The Irony of Fate: landmark Russian romantic Comedy Gets poorly received but highly popular 21st Century sequel directed by Timur Bekmambetov.
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No Country for Old Men Awards: Joel and Ethan Coen violent thriller is US critics’ Best Film + More Winners and Top Ten Undistributed Films.
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Oscar Best Song Longlist includes Freedom of Speech Ditty from Larry Flynt doc + 2 Immigrant Family Dramas with Eric Bana and Joan Chen Top AFI Awards.
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Werner Herzog’s ‘minor’ period psychological drama Woyzeck is superior to most acclaimed Hollywood fare. Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes star.
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Joy Division movie tops British Independent Film Awards Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s Control, a black-and-white drama about troubled Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, won five trophies – including best film,…
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AFI FEST Awards’ top winner was Lee Isaac Chung’s Rwandan genocide film Munyurangabo. In the photo: Jenny Lund, Nash Edgerton, Lauren Greenfield, Jeffrey Schwarz, Andreas Mol Dalsgaard, Michael Addis. Lee…
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“Band movie” filmmaker Eran Kolirin: The Band’s Visit was the Best Film winner at this year’s Tokyo Film Festival. Israeli ‘band movie’ tops Tokyo Film Festival 2007 Tokyo Film Festival:…
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Between Oct. 25–28, Aberystwyth’s National Library of Wales and the Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host the newly created film festival Fflics – Wales Screen Classics. Fflics will screen about 30…
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The first Hollywood actor to lampoon Hitler? A few years ago, in the San Diego Jewish Journal Lynn Rapaport discussed the first Hollywood comedian to play Adolf Hitler on film.…
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San Sebastian Film Festival winner: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Wayne Wang’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the Golden Shell for Best Film at this year’s edition…
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‘Buddha’ quotes: Adolescent filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf discusses ‘Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame’ at San Sebastian Film Festival “As an 18-year-old girl who lives in Iran today and who faces very…
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‘Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist’ & ‘Best Boy’: Oscar Documentaries + Canadian Women in Animation
Next in “Oscar’s Docs, Part Three: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1977–1988,” The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, and Best Boy will be screened on Monday,…
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Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed 1957 neorealist drama Il Grido stars an outstanding Steve Cochran. Also in the cast: Alida Valli and Betsy Blair.
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British cinema is back in full force at this year’s Venice Film Festival According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007 Lions tomorrow are: Best…
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Isabella Leong and Rainie Yang as lesbian lovers in Spider Lilies. The Speed of Life wins first Queer Lion: Early Venice Film Festival winners The Venice Film Festival’s first Queer…
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Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen Shirtless and Tattooed: London Film Festival Opening Gala David Cronenberg’ London-set thriller Eastern Promises will open this year’s Times BFI 51st London Film…
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Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar: Best-known Spanish film director According to a poll conducted by the Spanish-based SigmaDos, Pedro Almodóvar is the best-known modern-day Spanish film director in his home country,…
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National Film Awards: Controversies obscure winners Aug. 10: Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Bengali-language Kaalpurush - Memories in the Mist, the story of a mild-mannered office clerk (Rahul Bose) whose faltering career is…
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Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep in the Robert Redford-directed Lions for Lambs. The 2007 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival – in press releases referred to as “AFI FEST 2007 presented…
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I was in mid-teens when I first watched Edouard Molinaro’s 1978 film adaptation of La Cage aux folles. I found it hilarious; surely one of the best comedies I’d ever…
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Fanny and Alexander: Bertil Guve and Pernilla Allwin are the two young leads in Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 classic that earned the veteran filmmaker his third and last Best Director Oscar…
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Stage, film, and television actor Ulrich Mühe, winner of last year’s Best Actor European Film Award, died at age 54 on July 22 at his home in Walbeck, in the…
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This evening, Friday, June 29, Turner Classic Movies will screen three creepies: The Unholy Three (1925), West of Zanzibar (1928), and Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey / The…
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Last month, Kino International (website) released the Josephine Baker Collection, a DVD set consisting of three must-see feature films starring Josephine Baker, the frenetic American entertainer (from St. Louis) who…
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This past June 14, one of the world’s top directors of the last 25 years, Pedro Almodóvar, was presented with the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of…
Dubai Film Festival: Belly-dancing Laura Ramsey and Kashmiri frozen Body plus CineKink screening of Tony Comstock docs about adult film stars’ private lives.
The Orphanage movie box office: J.A. Bayona’s supernatural psychological thriller has had a sensational debut in its native Spain.
Screenwriter, director, and producer Costa-Gavras, 74, never one to shy away from inflammatory themes, will be honored with the second-ever Eisenstein Award handed out by the University of Southern California’s…
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…
Rogue movie: Crocodile horror thriller stars Michael Vartan. ‘Rogue’ movie opens in Darwin: Killer crocodile tale reportedly the most expensive Australian horror movie ever Rogue, the story of an American…
Michelangelo Antonioni, the film master of modern alienation, despair, and ennui, was the third important personage of world cinema to die in the last three days – Ingmar Bergman and…
In late August, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program will present “Billy Wilder’s Europe,” a seven-film series showcasing samples of the…