<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Rita Kempley on Movies</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/movies/ritakempley?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><description>Rita Kempley on Movies</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Story Beneath That Calm Vermeer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49841-2004Jan2.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49841-2004Jan2.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Girl With a Pearl Earring" -- the movie -- paints a relationship between the artist and his muse.]]></description><author> Laura Winters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visionary Elders With A Youthful Outlook]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44011-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44011-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Odetta, swathed in a Technicolor robe and funky head wrap, can make only regal entrances. Even though the grand dame of folk music moves a little slower today, the 72-year-old still sweeps into a room, and she knows how to work it, too.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knight Riders Saddle Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34641-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34641-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here we are backstage at Camelot: The smells of horses, hay and sweat hang in the air just beyond ye olde parking lot and a row of blue Port-a-Potties. Concessions to modernity must be made. So it is up to a traveling troupe of jousters to make audiences of the Maryland Renaissance Festival forget that there is a Quick Mart about a half-mile up the road in Anne Arundel County.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grin Before They Bear It]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36926-2003Aug8.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36926-2003Aug8.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the premiere of "A Star Is Unborn": See the placenta, the dark amniotic fluid, the precious cargo floating inside. See Junior blink, yawn, wave, suck his tiny toes.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Dirty Rats Here]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57496-2003Jun13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57496-2003Jun13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fans of the Gambian rat are concerned that the rodentlike marsupial is being unjustly maligned in the monkeypox scare.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too Too Divine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26850-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26850-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In movie circles, there is a figure known as a "magic Negro," a term that dates back to the late 1950s. Spike Lee, denounces the stereotype as the "super-duper magical Negro." <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Rita Kempley</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fangs for the Memories]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12934-2003May19.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12934-2003May19.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After seven seasons of staving off vampires, geeks and the occasional apocalypse, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is pulling up stakes and millions of fans are mourning its departure. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Rita Kempley</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadow Player]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27762-2003May7.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27762-2003May7.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John Malkovich's roles include herb gardener, wine connoisseur, fashion designer and raiser of bunnies. And, when the spotlight is reversed, the two-time Oscar nominee makes his influence felt behind the scenes. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"color="#666666"><B>- By Rita Kempley</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Levity': Down and Downer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35466-2003Apr24.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35466-2003Apr24.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ed Solomon, the comedy writer who launched the dumb dude-genre with "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," now wishes to be taken seriously as a filmmaker. To that end, he has foisted upon us "Levity," his ironically titled, overly earnest directorial debut.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['It Runs in the Family' Trips Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35458-2003Apr24.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35458-2003Apr24.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["It Runs in the Family," a schmaltzy domestic melodrama, stars the Douglas dynasty, a family that kind of grows on you. Well, at least, you learn to tolerate them much as you do your own dysfunctional family. (Is there any other kind?)]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Waste Much Time 'Chasing Papi']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34467-2003Apr15.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34467-2003Apr15.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three disparate Latinas tame the green-eyed monster in "Chasing Papi," a chica flick aimed specifically at Latino movie-lovers. As Hollywood has finally realized, Hispanics crave their own big fat movies.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['The Good Thief': Nolte's Sure Bet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5677-2003Apr10.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5677-2003Apr10.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[What is real, what is fake? Who is playing whom for a chump? You can never be quite sure in "The Good Thief," Academy Award winner Neil Jordan's clever, sexy, jazzy riff about a legendary gambler's big score.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tautou's 'He Loves Me': Roses and Thorns]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24348-2003Apr3.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24348-2003Apr3.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Audrey Tautou is the gamin's gamin -- fragile, puppyish and as buoyant as a soap bubble. She is absolutely scrumptious. That twee cupcake Shirley Temple is an old grumpypants by comparison. Or so we are meant to believe at the outset of "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not," a wickedly clever French psycho-thriller about romantic obsession.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Saving Grace of Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40020-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40020-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Germany's "Nowhere in Africa" offers glimpses of wildlife, mostly zebras, locusts and antelopes. But this consistently absorbing family saga is primarily a safari of the soul. The elegant adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's best-selling autobiography just added this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film to its lengthy list of kudos. And deservedly so.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand-Up Politics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40054-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40054-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though "Head of State" falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as fast or funny as Chris Rock's stand-up routines. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Rita Kempley</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Camping in 'The Core']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40019-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40019-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just when you thought Hollywood had hit rock bottom, along comes "The Core." This sloppily made, poky, extra cheesy adventure is virtually a remake of "Armageddon." Only this time the threat is not an asteroid but a disruption in the Earth's magnetic field. And this time the intrepid types must go underground to explode their nukes if they are to save the world.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Bend It Like Beckham': Just Kick Back and Enjoy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39924-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39924-2003Mar27.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You seldom leave a theater walking on air, much less float all through a movie. But the joyous "Bend It Like Beckham" never lets you down. Although there's more bounce than heft here, perhaps that's to be expected for a coming-of-age comedy about an Anglo Indian soccer prodigy.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Boat Trip': Exciting and New, It Ain't]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1278-2003Mar20.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1278-2003Mar20.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cuba Gooding Jr. and Horatio Sanz play fish out of water in "Boat Trip," a smutty, imbecilic farce about hapless heteros who mistakenly book a gay cruise. The trouble with fish out of water, as the stars demonstrate, is that they soon begin to stink.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Piglet's Big Movie':  See It With Your Hunny]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1354-2003Mar20.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1354-2003Mar20.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Piglet's Big Movie" is undoubtedly the finest film ever made about six mentally challenged stuffed animals. Sure it's slight, but also as cute as the curly tail on its tender protagonist.]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Stalk on the Wild Side]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23378-2003Mar13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23378-2003Mar13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/ritakempley</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 6:18:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bambi has a friend in "The Hunted's" Aaron Hallam. This renegade military assassin has it in for deer stalkers who dare enter his woods armed with high-powered rifles and military telescopes. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Rita Kempley</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rita Kempley</author></item></channel></rss>
