Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Zinnemann, Fay Wray, Henri-Georges Clouzot, T.E.B. Clarke, Yves Allégret, Dan Duryea, Paula Wessely, Burgess Meredith, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Run Run Shaw, and the list…
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Cannes 60: Jane Fonda and Cristian Mungiu, Palme d’Or winner for the Romanian abortion drama 4 Weeks 3 Months and 2 Days. “Cannes is the heart of world cinema. The…
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Alain Delon, Bianca di Sofia at the Cannes Film Festival screening of ‘To Each His Own Cinema’ At Cannes Film Festival, Roman Polanski blames computers for journalists’ idiocy “I believe…
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Twenty-two films will be vying for the 2007 Palme d’Or once the 60th Cannes Film Festival gets under way next Wednesday, May 16. Among the 13 first-timers in the official…
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Monica Bleibtrau is this year’s German Oscar winner. German Oscar winners The 2007 German Film Academy’s Lola Award nominees were announced on March 16. The 57th German Film Academy’s Lola…
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The Rubby Slipper Mystery: The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Missing shiny shoes Via the ABC News blog The Blotter: Anna Schecter reports that the case of the missing ruby slippers…
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Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s 2007 action comedy Hot Fuzz is a riotously funny and unusually creative spoof of Hollywood’s buddy movies.
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Hong Kong Film Awards: Patrick Tam comeback movie After This Our Exile tops April 15 update: After This Our Exile / Fu zi, Patrick Tam’s first directorial effort in 17…
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Paul Rudd: I Heart Huckabees on-set blow-up parody co-star (in the Lily Tomlin role). Paul Rudd & Max Showalter parody Lily Tomlin & David O. Russell I Heart Huckabees on-set…
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Julie Christie today: Critical praise for ‘Away from Her’ Julie Christie today in Away from Her. Via The [London] Guardian - Tim Adams’ “The divine Miss Julie” in The [London] Observer:…
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Lady Chatterley with Marina Hands. Perhaps there’s hope for this evening’s Oscar ceremony. On Saturday, I watched (most of) the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences’ 32nd César du…
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Canadian Movie Awards: Olivier Gourmet in Congorama Quebec’s 2007 Jutra Awards, presented on Sunday, Feb. 18, offered a whole array of surprises. Even though the bilingual box office smash Bon…
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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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Berlin Film Festival: Nazi era and Cold War Flops + handjob expert Marianne Faithfull and inspirational (but debatable) Nelson Mandela tale.
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Academy Awards: Mexicans Invade the Oscars and the British are back in one of most international Oscars in history while Pedro Almodóvar shockingly snubbed.
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Maj-Britt Nilsson. Maj-Britt Nilsson, best known for her roles in three Ingmar Bergman films of the early 1950s, died last Dec. 19 in Cannes. She was 82. Nilsson’s three Bergman…
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar European slant clear as only 1 exception among contenders + hip-hopping immigration drama tops Guldbagge Awards.
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WGA Awards go for populist + outlandish screenplays while last year’s Maurice Richard leads Genie nods and Storm thriller among Guldbagge contenders.
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Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well deserves to be as well known as Rashomon and Seven Samurai. Toshiro Mifune stars.
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Helen Mirren Queen Elizabeth Double Awards Season Dose + Mexican Directors Are U.S. Critics’ Winners
Helen Mirren Queen Elizabeth double + Leonardo DiCaprio triple awards season dose while Mexican directors surprise as US critics’ favorites.
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Goya Awards Nominations: Mercenary Viggo Mortensen vs. Manchega Penélope Cruz plus 2 anti-Franco movies: darkly violent fairy tale and Salvador biopic.
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Released 9 years after atomic bombs were dropped on 2 Japanese cities, the 1954 classic Godzilla / Gojira features 1 of cinema’s greatest monsters.
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Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West and Cinema Paradiso composer gets Honorary Oscar after 500 scores plus five nominations but no wins.
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Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.
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European Film Award Winners Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar though spy drama Is Top Pick while Roman Polanski gets Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song, the 1982 period family drama Fanny and Alexander is even more engrossing in its longer form.
Academy’s Sound Effects Film Series On Saturday, April 28, the Academy’s Science and Technology Council will launch its “Sound, Camera, Action!” series at the Linwood Dunn Theater with a screening…
Jessie Matthews in the musical First a Girl: Victor Victoria precursor. The bfi is currently presenting a Jessie Matthews retrospective, which ends on March 11. From Richard Stirling’s bfi article: “Few stories…
Pedro Almodóvar vs. Guillermo del Toro: Volver Marks director’s Premios Goya comeback while Canadian blockbuster co-leads Prix Jutra + Swiss Film Awards.
Katharine Hepburn Oscars exhibition + crowd-pleasing indie tops Producers Guild of America Awards as veteran Monica Bleibtreu co-wins Best Actress.
Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
The Dixie Chicks vs George W. Bush + Freedom of Speech Issue surprising awards season wins + San Diego Film Critics reject groupthink selections.