Sleeping Beauty Articles

Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Sleeping Beauty Nicolas Winding Refn's thriller Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Albert Brooks, was the Sydney Film Critics' choice for Best Film of 2011. In the United States, Drive was the top pick of the Utah Film Critics; elsewhere, most US critics groups have gone for either Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist or Alexander Payne's The Descendants. A 2010 release [...]

Emily Browning, Sleeping Beauty Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty divided critics at the Cannes Film Festival — while reminding some of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Presented by Jane Campion, Sleeping Beauty is the story of a young woman (Sucker Punch's and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' Emily Browning) whose sex-escort job entails taking drugs, passing out, and having wealthy older men do "things" [...]

Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (top); Naomi Kawase's Hanazu no tsuki (bottom) As usual, the Cannes Film Festival's Official Competition film line-up is overwhelmingly centered on European (co)productions: British, French, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, Danish. The five "outsiders" hail from Israel, Australia, the United States, and Japan. In other words, barring one American entry, the Americas were completely ignored this year, and [...]

Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington in James Cameron's Avatar AVATAR Box Office: #14 Inflation-Adjusted Chart Avatar, currently at #14 on Box Office Mojo’s inflation-adjusted chart, would fall behind nearly 20 more movies if 3D/IMAX surcharges are factored into its box-office grosses. As I've explained before, Box Office Mojo's inflation-adjusted chart is supposed to better reflect the number of tickets a movie has sold. In Avatar's case, [...]