What’s European? Is Best British Film winner sufficiently ‘Euro’? + research on cold-blooded killers & child trafficking drama top Gothams + Stockholm.
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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: Moderately amusing and generally well-acted gay marriage comedy features a stellar cast (Carmen Maura, Marisa Parades et al).
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Princess Raccoon (movie 2005) review: Seijun Suzuki’s challenging but noteworthy musical mixes various cinematic genres and styles. Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri star.
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Joy (movie 2005) review: Julie Shles’ quietly amusing and generally well-acted Tel Aviv-set fairy tale discovers magic in unexpected places. Sigalit Fuchs stars.
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (movie 2005) review: Set in Brazil’s impoverished and semi-arid northeastern hinterlands, this road movie offers more than big-screen ‘exoticism.’
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Amu (movie 2005) review: Shonali Bose’s uneven family drama traces the connection between a long-ago adoption and the bloody anti-Sikh Delhi riots of 1984.
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Hidden / Caché with Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil. Michael Haneke’s violent, profoundly disturbing sociopolitical-psychological drama has been one of the U.S. film critics’ favorites this awards season. Michael Haneke’s …
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AFI FEST showcases Heath Ledger in Casanova: Chaos in Hollywood area. AFI FEST: ‘Casanova’ movie chaos The worst thing I can say about the 2005 edition of the AFI Los …
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Vera Kholodnaya. Russian silent movie star remembered: Vera Kholodnaya Vera Kholodnaya, Russia’s top female movie star of the 1910s, will be brought back to the fore thanks to a Moscow …
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Incest movie Don’t Tell with Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Incest movie ‘Don’t Tell’ is Italian Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award replacement Cristina Comencini’s incest-themed movie La Bestia nel cuore / Don’t …
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Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s …
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This fall, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is presenting the film series “Early Autumn: Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the National Film Center, Tokyo.” The series consists of …
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Michelangelo Antonioni movies at LACMA “Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni,” is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) retrospective honoring the Italian filmmaker, whose body of work includes revered classics …
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Sex and violence in Brazil’s military dictatorship: ‘Damned Brazilian Movies!’ Every Thursday, the Casa França-Brasil in downtown Rio de Janeiro has been presenting the movie series “Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!” (Damned …
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Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July …
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The Great Journey (movie 2004) review: Mohamed Majd and Nicolas Cazalé’s spot-on performances give a huge boost to Ismaël Ferroukhi’s’s father-son road (to Mecca) tale.
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4 (movie 2004) review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky drama dares audiences to join him on a long, fragmented and uncompromisingly dreary journey into … who knows where?
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Suzanne Flon: Actress collaborated with Claude Autant-Lara + John Huston + Orson Welles Suzanne Flon, a renowned stage and screen actress who was featured in more than 50 movies, died …
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India-Pakistan relations – in the form of a star-crossed romantic liaison between Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta – has topped the Indian Film Academy Awards.
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Sikh protests and 2 as-yet-unclaimed bomb attacks at Delhi film theaters have followed the release of a Bollywood action comedy starring Sunny Deol.
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Paolo Sorrentino’s mafia thriller was the surprise big winner at this year’s Italian Oscars, while a Hollywood superstar was an odd choice for the honorary award.
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The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.
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Banned Chinese film – but is it really? – wins Tribeca Film Festival’s top prize, while Russian space drama + El Salvador Civil War tale are Moscow and Seattle faves.
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Me and My Sister (movie 2004) review: Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Frot are in top form as psychotic siblings in Alexandra Leclère’s humorous and unsettling family tale.
To the Other Side (movie 2004) review: Brimming with good intentions, Gustavo Loza’s immigration drama is hindered by excessive sentimentality. Carmen Maura cameo.
An American Haunting (movie 2005) review: (Faux) ‘real-life’ ghost story fails to mine its psychological and spooky possibilities. Rachel Hurd-Wood and Donald Sutherland star.
Paris Riots coming to a neighborhood near you? + rancher Robert Redford in the Amazon + youthful Liv Ullmann tackles social prejudices.
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, the story of two male sheepherders who fall madly in love, was the winner of the Golden Lion at the 62nd Venice Film Festival. The competition’s …
Hotel Rwanda Movie: Facts or fiction in Rwandan genocide drama featuring Oskar-Schindler-like hero – Paul Rusebagina now himself a controversial figure.
Tiefland Leni Riefenstahl auction in England The BBC reports that 33 original photographs taken during the shooting of Tiefland (Lowlands), the last feature film directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl, …
Cannes Film Festival winners: Renowned Belgian brothers receive their 2nd Palme d’Or + US performer Tommy Lee Jones is Best Actor for self-directed performance.