International Cinema

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…

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…

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 fifty-three…

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…

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…

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…

Mohamed Majd + Nicolas Cazalé’s spot-on performances give a huge boost to Ismaël Ferroukhi’s’s father-son road (to Mecca) movie The Great Journey.

With his 4 movie, Ilya Khrzhanovsky dares audiences to join him on a long, fragmented, and resolutely dreary journey into … where exactly?

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…

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.

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.

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.

The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.

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.

Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Frot are in top form as psychotic siblings in Alexandra Leclère’s humorous and unsettling Paris-set family movie Me and My Sister.

Margaretta Scott. Margaretta Scott: Things to Come & All Creatures Great and Small actress remembered Margaretta Scott, best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television…

Egyptian movie star Ahmed Zaki is best remembered for playing presidents Gamal Abdul Nasser and Anwar Sadat in flag-waving historical dramas.

Go West: Gay movie about Romeo and Romeo romance directed by a European Film Award winner has sparked religious and nationalist outrage in Bosnia.

Stephen Chow’s blockbuster action-comedy has beaten Wong Kar-Wai international hit while strangely failing to top direction and screenplay at Hong Kong Film Awards.

Lior Ashkenazi is perfect as a guilt-ridden Mossad hitman in Eytan Fox’s flawed but gripping (gay-ish) political-psychological drama Walk on Water.

Set during El Salvador’s Civil War, Luis Mandoki’s sentimental yet horrifying Innocent Voices shows how the carnage affects a little boy’s life.

Bruno Ganz Is an out-of-control Adolf Hitler and Corinna Harfouch is a coolly deranged Magda Goebbels in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s convoluted drama Downfall.

Movie festival news from around the world cover big-screen events from New York’s Tribeca to the century’s ‘biggest’ French cinema retrospective in Beijing.

Javier Bardem is an inadequate lead in Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia melodrama The Sea Inside. But the supporting cast is first-rate.