Youssef Chahine, possibly the world’s most renowned Arab filmmaker and the winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, died today at Al-Maadi Military Hospital in…
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The life of Darby Crash and the Germs was based around a five-year plan. Director Rodger Grossman would spend triple that amount of time making a film version of the…
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François Cluzet in Tell No One. Several weeks ago, I chatted with actor-director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, 35, at a West Hollywood hotel where Canet was promoting his romantic thriller Tell No…
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“I’m the last survivor of one section of the history of French cinema,” director-screenwriter Jean Delannoy declared in 2004. The “last survivor” died yesterday, June 18, at his home in…
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Chop Shop by Ramin Bahrani. Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop, which opens today in Los Angeles, has received widespread praise since its premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The French…
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Joseph Pevney. Director Joseph Pevney: From Joan Crawford & Loretta Young to ‘Star Trek’ Director Joseph Pevney, best known for his 1950s movies made chiefly at Universal, and for handling…
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Sydney Pollack and Patrick Dempsey in the box office disappointment Made of Honor. Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s,…
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Water Lilies movie with Adèle Haenel and Pauline Acquart. Filmmaker Céline Sciamma briefly discusses the lesbian coming-of-age drama Water Lilies. “Watching the film I want the audience to embrace the…
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Jellyfish movie with Ilanit Ben Yaakov and Sarah Adler. I caught Jellyfish (Meduzot in Hebrew), which opens in New York tomorrow and in Los Angeles on April 25, at the…
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A 40th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, will take place on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for directing The English Patient (above, 1996), died today, March 18, at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was 54. “It was a very…
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Cries and Whispers. Ingmar Bergman (right) will be the subject of a weekend-long salute – with the screening of five of his Academy Award-nominated and winning films – beginning Friday,…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just begun an homage to Hungarian director Béla Tarr, which runs until March 28. Titled “Reel Epics: The Films of Béla Tarr,”…
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View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo filmmakers John Ealer and Laura Bialis. Directed by John Ealer and Laura Bialis (above), View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo, described on…
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Francesco Rosi political drama Salvatore Giuliano. This year’s Berlin Film Festival will present the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement to the unabashedly political Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 85, on Feb.…
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Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek, Ellen Page and nominated directors: Oscar Nominees Luncheon plus humongous group photo.
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Lasso of Truth: Lynda Carter Woman Woman vs. George W. Bush Liar Man. Lynda Carter & Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth vs. George W. Bush & Lying cronies Lynda Carter,…
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Screenwriter, director, and producer Costa-Gavras, 74, never one to shy away from inflammatory themes, will be honored with the second-ever Eisenstein Award handed out by the University of Southern California’s…
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Henry King: Film director mostly associated with 20th Century Fox. Henry King director: San Sebastian Film Festival retrospective Henry King is best remembered for the movies he directed at Fox,…
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Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar: Best-known Spanish film director According to a poll conducted by the Spanish-based SigmaDos, Pedro Almodóvar is the best-known modern-day Spanish film director in his home country,…
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Michelangelo Antonioni, the film master of modern alienation, despair, and ennui, was the third important personage of world cinema to die in the last three days – Ingmar Bergman and…
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Fanny and Alexander: Bertil Guve and Pernilla Allwin are the two young leads in Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 classic that earned the veteran filmmaker his third and last Best Director Oscar…
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This past June 14, one of the world’s top directors of the last 25 years, Pedro Almodóvar, was presented with the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of…
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Curtis Harrington, best known as the director of numerous stylized horror films, died on Sunday evening, May 6, at his Hollywood Hills home. Harrington had never fully recovered from a…
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The New York Public Library’s Donnell Media Center is presenting “The Two Faces of Wakefield Poole,” centering on the filmmaker of X-rated gay and not-so-gay cult classics such as Boys in…
Dino Risi, best known for his 1974 comedy-drama Profumo di donna / Scent of a Woman, has died in Rome. Risi, who was 91, had been suffering from ill health…
Formerly known as Padre Nuestro (not to be confused with Rodrigo Sepúlveda’s Chilean drama of the same name), screenwriter-director Christopher Zalla’s debut feature Sangre de Mi Sangre (“Blood of My…
Jack Neely’s “The Forgotten Director: Who was Clarence Brown?” at Metro Pulse: “Dr. Gwenda Young, a film-studies professor at University College Cork, came across [Clarence] Brown by an unlikely route.…
Dennis Lim in the New York Times: “When referring to the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, it is now – and has been for some time – customary to affix…
Russian Mafia + Rwanda Genocide top English-Language-centered Genie nominations + DGA and ASC Awards + Maribel Verdú is named Best Actress.
A complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897–1987), one of cinema’s greatest stylists and innovators, will run at New York City’s Film Forum from Friday, Sept. 7, through Tuesday,…
In late August, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program will present “Billy Wilder’s Europe,” a seven-film series showcasing samples of the…