The English Patient Articles

Mike Leigh will chair the jury of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. Among the 68-year-old filmmaker's best known efforts are the Oscar-nominated Secret and Lies, New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winner Topsy-Turvy, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year, and Happy-Go-Lucky. "Over the course of his nearly 40-year film career, Mike Leigh has distinguished himself as one of the most outstanding film-makers of auteur cinema [...]

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Academy Awards: Part I Now, I believe that the Academy committed a major injustice when they gave Juliette Binoche the Best Supporting Actress Oscar that year. Let's ignore the fact that Lauren Bacall had been around for more than five decades, had never been nominated for an Oscar before, and [...]

Lauren Bacall (top); Bacall, Mimi Rogers in Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces (bottom) In her 2005 autobiography By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall's updated version of her 1978 bestseller By Myself, the two-time Tony Award-winning actress (for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981) candidly discusses the ballyhoo surrounding her first — and to date only — Academy Award [...]