Machiko Kyo. Japanese star Machiko Kyo was seen in several of the most widely admired cinema classics of the 1950s, including Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu, and Teinosuke Kinugasa’s…
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The Great Wall (movie 2016) review: Matt Damon and Zhang Yimou’s Sino-American monster thriller gives globalization a bad name. Also in the cast: Jing Tian and Pedro Pascal.
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The Cave of the Silken Web (movie 1927) review: Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster remains intriguing thanks to its focus on some fierce women.
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Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
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The Lunchbox (movie 2013) review: Ritesh Batra’s Mumbai-set debut feature weaves an epistolary ‘socio-romantic’ narrative. Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur star.
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Zhang Ziyi: Actress seen in The Grandmaster. Golden Horse Awards: Singapore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission wins Best Picture Surprisingly, the 2013 Golden Horse Award for Best Picture was…
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Like Someone in Love (movie 2012) review: Tokyo-set Abbas Kiarostami drama offers a stylish and intriguing look at a dysfunctional ‘love triangle.’
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Best Documentary Oscar: Michael Moore Changes Miserable Failure? + ‘Subversive’ Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi in despite house arrest and smuggled movie.
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The Monkey King 3D. Who is the Monkey King? Chance to find out as Chinese animated classic to have West Coast premiere The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven in 3D…
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Carice van Houten and Rutger Hauer in ‘Black Butterflies’ Carice van Houten & ‘She Monkeys’: Tribeca Film Festival Awards Writer-director Lisa Aschan’s feature film debut, the Swedish lesbian drama She…
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Sex-Starved housewives and Gay Iranian refugees + veteran New Wave actress Marina Vlady: Sundance Film Festival highly eclectic film line-up.
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Michelle Yeoh Martial Arts Fighting, Zack Snyder directing Superman Reboot with Batman director Christopher Nolan as executive producer.
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Tony Award winners: Eddie Redmayne in Red, with Alfred Molina. June 13 update: Hollywood took over Broadway at the 2010 Tony Awards. Or almost. Presenters included Daniel Radcliffe and Academy…
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Black Rain. Animego’s DVD release of Shohei Imamura’s Black Rain includes as a bonus feature a selection of World War II-era anti-Japanese propaganda films. Sponsored by various U.S. government bureaucracies,…
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Toshiro Mifune (second from right) in Seven Samurai. The Academy had its John Hughes tribute on Sunday. Tonight, Turner Classic Movies is paying tribute to someone who may not be…
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Box office: Valentine’s Day movie had a stronger than expected debut while The Wolfman and Percy Jackson underwhelm.
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Lucy and Ethel lesbian (false) rumors: Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in I Love Lucy. At the San Francisco Chronicle‘s blog/column The Collective Mind, Bob Bragman talks about the unearthing…
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Metro Manila Film Festival: European-inspired action-fantasy starring an actor-politician tops controversial Philippine cinema showcase.
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Zhang Yimou and John Woo Honorary Awards + Air Disaster Drama starring Ken Watanabe Tops Japanese Academy Award Nominations.
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Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition, based on Jumpei Gomikawa’s novel, is probably as well known for its scope and scale as for…
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Sean Connery in From Russia with Love. The American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre will present six features (and several shorts) made in the dye-transfer Technicolor process (a.k.a. I.B. or “imbibition”), beginning…
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House / Hausu by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Schedule and synopses from the American Cinematheque website. Wednesday, September 23 – 7:30 PM Japanese Cult Classics Double Feature: HOUSE (HAUSU), 1977, Janus Films,…
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Spirited Away directed by Hayao Miyazaki. As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ three-month celebration of anime, a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2002 Oscar-winning animated feature…
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Pajama Gladiator (top) The final order of the winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Student Academy Awards – gold, silver, and bronze medal recipients –…
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Wedding Peach. ANIME! High Art – Pop Culture “ANIME! High Art – Pop Culture,” a multimedia exhibition spotlighting the art of Japanese animation, will have its American premiere at the…
Song of the Fishermen (movie 1934) review: Cai Chusheng drama depicts the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
Nagisa Oshima: In the Realm of the Senses Iconoclastic Filmmaker dead at 80 Nagisa Oshima, best known as the director of the sexually charged 1976 psychological drama Ai No Corrida…
3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy box office: Erotic Hong Kong hit has beaten the first-day gross of James Cameron’s international blockbuster Avatar.
Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag’s When We Leave. Feo Aladag’s Turkish-German drama Die Fremde / When We Leave, which recently received six Lola nominations, was voted best narrative film at…
My Name Is Khan movie with Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan: Cricket League comment leads to Hindu nationalist outrage and fat box office receipts. My Name Is Khan movie: Solid…
Gotham Awards: Catalina Saavedra in The Maid. Gotham Awards winners “Kudos to you, great performance,” Rosie Perez told Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled…
The Masseurs and a Woman. The usual 1930s Japanese film preoccupations with societal roles are explored in writer-director Hiroshi Shimizu’s moving Anma to onna / The Masseurs and a Woman…