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…
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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: Romantic Western Brokeback Mountain is Spirit Awards’ top pick. In Ang Lee’s well-regarded mix of the Western and romantic soap opera genres, Best Actor Spirit Award nominee…
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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: Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight. Though remembered for his female-centered dramas and comedies (Camille, The Women, A Woman’s Face, etc.) and for being what’s derisively called…
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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’s sister had a long and successful career as a recording artist, but Aurora Miranda was seen in only a handful of films in both Brazil and…
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Annette Stroyberg a.k.a. Annette Vadim: The Danish-born, pouty-lipped actress had a brief film career in the early 1960s, appearing in 10 movies in France and Italy, most notably the French-made…
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Marc Lawrence. Prolific actor was usually cast as gangster and other assorted scuzzy characters, making life difficult for just about everybody, from Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake to Humphrey Bogart…
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Hidden movie director-screenwriter Michael Haneke was the European Film Awards’ Best Director for his disturbing psychological-political thriller starring Best European Actor winner Daniel Auteuil as the embodiment of the guilt-ridden…
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Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars + Keep the Home Fires Burning composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.
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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…
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Queens (2005) movie review: Fluffy but amusing and mostly well-acted gay marriage comedy. Cast: Carmen Maura, Marisa Parade and Hugo Silva.
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Seijun Suzuki’s challenging but noteworthy musical Princess Raccoon mixes various cinematic genres and styles. Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri star.
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Julie Shles’ quietly amusing and generally well-acted Tel Aviv-set fairy tale Joy discovers magic in unexpected places.
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Set in Brazil’s impoverished and semi-arid northeastern hinterlands, the road movie Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures offers more than big-screen ‘exoticism.’
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Shonali Bose’s uneven family drama Amu traces the connection between a long-ago adoption and the bloody anti-Sikh Delhi riots of 1984.
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 with Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins. A modest box office performer in Spain ($4.09 million) and an even more modest performer elsewhere, Isabel Coixet’s Spanish-Irish…
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…
What’s “European”? The Constant Gardener with Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Oscar-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (City of God, 2003) and mostly set in Kenya, The Constant Gardener…
Brimming with good intentions, the immigration drama To the Other Side is hindered by excessive sentimentality. Good Carmen Maura cameo.