The London Film Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award has gone to Nicole Kassell’s U.S. drama The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon as a child molester.
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Featuring attendees like Omar Sharif and Youssef Chahine, Tunisia’s Arab cinema showcase has bestowed top honors on a socially conscious Moroccan drama.
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Award-winning Iraq War-themed drama gets US distribution + veteran Oscar winner has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its very first movie theater.
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The low-key documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr offers a glimpse into the phone habits of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars.
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The 1977 Oscar-nominated political thriller Operation Thunderbolt is a dismal failure as both cinema and propaganda. Klaus Kinski star.
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Foreign Language Film Oscar get entries from 49 countries, but 2 internationally acclaimed Gael García Bernal movies have ended up as Academy Award orphans.
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Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s socially conscious family drama Vera Drake.
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Some are outraged that 9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the BBFC from granting Michael Winterbottom’s psychological romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’
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A less effusive Shakespeare in Love rehash, Stage Beauty fails to delve into the complexities of gender and sexual identity.
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan asserts that his latest movie - the historical political/biographical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising - is not anti-British propaganda. Ketan Mehta directed.
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What are the best British films of all time? Starring Michael Caine, Mike Hodges’ violent thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-focused titles are completely absent.
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War-related movies were the clear favorites at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, where Lifetime Achievement honors went to Hollywood celebrities Woody Allen and Annette Bening.
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Likely one of Germany’s most controversial movies ever made - and one of its costliest - Downfall has turned out to be a major box office hit.
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The new Claude Lelouch film is a critical and box office bomb. The director is resorting to radical measures, but fellow veteran Philippe de Broca thinks that’s a bad idea.
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Chris and Paul Weitz’s reactionary audience-pandering comedy About a Boy (2002) stars Hugh Grant as a man who tragically discovers his inner family man.
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This year’s Venice Film Festival was fraught with assorted snafus that negatively impacted average festivalgoers and big names alike, among them Al Pacino and Harvey Weinstein.
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Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Alfonso Cuarón’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 adaptation proves that CGI and movie magic aren’t the same thing.
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Generally ignored in most of the world, African cinema is the focus of the Toronto Film Festival’s Planet Africa sidebar. A key title is Ousmane Sembene’s most recent effort, Moolaadé.
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The Adolf Hitler movie controversy surrounding Downfall revolves around the following question: Should the world’s most hated leader be portrayed as a complex human being?
First-rate athlete Tony Jaa is the one positive element in the juvenile and reactionary martial arts actioner Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.
Robert Siodmak’s 1957 political drama The Devil Strikes at Night asks whether serial killers are any worse than socially sanctioned mass murderers.
The Oscar-nominated The Grandfather works both as a Fernando Fernán Gómez showcase and as an irresistible message movie.
French film stars Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche are among the celebrities offering support for hostages being held in Iraq.
Venice Festival: The Golden Lion going to Mike Leigh’s British-made abortion drama Vera Drake has angered Italian nativists rooting for Gianni Amelio’s The Keys to the House.
Toronto Film Festival highlights include a biopic of contentious sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, an updated version of a classic Oscar Wilde comedy and Jean-Luc Godard’s latest political musings.