Kurt Maetzig. Remembering pioneer East German filmmaker Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig, one of East Germany’s pioneering filmmakers, died on Aug. 8 at his home in the village of Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,…
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Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Christian Petzold drama ‘Barbara’: Germany Oscar Submission Starring Nina Hoss, writer-director Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s…
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Cosmopolis 2012 with Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson Cosmopolis movie: Highly unlikely further expansion Sept. 4 update: Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis had a solid debut at three U.S. theaters…
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The Loves of Pharaoh (movie 1922) review: Future Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings chews the scenery in this disappointing Ernst Lubitsch epic. Dagny Servaes and Harry Liedtke costar.
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Robert Pattinson: Cosmopolis movie July 11 update: Robert Pattinson Cosmopolis movie trailer HD. This US Cosmopolis trailer doesn’t start with Robert Pattinson saying “I wanna a haircut.” (Please scroll down.)…
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Robert Pattinson news: Eclectic film projects June 26 update: In Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami, a movie adaptation (written by Rachelle Bennette) of Guy de Maupassant’s 19th-century novel,…
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Carlos Reichenbach: The Forbidden Paradise / O Paraíso Proibido. Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer perhaps best known for his sex comedies and dramas of the 1970s and early 1980s,…
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Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur While delivering her intro for the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony, Mistress of Ceremonies Bérénice Bejo waxed poetic: “If festivals are…
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Sex Tourism Movie Outrages Critics: ‘Paradise: Love’ directed by Ulrich Seidl and criticized for not taking a ‘morally acceptable’ stance re: its subject.
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Joyce Redman, Academy Award nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from…
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Serbian gay movie hit: Srdjan Dragojevic’s The Parade Srdjan Dragojevic’s black comedy Parada / The Parade has become the biggest box office hit “in the former Yugoslavia in years,” according…
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Penélope Cruz, Alessandro Tiberi, Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love. Cannes movies The 2012 Cannes Film Festival buzz keeps getting stronger for a variety of movies. So far, the only…
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Pierre Schoendoerffer, who won an Academy Award for the 1967 Vietnam War documentary The Anderson Platoon, died following an operation at a hospital outside Paris. He was 83. While still…
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Jean Dujardin Les infidèles / The Players World Trade Center 9/11 Joke Censored due to Best Actor Oscar concerns claims report.
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Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice: Ingmar Bergman actor also collaborated with Andrei Tarkovsky. Erland Josephson, who was featured in more than a dozen Ingmar Bergman movies in addition to several plays…
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Jean Dujardin. Jean Dujardin made film-award history after he won the 2012 Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as a fading silent film matinee idol in Michel Hazanavicius’ The…
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Lina Romay, a pretty brunette who starred in numerous risqué features for longtime companion Jesus Franco (a.k.a. Jess Franco), has died. According to online reports, Romay died of cancer on…
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No Rest for the Wicked with José Coronado Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid:…
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Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
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Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died at age 76 on Jan. 24 at a hospital near Athens. Angelopoulos had suffered serious head injuries after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing…
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Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami: Berlin Film Festival. A week or so ago, we wondered if the Robert Pattinson period drama Bel Ami would be screened at the 2012 Berlin…
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Jeremy Irvine Jeremy Irvine, the star (along with the titular character) of Steven Spielberg’s World War I drama War Horse, arrives at the 2012 London Film Critics Awards. Irvine was…
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The Artist‘s Michel Hazanavicius is the only first-timer among the five nominated directors for the 2012 Directors Guild of America Awards. Hazanavicius’ competition consists of Woody Allen for Midnight in…
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BAFTA Fellowship: Very few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood Axis despite sometimes more than 1 annual honoree in recent years.
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Film Critics Awards: Major Korean Surprise and Favorite Jessica Chastain + Michael Bay Bomb and Cinema Homage as well as beginnings of cosmic consciousness.
South (movie 1919) review: Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his landmark Antarctic expedition are depicted in beautiful and harrowing detail in this silent era documentary.
Limousine rider Juliette Binoche. Cosmopolis reviews Starring Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is missing a scene found in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel: a 300-person orgy at a Manhattan intersection. But…
Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be…
Harvey Weinstein “entourage” apparently includes the current French president. The Legion d’Honneur Chevalier was nominated by none other than Nicolas Sarkozy, whose behind-the-scenes support for the powerhouse Hollywood producer and…
Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo in The Artist Jean Dujardin can’t win ’em all. For his (in my humble opinion brilliant) performance as a fading silent film star in Michel…
Stage and screen British actor Nicol Williamson, who played Hamlet onstage and Merlin on screen, died on Dec. 16 in Amsterdam, where he had been living since 1970. His son…
Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: Making Golden Globes history. Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: ‘The Artist’ achieves unique Golden Globes feat Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo accept…