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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Pan’s Labyrinth with Doug Jones as the Faun. Whereas Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver received on single Academy Award nomination – Penélope Cruz is up for Best Actress – Guillermo del Toro’s…
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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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Water with Lisa Ray. Set in the late 1930s, during the British occupation of India, Deepa Mehta’s Water created quite a stir during its production in that country. Spoken in…
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James McAvoy in The Last King of Scotland. This year, the British Academy decided to support two (at least part-) British “royal movies”: Stephen Frears’ The Queen, starring Helen Mirren…
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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 as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. Set in the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death, Stephen Frears’ The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, goes out of its way…
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Captain Alatriste with Viggo Mortensen. The Spanish Academy’s Goya Awards’ top nominee, Agustín Díaz Yanes’ Captain Alatriste received a total of 15 nods, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted…
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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 began his prolific film scoring career when he was in his early 30s. Among his best-known compositions are those for Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the…
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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 Awards: Penélope Cruz was the Best Actress winner for Pedro Almodóvar’s unusual family comedy-drama Volver, which had previously earned Cruz – as a 21st century Anna Magnani –…
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…
Volver with Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Pedro Almodóvar mother-daughters comedy-drama Volver – literally, “To Return” – marks the filmmaker’s Goya Awards comeback, topping five categories, including Best Picture and…
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.