Chinese director Zhang Yimou and American actor Matt Damon’s epic monster movie The Great Wall gives globalization a bad name.
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Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster The Cave of the Silken Web
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In the social/family drama Song of the Fishermen, filmmaker Cai Chusheng portrays the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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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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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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Michelle Yeoh Martial Arts Fighting, Zack Snyder directing Superman Reboot with Batman director Christopher Nolan as executive producer.
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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…
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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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Séraphine de Senlis Biopic Séraphine with Yolande Moreau. The 2009 César ceremony, held this evening at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, offered a few surprises. (In the U.S. and…
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Toni Servillo, Best Actor at the European Film Awards for his work in the Camorra movie Gomorrah. The Italian performer has been featured in about 15 movies since the early…
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Lust Caution: Sex scenes fail to offend Venice Film Festival jury. Yesterday, surprising many prognosticators, the controversial, near-sexually explicit spy thriller Se, Ji / Lust, Caution earned Ang Lee his…
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SAG Awards: British Dames Julie Andrews and Helen Mirren are top winners + immigration and identity theft drama wins Sundance + Gong Li leads Hong Kong.
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The Go Master: Chinese political controversy at the Golden Horse Awards. ‘After This Our Exile’ tops Golden Horse Awards Patrick Tam’s Fu zi / After This Our Exile won this…
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Banned Chinese film – but is it really? – wins Tribeca Film Festival’s top prize, while Russian space drama + El Salvador Civil War tale are Moscow and Seattle faves.
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Stephen Chow’s blockbuster action-comedy has beaten Wong Kar-Wai international hit while strangely failing to top direction and screenplay at Hong Kong Film Awards.
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NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.
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…
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 Cider House Rules movie with Tobey Maguire. Lasse Hallström’s 1999 Best Picture nominee The Cider House Rules will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
Mexican wrestler vs. invading Martians: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs la invasión de los marcianos. Mexican Wrestler Santo vs. the Martians + Bhutanese fantasy-adventure & Helen Mirren: Rio Film…
The Golden Horse Awards’ surprise Best Film is an environmentally conscious Tibet-set ‘Western’ that beat an all-star international hit directed by Wong Kar-Wai.