‘The Beginning or the End’ 1947 with Robert Walker and Tom Drake. Hiroshima bombing 70th anniversary: Six movies dealing with the A-bomb terror Seventy years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first…
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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 confirmed screening is that of…
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Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad: Intertextuality via cinematic ‘touchstone.’ Forget all prior claims you’ve read about Alain Resnais,” 90-minute, black-and-white effort L’année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad (1961) – from the…
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BAFTA nominations: Hollywood productions rule. Above: Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then perhaps Hollywood and the United…
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Cannes Film Festival winner ‘The White Ribbon,’ directed by Michael Haneke. One of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival’s clear favorites, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, a stark tale about a small northern German town beset…
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Guillermo del Toro at Mexico’s Ariel Awards. © Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy-tale Pan’s Labyrinth/ El laberinto del fauno was the big winner at the Mexican Academy of Motion…
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Lady Chatterley with Marina Hands. Perhaps there’s hope for this evening’s Oscar ceremony. On Saturday, I watched (most of) the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences’ 32nd César du cinéma ceremony held last night…