Academy Invites Eddie Redmayne, Bong Joon-ho: Eclectic and International Talent that may help to diversify future Oscar choices.
Bad Hair day with Samuel Lange Zambrano. ‘Bad Hair’ day at San Sebastian Film Festival: Venezuelan film wins Golden Shell Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair / Pelo malo won the Golden…
No Rest for the Wicked with José Coronado Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid:…
Armageddon Film Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is the clear favorite at the 2011 European Film Awards. Nazi joke or no, Cannes Film Festival ban or no,…
Álex de la Iglesia vs. Anti-Piracy Sinde Law: Polemical Goya Awards with political speeches, party crasher and homage to Maria Schneider.
Somewhere movie with Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere movie, hardly a unanimous critical hit (see further below), was the unanimous Golden Lion winner at the 2010 Venice…
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…
Camino with Carmen Elias: Controversial Opus Dei drama. Goya Award winners Written and directed by Javier Fesser, the controversial drama Camino – described by Screen Daily‘s Lee Marshall as a…
How to Make-Up? Oscars’ Artists Show How + Kate Winslet is London Film Critics’ winner/loser while Michael Fassbender is sole Best Actor also-ran.
Sherrybaby, Maggie Gyllenhaal among this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival winners. Best Actress Gyllenhaal plays an ex-convict trying to rebuild her life.
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…
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Jordi Mollà in El cónsul de Sodoma (Steinweg Emotion Pictures) (bottom). In…
In the brazenly ‘offensive’ satire The Perfect Crime, a phenomenal Mónica Cervera is a shy shopgirl who becomes an all-controlling, sexually insatiable Medusa.