SAG Awards: Marion Cotillard to Lead French invasion? Other Screen Actors Guild Award possibilities range from Jennifer Lawrence to Meryl Streep.
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National Board of Review Awards make history as Kathryn Bigelow becomes 1st woman Best Director while 1 more top star is Best Supporting Actor.
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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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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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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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The Loves of Pharaoh (movie 1922) review: Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings chews the scenery in this disappointing Ernst Lubitsch epic. Dagny Servaes and Harry Liedtke costar.
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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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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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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 …
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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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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. 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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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, …
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 …
Sex Tourism Movie Outrages Critics: ‘Paradise: Love’ directed by Ulrich Seidl and criticized for not taking a ‘morally acceptable’ stance re: its subject.
Jean Dujardin Les infidèles / The Players World Trade Center 9/11 Joke Censored due to Best Actor Oscar concerns claims report.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …