Agnès Varda Articles

Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze's Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak and Agnès Varda's Les plages d'Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès (above) will be screened as the next installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 29th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 3, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all [...]

2010 Oscar Predictions Best Documentary Feature The Beaches of Agnes, Agnès Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris) The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society) Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, directors (Kovno [...]

Cinema Guild will bring Agnès Varda's Les plages d'Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès back to Los Angeles for an open-ended return engagement on Saturday, December 26, and Sunday, December 27, at 11 am at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood and Playhouse 7 in Pasadena. Named the Best Documentary of 2009 (tied with Louie Psihoyos' The Cove) by the Los Angeles Film Critics, [...]

As I had predicted, Nine, The Lovely Bones, Avatar, and The Blind Side didn't get much recognition from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which announced their winners earlier today. Talent from those films was probably mentioned during the voting, but only Avatar got listed in the final results: it was the runner-up (Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg) in the best production design category, after [...]