,” ethnic traditions add a fresh approach to the traditions of a movie genre.

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Bollywood Soars Toward Hollywood

By ANUPAMA CHOPRA

The films of Bollywood are gaining more momentum, and interest, in the United States.

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DVDs

Amiable Tramp Drifting Through Postwar Japan

By DAVE KEHR

The Japanese actor Kiyoshi Atsumi played the character Tora-san in 48 films. Four of those films are arriving on DVD.