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,…
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…
What is Ran? Akira Kurosawa period epic is not an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Mieko Harada pictured. “Critical cribbing” is a term I coined in regard to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…