WALL-E. The Best Picture winner at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Disney/Pixar’s Andrew Stanton-directed WALL-E became the first feature-length animated film to top that particular category. Curiously, the…
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days with Anamaria Marinca: Oscars’ abortion movie snub. Cristian Mungiu’s enthusiastically received, Palme d’Or-winning abortion movie 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days was…
No Country for Old Men with Josh Brolin. Joel and Ethan Coen’s somber, brutal thriller is easily this awards season’s top Best Film choice. Besides Josh Brolin, the cast includes…
Manoel de Oliveira, Jeanne Moreau, and Liv Ullmann at the European Film Awards. Veteran Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, 99 years old next Dec. 11, was the recipient of the…
Joy Division movie tops British Independent Film Awards Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s Control, a black-and-white drama about troubled Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, won five trophies – including best film,…
“Yellow face” in Hollywood movies: Paul Muni is a Jewish-Austrian-Hungarian Chinese in The Good Earth. Today it’d have been simpler. Muni would have been merely a Jewish-Ukrainian Chinese. Hollywood Chinese,…
Cannes 60: Jane Fonda and Cristian Mungiu, Palme d’Or winner for the Romanian abortion drama 4 Weeks 3 Months and 2 Days. “Cannes is the heart of world cinema. The…