Nicole Kidman in Fur is Rome Film Festival entry while Helen Mirren is the queen of the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren: The Queen of Venice Film Festival “Thank you, …
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Finis Terrae. Finis terrae (1929): Jean Epstein classic at London’s Barbican Jean Epstein, best known for his 1928 Gothic silent classic The Fall of the House of Usher, was also …
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Film Awards: Free Jimmy. Norway Film Awards: Amandas The nominations for the 2005-2006 Amandas were announced on June 28. The winners of the 2005–2006 Amandas were announced on Aug. 18, …
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The Queen with Helen Mirren. For the first time in the history of the Venice Film Festival, all films competing for the 2006 Golden Lion will have their world premiere …
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Fabián Bielinsky dead at 47: Second (and last) feature film, ‘The Aura,’ was screened a few days ago at the Los Angeles Film Festival Argentinean filmmaker Fabián Bielinsky has died …
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This filmgoer had high hopes for writer-director Fabián Bielinsky’s second feature film, El Aura / The Aura – Argentina’s 2005 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award submission and the winner …
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Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Shohei Imamura died in Tokyo on May 30. The 79-year-old Japanese filmmaker had been suffering from liver cancer. Born in Tokyo in 1926, Imamura entered a …
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley with Cillian Murphy. British-Irish Politics Wins Palme d’Or 13th-time lucky: Veteran Ken Loach’s British-Irish political drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a depiction …
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Merry Christmas with Alex Ferns, Daniel Brühl, Guillaume Canet. Inspired by an actual World War I ceasefire that took place around Christmastime 1914, director-screenwriter Christian Carion’s Merry Christmas is a …
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Alida Valli – Part I Valli looked considerably older, her features hardened, when she resumed her career in 1957. That year, she appeared in three productions: Glauco Pellegrini’s Spanish-Italian L’Amore …
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The River 1951: Jean Renoir India-set classic. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting a restored print of Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. Though largely …
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Silvio Berlusconi attack: The Caiman with Silvio Orlando. The Caiman / Il Caimano, described by the Roman daily La Repubblica as a “dark portrait of Berlusconian Italy,” won four of the …
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Science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, 84, whose novel Solaris was made into a film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, died today of heart failure at a hospital in Krakow. According to …
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Marc-André Grondin in C.R.A.Z.Y. C.R.A.Z.Y. movie tops Genie Awards “I’m touched. This has been something – a crazy experience,” remarked C.R.A.Z.Y. filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the Academy of Canadian …
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Independent gay cowboys + transgender traveler + troubled flamboyant author top Spirit Awards + when Oscar overhype turns out to be anything but.
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Piano-playing gangster Romain Duris and piano teacher Linh Dan Pham in The Beat That My Heart Skipped. César Awards Jacques Audiard’s curious but uninvolving psychological drama De battre, mon coeur …
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There weren’t many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year’s favorites, Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana …
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Gaslighting Abuse 21st-Century Style: George Cukor Classic thriller with Charles Boyer + Ingrid Bergman (already a remake of British film) is being remade.
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British Academy: Corruption and Racism + Doomed Gay Love and Jane Austen top BAFTA nominations as things get mighty serious this awards season.
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Yossi and Jagger with Yehuda Levi and Ohad Knoller. Yossi and Jagger is a tragic love story set in a most unlikely place: an Israeli army camp. Directed by Eytan …
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Aurora Miranda: Carmen Miranda Sister + fiery fancy-hat-wearing Phantom Lady singer also enthralled Donald Duck in Disney’s The Three Caballeros.
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Annette Stroyberg: Les Liaisons Dangereuses actress was Brigitte Bardot follow-up playing sex-kitten roles in a couple of husband Roger Vadim films.
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Marc Lawrence: Prolific film gangster and blacklisted House Un-American Activities Committee witness who kept on going all the way to the 2000s.
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Hidden movie + James Bond actor Sean Connery and David Lean composer Maurice Jarre: Michael Haneke political thriller tops European Film Awards winners.
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Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars and ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
Sherrybaby, Maggie Gyllenhaal among this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival winners. Best Actress Gyllenhaal plays an ex-convict trying to rebuild her life.
Directed by first-time filmmaker Julian Jarrold from a screenplay by Geoff Deane and Calendar Girls co-screenwriter Tim Firth, Kinky Boots is officially a fictional motion picture inspired by a true …
Alida Valli possessed a stern, aristocratic beauty: A wide face covered with dark, voluptuous hair, and featuring large, profoundly expressive green eyes that could convey with equal intensity either soulfulness …
Pan’s Labyrinth with Sergi López. “If you expect to get laid after this screening,” Guillermo del Toro told the midnight (actually, closer to 1 a.m.) audience at the AFI FEST …
The Secret Life of Words: English-language drama tops Spanish Academy’s Goya + critics Awards as gay + pregnant Hispanic youth wins Sundance.
Gog 1954 (2001: A Space Odyssey precursor) director Herbert L. Strock + Brazilian producer of Cinema Novo classics The Guns and Ganga Zumba remembered.