2020 Venice Film Festival Awards: Is Frances McDormand on her way to a third Best Actress Oscar for Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland?
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Starring the German Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch’s The Doll movie is a satirical fantasy featuring inventive art direction and jabs at the Catholic Church.
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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 Diane Kruger and Sofia Coppola Oscar Chances + bypassed but potential awards season contenders from Michael Haneke to Robert Pattinson.
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Remarkable women’s suffrage movie Mothers of Men dismisses the notion that the female right to vote would destroy American families and society.
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The first feature (co-)directed by Alf Sjöberg, The Strongest is a visually splendid Arctic adventure. On the downside, the narrative moves at glacial speed.
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights include hand-tinted color fantasies by Segundo de Chomón and Louis Feuillade in the days before Technicolor.
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Featuring modernistic sets and costumes, L’Inhumaine mixes sex melodrama, revenge thriller and science fiction. Marcel L’Herbier directed.
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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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Everest 2015, with Jake Gyllenhaal at the Venice Film Festival. What global warming? Venice Film Festival jury: Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón president The 2015 Venice Film Festival, to be held…
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Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster The Cave of the Silken Web
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Frank Capra’s first all-talkie, The Donovan Affair is now a silent once again. In-house actors were thus needed to voice Jack Holt, Agnes Ayres et al.
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SFSFF’s ‘Avant-Garde Paris’ movies Ménilmontant and the wholly abstract Emak-Bakia were offered to those willing to take a chance.
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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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1 hour of pure fluff, Midnight Madness doesn’t in any way whatsoever do justice to its titillating title. Clive Brook and Jacqueline Logan star.
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Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman’s The Girl in Tails shows that women must fight and scandalize in order to remove the weight of social oppression.
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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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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,…
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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…
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The SFSFF’s Amazing Tales from the Archives featured two fascinating topics: Finding Douglas Fairbanks’ The Half-Breed and early movie sound technology.
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Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos in ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color.’ Lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color wins Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or The 2013 Cannes Film Festival…
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Gay Erotic Thriller Wins Cannes Award + Jerry Lewis ‘Disastrous’ Comeback + ‘Pussy Riot’ Documentary
Gay erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake: Cannes Film Festival’s Queer Palm winner. Gay erotic thriller ‘Stranger by the Lake’ is Cannes’ Queer Palm winner Writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s gay erotic…
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Alfred Hitchcock ca. 1960. Alfred Hitchcock San Francisco: Guided tour through the sites of Hitchcock’s movies The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has arranged for San Francisco City Guides to…
Cannes Film Festival winners: The Square with Claes Bang. “Gobsmackingly weird” Cannes Film Festival favorite may have a tough time landing a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination. As…
Films such as those seen in the British Film Institute’s compilation Around China with a Movie Camera offer a magical window into the past.
Abandoned in post-production and long-forgotten, Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day is a rare early movie about the lives of black people anywhere.
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival program ‘Amazing Tales from the Archives’ discussed the discovery of the 1916 Sherlock Holmes.
In the social/family drama Song of the Fishermen, filmmaker Cai Chusheng portrays the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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,…
Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites: Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in Phil Spector. Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced earlier today by the Academy of Television Arts…