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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Tyler Perry in Alex Cross. Tyler Perry’s Alex Cross box office actuals below estimates Oct. 22 update: We all knew that Paramount’s Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman-directed Paranormal Activity 4…
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A Man and a Woman: Anouk Aimée to attend New York City screening of Claude Lelouch classic A Man and a Woman / Un homme et une femme, Claude Lelouch’s…
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Kurt Maetzig. Remembering pioneer East German filmmaker Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig, one of East Germany’s pioneering filmmakers, died on Aug. 8 at his home in the village of Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,…
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Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur While delivering her intro for the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Mistress of Ceremonies Bérénice Bejo waxed poetic: “If festivals are…
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Sex Tourism Movie Outrages Critics: ‘Paradise: Love’ directed by Ulrich Seidl and criticized for not taking a ‘morally acceptable’ stance re: its subject.
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Joyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from…
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Pierre Schoendoerffer, who won an Academy Award for the 1967 Vietnam War documentary The Anderson Platoon, died following an operation at a hospital outside Paris. He was 83. While still…
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Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche: ‘The Players’ posters and 9/11 joke removed. World Trade Center 9/11 joke removed from Jean Dujardin sex comedy ‘The Players’ “Jean Dujardin, already Oscared, can…
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Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice: Ingmar Bergman actor also collaborated with Andrei Tarkovsky. Erland Josephson, who was featured in more than a dozen Ingmar Bergman movies in addition to several plays…
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Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in The Artist Jean Dujardin can’t win ’em all. For his (in my humble opinion brilliant) performance as a fading silent film star in Michel…
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Lina Romay, a pretty brunette who starred in numerous risqué features for longtime companion Jesus Franco (a.k.a. Jess Franco), has died. According to online reports, Romay died of cancer on…
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No Rest for the Wicked with José Coronado Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid:…
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Stage and screen British actor Nicol Williamson, who played Hamlet onstage and Merlin on screen, died on Dec. 16 in Amsterdam, where he had been living since 1970. His son…
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Jeremy Irvine Jeremy Irvine, the star (along with the titular character) of Steven Spielberg’s World War I drama War Horse, arrives at the 2012 London Film Critics Awards. Irvine was…
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Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: Making Golden Globes history. Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: ‘The Artist’ achieves unique Golden Globes feat Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo accept…
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BAFTA Fellowship: Very few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood Axis despite sometimes more than 1 annual honoree in recent years.
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Ken Russell, best known for his movies featuring sex-starved nuns, nude male wrestling, “offensive” religious symbolism, and kaleidoscopic musical numbers, died Sunday, Nov. 27, ’11, in the United Kingdom. Russell…
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Justin Bieber Justin Bieber going to jail? Not so fast Justin Bieber, pop icon and the star of the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (right), has come out against…
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Veteran German actor Heinz Bennent died on Oct. 12. He was 90. The Aachen-born (July 18, 1921) Heinz Bennent never became an international name despite several important roles in international…
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Actor George Baker, best known for playing Tiberius in the British television series I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, died on Oct. 7 according to The…
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Actress Paulette Dubost, known as the “Dean of French Cinema,” and a performer in films directed by Jean Renoir, Marcel L’Herbier, Jacques Tourneur, Julien Duvivier, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, François…
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Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason,…
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Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. White men rule on TCM: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ & ‘The Four Feathers’ + ‘Young Winston’ Turner Classic Movies’ “Race and Hollywood:…
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Possibly Louis Malle’s best film, the Oscar-nominated semi-autobiographical drama Au Revoir les Enfants focuses on the tragic friendship between two boys.
Ernst Lubitsch’s last German film The Loves of Pharaoh disappoints as an epic. Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings stars.
Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be…
Jean Dujardin. Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius’ The…
Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
The Artist‘s Michel Hazanavicius is the only first-timer among the five nominated directors for the 2012 Directors Guild of America Awards. Hazanavicius’ competition consists of Woody Allen for Midnight in…
Shame with Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender. Oscar chances? There have been precious few Oscar-winning “sex movies.” Now that Steve McQueen’s psychological drama Shame has received an NC-17 rating from…
Jean Gabin was France’s answer to Humphrey Bogart, many (English-language) historians have claimed. Either that, or Gabin was France’s answer to Spencer Tracy. Never mind the fact that Gabin was…