2020 Venice Film Festival Awards: Nomadland, with Frances McDormand, wins Golden Lion. If recent history is any indication, Chloé Zhao’s low-budget socio-psychological road movie is about to become a North…
Bette Davis sings “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” About two decades later, Davis herself would be the subject of a song: Kim Carnes sings “Bette Davis’ Eyes.” Bette Davis…
Women Directors’ Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Presence: Nadine Labaki submission Where Do We Go Now? Today it was announced that Patty Jenkins, whose Monster earned Charlize Theron a Best…
Sex education film The Irresponsibles. The British Film Institute’s “The Joy of Sex Education” – to be presented at London’s bfi Southbank – consists of a series of British-made sex…
Twenty-two films will be vying for the 2007 Palme d’Or once the 60th Cannes Film Festival gets under way next Wednesday, May 16. Among the 13 first-timers in the official…
The Wind That Shakes the Barley with Cillian Murphy. British-Irish Politics Wins Palme d’Or 13th-time lucky: Veteran Ken Loach’s British-Irish political drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a depiction…