The images below are from arrivals at AFI Fest 2008 held at Arclight Hollywood on November 6. Marisa Tomei (Photo by Toby Canham/Getty Images for AFI) Mickey Rourke at the …
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Gina Lollobrigida: Five-decade movie career Movie legend Gina Lollobrigida – La Lollo for short – turned 81 last July 4. She’ll be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award next Wednesday …
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Young People Fucking / YPF (movie 2007) review: Martin Gero’s true-to-life sex romantic dramedy is both funny and provocative – and a times quite surprising. Aaron Abrams stars.
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Doubt, the much-anticipated drama directed and adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, and starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and …
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Guillaume Depardieu, best known, perhaps, as the eldest son of superstar Gérard Depardieu, has died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital in the Greater Paris area. He was 37. …
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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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Danny Boyle’s Bollywood-style drama – in spirit if not in deed – topped this year’s Toronto Film Festival: Slumdog Millionaire. Toronto Film Festival awards: Bollywood-style movie tops The fantastic story …
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Somebody Save Me: Gay conversion therapy film Save Me. Save Me is the tale of a couple of troubled gay men (Chad Allen, Robert Gant) who find salvation (of an …
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In The Guardian, Simon Callow reviews Ever Dirk: The Bogarde Letters, a collection of letters written by Dirk Bogarde and edited by John Coldstream, former books editor at the Daily …
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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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Baghdad High (movie 2007) review: Documentary focuses on four Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are.
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Pietro Germi. Though not as well remembered as several of his contemporaries such as Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti, Pietro Germi was a respected director of Italian dramas and – …
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Youssef Chahine, possibly the world’s most renowned Arab filmmaker and the winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, died today at Al-Maadi Military Hospital in …
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The Aerial (movie 2007) review: Esteban Sapir’s black-and-white, near-silent morality fantasy is both daringly innovative and lovingly nostalgic.
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2008 Jerusalem Film Festival Awards 2008 Jerusalem Film Festival: July 10–19 Ronit Elbabetz and Shlomi Elkabetzs 7 Days: “One of the brothers of the Ohaion family dies. It is a …
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The Man Who Laughs with Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova. The 13th San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF), to be held at the Castro Theater throughout the July 11-13 weekend, …
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The Valet (movie 2006) review: The gifted Daniel Auteuil delivers an appealing comic performance in the latest Francis Veber farce. Gad Elmaleh and Alice Taglioni costar.
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“I’m the last survivor of one section of the history of French cinema,” director-screenwriter Jean Delannoy declared in 2004. The “last survivor” died yesterday, June 18, at his home in …
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Al Pacino in Scarface. Los Angeles Film Festival Awards 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival: June 19-29. Prince of Broadway tells the story of a Ghanaian immigrant living in New York …
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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 …
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Dino Risi, best known for his 1974 comedy-drama Profumo di donna / Scent of a Woman, has died in Rome. Risi, who was 91, had been suffering from ill health …
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Kwaidan. Sunday, June 8, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Some consider Stagecoach, a rip-off of Guy de Maupassant’s “Boule de suif,” John Ford’s best film. Personally, despite a few good …
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School film The Class. School film wins Palme d’Or: French drama ‘The Class’ Laurent Cantet’s “school film” The Class was the Palme d’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, …
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Water Lilies movie with Adèle Haenel and Pauline Acquart. Filmmaker Céline Sciamma briefly discusses the lesbian coming-of-age drama Water Lilies. “Watching the film I want the audience to embrace the …
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Max Schreck in Nosferatu 1922. Max Schreck: Nosferatu 1922 ‘batman’ biography to come out in Germany The first biography of Max Schreck, best known as the “batman” a.k.a. vampire in …
A record 67 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 81st Academy Awards, Academy President Sid Ganis announced today. Jordan is the only …
Tonight begins the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s series “The Tales of Eric Rohmer,” which will screen eleven of the veteran filmmaker’s films every weekend until September 27. Of …
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter. Friday, Aug. 22, highlights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I’m not all that familiar with Trevor Howard’s career as a star. I’ve …
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 …
François Cluzet in Tell No One. Several weeks ago, I chatted with actor-director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, 35, at a West Hollywood hotel where Canet was promoting his romantic thriller Tell No …
In addition to a screening of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have another East Asian cinematic event in the upcoming weeks: an …
War and Peace movie directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. “You are never, ever, going to see anything to equal it … as spectacular as a movie can possibly be.” That’s Roger …