An Education Articles

Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank A PROPHET Beats AVATAR Curiously, even though A Prophet was also in the running in the London Film Critics‘ Foreign Language Film of the Year category, it lost to Tomas Alfredson’s vampire drama Let the One Right In, which received a whole array of US critics’ awards early last year. (The film opened in the US in 2008.) [...]

Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart It’s hard to tell if the Academy Award nominations have done much for most of the nominated films. Several Oscar nominees had a minor box-office increase the day the nominations were announced and smaller ones on the following day or so, but with perhaps four or five exceptions — The Blind Side, A Single Man, An Education, Up [...]

Channing Tatum in Lasse Hallström’s Dear John (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in From Paris with Love (bottom) According to estimates provided by Box Office Mojo, Lasse Hallström’s romantic tearjerker Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, topped the domestic box-office this weekend, with $32.4 million in ticket sales. Avatar came at a distance second, with $23.6 million. James Cameron’s 3D [...]

Avatar (top) and The Hurt Locker (above, lower photo, with Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie) are the leaders at the 2010 Academy Awards. James Cameron’s sci-fi adventure and Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama received nine nominations apiece, including best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. Curiously, Cameron and Bigelow were married for a couple of years about two decades ago. The other best picture [...]