Euthanasia drama The Sea Inside with Javier Bardem. In Alejandro Amenábar’s euthanasia drama, Javier Bardem plays a tetraplegic Spaniard fighting for the right to end his life in a country where – like just about everywhere else –assisted suicide is…
Alejandro Amenábar
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‘Killers’ Ashton Kutcher-Katherine Heigl Bombs & Audiences Truly Tired of Unoriginal Fare?
by Zac GilleScarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 (top); Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis in Michael Patrick King’s Sex and the City 2 (upper middle); Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of…
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Prison dramas: Luis Tosar and Juan Oliver in Cell 211. Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 / Cell 211, a drama set during a prison riot, was the big winner at the 2010 Goya Awards ceremony held in Madrid on Sunday. Cell…
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Betty White, Sandra Bullock in The Proposal (Kerry Hayes / Touchstone). Sandra Bullock, up for a best actress SAG Award for The Blind Side, will present the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award to Betty White at the 2010 Screen…
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A Very Long Engagement with Audrey Tautou: one among several BAFTA casualties. This year, a number of top awards season contenders have had their British Academy Award (BAFTA) chances short-circuited by a combination of new rules and a dearth of…
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Culture clash: German-Turkish drama Head-On with Birol Ünel and Sibel Kekilli. Directed by Fatih Akin, Head-On was the European Film Awards’ Best Film winner – and loser in all other categories for which it had been nominated. (In the non-official…