Best remembered for playing the creepy Omni chairman in RoboCop, Dan O’Herlihy was a one-of-a-kind Best Actor Oscar nominee during the studio era.
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The Way He Looks movie: Gay teen love story about blind boy who falls in love with a school friend is Brazil entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Norma Bengell and John Herbert in As Cariocas. Norma Bengell: Iconic (and controversial) Brazilian film, stage & TV star made history as first actress seen naked (full frontal) in a…
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Antiviral (2012) movie review: Brandon Cronenberg’s debut feature is too emotionally detached for its own good. Caleb Landry Jones + Sarah Gadon star.
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European Film Awards: Michael Haneke Best Director record as 2 French cinema veterans win their 1st award + Annie Awards bypass blockbusters.
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Jorge Negrete: Mexican movie icon remembered in Los Angeles exhibition Jorge Negrete was one of Mexico’s biggest movie stars ever. Although the actor / singer died more than half a…
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Cosmopolis 2012 with Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson Cosmopolis movie: Highly unlikely further expansion Sept. 4 update: Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis had a solid debut at three U.S. theaters…
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Carlos Reichenbach: The Forbidden Paradise / O Paraíso Proibido. Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer perhaps best known for his sex comedies and dramas of the 1970s and early 1980s,…
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Limousine rider Juliette Binoche. Cosmopolis reviews Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is missing a scene found in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel: a 300-person orgy at a Manhattan intersection. But…
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Harvey Weinstein “entourage” apparently includes the current French president. The Legion d’Honneur Chevalier was nominated by none other than Nicolas Sarkozy, whose behind-the-scenes support for the powerhouse Hollywood producer and…
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José Padilha’s Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within is officially the biggest blockbuster ever at the Brazilian box office, surpassing Avatar.
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Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…
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Lula, The Son of Brazil: Mother Glória Pires and her seven children, including Felipe Falanga (yellow shirt) as the boy Lula Unanimity isn’t what it used to be. First, Quentin…
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Gay Argentina love story & sexually explicit ‘Taxi zum Klo’: Torino GLBT Film Festival Américo Ortiz de Zárate’s Otra historia de amor / Another Love Story (1986), Monika Treut’s My…
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Canada Quebec differences: Polytechnique (above, with Maxim Gaudette) vs. Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother. Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique, about a lone gunman’s 1989 massacre of 14 women at Montreal’s École…
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Two of the most widely acclaimed non-English language films released in 2009 – Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet – are to be found in the…
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Super 8½ (1994) movie review: Underground Bruce La Bruce feature is a subversive, self-indulgently chaotic Citizen Kane + Fellini + gay explicit sex mélange.
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Tônia Carrero, Anselmo Duarte in Tico-Tico no Fubá Brazilian actor and filmmaker Anselmo Duarte, whose 1962 anti-religious intolerance drama Keeper of Promises remains the only Brazilian production to have won…
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Gay brothers’ incest tale From Beginning to End with Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcelos. Brazilian filmmaker Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim (From Beginning to End), which revolves around…
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Lake Tahoe directed by Fernando Eimbcke. Fernando Eimbcke’s minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of…
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B Film Noir Actress More Frightening Than Bette Davis? + The Curious Mystery of the Savage Doppelgänger (and other Hollywood impostors).
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Young People Fucking / YPF (2007) movie review: Martin Gero’s true-to-life sex romantic comedy-drama is funny, provocative and at times surprising.
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Cao Hamburger directed The Year My Parents Went on Vacation. Set in 1970, the year Brazil (or rather, the soccer team representing the country) won the World Cup, O Ano em…
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Dercy Gonçalves Dercy Gonçalves dies at 101: Brazilian show business icon was a stage, film + television star Dercy Gonçalves, a Brazilian stage, film, television, and carnival superstar for nearly…
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The Aerial (2007) Movie Review: Esteban Sapir’s black-and-white, near-silent morality fantasy is both daringly innovative and lovingly nostalgic.
Sara Montiel Sara Montiel: Legendary Spanish movie and recording superstar Sara Montiel, a.k.a. Sarita Montiel a.k.a. Saritisima, one of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest film and recording stars, died yesterday, April…
Robert Pattinson: Cosmopolis movie July 11 update: Robert Pattinson Cosmopolis movie trailer HD. This US Cosmopolis trailer doesn’t start with Robert Pattinson saying “I wanna a haircut.” (Please scroll down.)…
Bin Laden movie & Obama Administration connection: Republican congressman wants investigation The Hurt Locker‘s Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama…
Mexican actors: Durango-born Ramon Novarro, Canadian Norma Shearer, and Dane Jean Hersholt in the German Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Turner Classic Movies’ Hispanic Heritage Month celebration…
British Independent Film Awards: Moon Mystery and brutal Tom Hardy Tops + Andrzej Wajda Passion & Death Tale Is European Film Awards’ FIPRESCI Winner.
Passchendaele. Genie Awards: World War I drama ‘Passchendaele’ wins Best Picture In a bizarre twist, the Canadian Academy of Film & Television (website) chose Passchendaele, Paul Gross’ flag-waving World War…
Diseuse Berta Singerman and Luana Alcañiz in Nothing More Than a Woman. The 1934 melodrama Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman, a unique sample of…
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