International Cinema

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

British Academy: Corruption and Racism + Doomed Gay Love and Jane Austen top BAFTA nominations as things get mighty serious this awards season.

The Secret Life of Words: English-language drama tops Spanish Academy’s Goya + critics Awards as gay + pregnant Hispanic youth wins Sundance.

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…

Annette Stroyberg: Les Liaisons Dangereuses actress was Brigitte Bardot follow-up playing sex-kitten roles in a couple of husband Roger Vadim films.

Gog 1954 with Richard Egan and Constance Dowling. Little-remembered filmmaker Herbert L. Strock directed the 3D thriller Gog – a 2001: A Space Odyssey precursor about the dangers posed by…

Marc Lawrence: Prolific film gangster and blacklisted House Un-American Activities Committee witness who kept on going all the way to the 2000s.

Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars + Keep the Home Fires Burning composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.

What’s European? Is Best British Film winner sufficiently ‘Euro’? + research on cold-blooded killers & child trafficking drama top Gothams + Stockholm.

The nominees of the L’Oréal Paris 2005 AFI Awards were announced by Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades at the Wharf Restaurant in Sydney on Oct. 21. The winners of the…

Seijun Suzuki’s challenging but noteworthy musical Princess Raccoon mixes various cinematic genres and styles. Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri star.

Brimming with good intentions, the immigration drama To the Other Side is hindered by excessive sentimentality. Good Carmen Maura cameo.

Julie Shles’ quietly amusing and generally well-acted Tel Aviv-set fairy tale Joy discovers magic in unexpected places.