2023 Cannes Film Festival winners: Molly Manning Walker’s directorial feature debut How to Have Sex was named the Un Certain Regard sidebar’s Best Film. Mia McKenna-Bruce stars.
Movie Festivals
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Veteran actor Michael Douglas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. He is the eighth American to be accorded the honor (out of 17 recipients).
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TCM Classic Film Festival: Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh, and actor (and sometime director) George Clooney were among the Hollywood celebrities in attendance.
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TCM Classic Film Festival: Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret and Russ Tamblyn were among the celebrities in attendance, while screenings focused on Warner Bros.’ (official) centenary.
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Venice Film Festival Awards 2020: Is Frances McDormand on her way to a third Best Actress Oscar for her work in Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland?
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The Doll (movie 1919) review: Ernst Lubitsch satire features incredibly inventive production design. Ossi Oswalda (‘the German Mary Pickford’) and Hermann Thimig stars.
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Amazing Tales from the Archives: SFSFF spotlights unusual movie audio system, pioneering female documentarian and memorably inventive comedy fantasies.
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Cannes Winners vs Oscar Nominations: Joaquin Phoenix and AIDS Drama that made Pedro Almodóvar sob plus rare Swedish Palme d’Or winner chances?
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Mothers of Men (movie 1917) review: Remarkable women’s suffrage tale asks whether the female right to vote would destroy American society. Dorothy Davenport stars.
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The Strongest (1929) movie review: The first feature (co-)directed by Alf Sjöberg is a visually splendid Arctic adventure that moves at glacial speed.
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Around China with a Movie Camera (film 2015) review: British Film Institute compilation offers a magical window into long-gone Chinese sights.
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L’Inhumaine (movie 1924) review: Uniquely modernistic Marcel L’Herbier silent mixes sex melodrama, revenge thriller and science fiction.
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The Audition 2015: Martin Scorsese Short starring Leonardo DiCaprio + Robert De Niro and for Macau business Cancelled at Venice Film Festival.
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Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day (movie 1913) review: Long-forgotten silent offers a rare look at black people’s lives in the early 20th century.
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The Cave of the Silken Web (movie 1927) review: Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster remains intriguing thanks to its focus on some fierce women.
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The Donovan Affair (movie 1929) review: Frank Capra’s largely forgotten first all-talkie is now a silent. Jack Holt and Agnes Ayres star.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s ‘A Night at the Cinema in 1914’ was the second best thing to a time machine. World War I and Charles Chaplin featured.
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Midnight Madness (movie 1928) review: One hour of unadulterated fluff fails to justify the titillating title of this late silent era release. Clive Brook and Jacqueline Logan star.
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Song of the Fishermen (movie 1934) review: Cai Chusheng drama depicts the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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Topics at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s Amazing Tales from the Archives included Fred Ott’s seminal ‘sneeze face’ and the technological Charles Chaplin.
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Robert Pattinson in Maps to the Stars. ‘Maps to the Star’s trailer and clips: Julianne Moore goes ballistic after losing a role, Robert Pattinson learns that Mia Wasikowska’s parents are…
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Best Picture tie surprise: Gravity was one of the winners. Producers Guild of America Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Best Picture Earlier this evening, Jan. 19,…
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Kristen Stewart in Camp X-Ray. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Kristen Stewart & Peyman Moaadi praised, but mixed reviews for Sundance political drama The Guardian‘s Xan Brooks wasn’t too crazy about first-time feature…
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Bad Hair day with Samuel Lange Zambrano. ‘Bad Hair’ day at San Sebastian Film Festival: Venezuelan film wins Golden Shell Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair / Pelo malo won the Golden…
Cannes Film Festival 2023 has announced 19 eclectic titles in competition for the Palme d’Or, but the big story has been - and will likely remain - a high-profile U.S. movie not in the running.
Cannes Winners Diane Kruger and Sofia Coppola Oscar Chances + bypassed but potential awards season contenders from Michael Haneke to Robert Pattinson.
San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights include hand-tinted color fantasies by Segundo de Chomón and Louis Feuillade in the days before Technicolor.
Venice Film Festival 2015 Jury: Oscar Winner Alfonso Cuarón President alongside The Hunger Games actress while Europeans dominate juries.
Ménilmontant (movie 1926) and Emak-Bakia (1927) reviews: Avant-Garde Paris’ memorable offerings for those willing to take a chance.
The Girl in Tails (movie 1926) review: Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman show that to fight oppression women must stand up and scandalize.
Robert Pattinson Mission: Blacklist aborted. Pattinson is seen above in Life with Dane DeHaan. Robert Pattinson out of ‘Mission: Blacklist’ movie Robert Pattinson and Mission: Blacklist have parted ways. Pattinson,…