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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals. Among them are Curzio Malaparte’s The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg’s Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa’s To Live, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Michael Cimino’s The Deer [...]

The Host by Bong Joon-Ho The nominees for the 1st Asian Film Awards were unveiled on Jan. 29. The awards ceremony, to be held on March 20, will open the 31st Hong Kong Film Festival. According to the Asian Film Academy’s mission statement, the awards were created to "to acknowledge the finest of Asian Cinema, and bestow honor in various categories to film artists from [...]

The San Diego Film Critics Society tends to go its own way when it comes to year-end film awards. For instance, last year most critics’ groups chose Brokeback Mountain as the best film of 2005. The San Diego Film Critics, for their part, opted for King Kong. Hardly a superior choice, but different nonetheless. Other more esoteric picks include Almost Famous as the best film [...]

Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Jim Carrey in Brad Silberling’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (top); Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (bottom) FEATURE FILMS Best Production Design – Period or Fantasy – Feature Film The Aviator – Dante Ferretti Finding Neverland – Gemma Jackson The Incredibles – Lou Romano * Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Rick Heinrichs [...]