Academy Invites Eddie Redmayne, Bong Joon-ho: Eclectic and International Talent that may help to diversify future Oscar choices.
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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…
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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:…
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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,…
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Álex de la Iglesia vs. Anti-Piracy Sinde Law: Polemical Goya Awards with political speeches, party crasher and homage to Maria Schneider.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
The Perfect Crime (movie 2004) review: Álex de la Iglesia’s brazenly ‘offensive’ satire featues a phenomenal Mónica Cervera as a deceptively timid shopgirl. Guillermo Toledo costars.