In the Fade with Diane Kruger: Fatih Akin’s Avenging Woman drama may give its German-speaking star the chance to become next awards season’s Isabelle Huppert. Diane Kruger: 2017–18 awards season’s…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane: Off-color jokes and dance numbers led to raised eyebrows and complaints. Oscar host debate + producers return Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return next year…
Grace of Monaco Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly. Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in ‘Grace of Monaco’: Best Actress Oscar nominee? Nicole Kidman Best Actress Academy Award nominee (possibly winner)…
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…
Sex tourism movie: Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love. Sex tourism movie outrages Cannes critics & moralists: ‘Paradise: Love’ Reviews of Ulrich Seidl’s sex tourism movie Paradise: Love / Paradies: Liebe, in…
First lesbian kiss? Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go for it in Passion. Rachel McAdams kisses Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime…
Kathleen Turner: Body Heat femme fatale. Actress Kathleen Turner, perhaps best remembered for seducing William Hurt in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat and for romping about with Michael Douglas in Robert…
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…
Jeremy Renner in The Bourne Legacy: Aaron Cross replaces Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity reboot/spin-off. Jeremy Renner in ‘The Bourne Legacy’: First look at Aaron Cross Matt Damon has…
Mike Leigh to be Berlin Film Festival Jury President. No Mike Leigh film has taken home the Berlinale’s Golden Bear, but Happy-Go-Lucky was in contention in 2008, eventually earning star…
Family conflict at the core of Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning psychological drama The Tree of Life. Pictured above: Maïwenn, Mélanie Laurent, Kirsten Dunst, Edgar Ramírez, Marisa Paredes, Dede Gardner, Pablo…
This probably isn’t the last of Lars von Trier – according to him, his project with Martin Scorsese is still a go – but the ‘persona non grata’ filmmaker has…
The Tree of Life 2011 with Brad Pitt. Terrence Malick’s 1950s-set family drama The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, was perhaps the most…
Emily Browning, Sleeping Beauty. Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty divided critics at the Cannes Film Festival – while reminding some of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Presented by Jane Campion, Sleeping…
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen romantic fantasy stars Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams. Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, the director’s 41st film, opened the Cannes Film Festival today. Starring unlikely…
Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In / La piel que habito Christophe Honoré & Catherine Deneuve to close Cannes Film Festival Christophe Honoré’s…
Outside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law…
Luca Argentero and Myriam Catania: Martin Scorsese party at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Luca Argentero and Myriam Catania: Martin Scorsese party at Cannes Film Festival Model and David di…
Claudia Cardinale: Screen legend at Cannes Film Festival. Claudia Cardinale: The Leopard premiere at Cannes Claudia Cardinale arrives at the premiere of the new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 Palme…
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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Maps to the Stars for Robert Pattinson / David Cronenberg? Above, Pattinson in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (Paul Giamatti in background) Robert Pattinson hates Twilight, according to those who have taken seriously…
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…
Justin Bieber Justin Bieber going to jail? Not so fast Justin Bieber, pop icon and the star of the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (right), has come out against…
Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, Unlawful Killing. Screened at Cannes on Friday, Keith Allen’s documentary about the British royal family, Unlawful Killing, will likely fail to find the popular reception accorded…
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that…
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