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REVIEW: Wim Wenders’ 3-D Pina Makes Its Own Joyful Dance

Now that everyone has grown tired of touting the allegedly thrilling promise of 3-D, we may have some chance of figuring out exactly what its future might be. While I still think 3-D is almost less than a gimmick, I’ve come to think that its real promise lies not in big-budget filmmaking along the lines of The Adventures of Tintin or even a picture as wonderful as Hugo , but in the hands of directors working on a more modest scale who simply have a good idea and a spark of enthusiasm for the medium. Wim Wenders has brought that spark to a rather unlikely subject, the late German modern-dance choreographer Pina Bausch. For years, Wenders and Bausch, longtime friends, had been working on a movie together. Bausch died suddenly in 2009, at age 68, and Pina is Wenders’ tribute to her, less a strict documentary than a heartfelt — and visually gorgeous — celebration of Bausch’s work and her mode of working.

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REVIEW: Wim Wenders’ 3-D Pina Makes Its Own Joyful Dance

Christopher Plummer on Dragon Tattoo, Beginners Luck and Laughing Off Oscar

One week removed from his 82nd birthday, Christopher Plummer is winding up what one could arguably call a career year. And it’s been a long career — more than half a century’s worth of stage and screen roles comprising such milestones as The Sound of Music , The Man Who Would Be King , The Insider and The Last Station , the latter of which earned the Canadian legend his first-ever Academy Award nomination. But as the curtain closes on a memorable 2011 — most notably his acclaimed stage adaptation Barrymore , his awards-worthy performance in Beginners and this week’s blockbuster hopeful The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — you’d be hard-pressed to find a time when Plummer wasn’t more beloved.

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Christopher Plummer on Dragon Tattoo, Beginners Luck and Laughing Off Oscar