European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award: Award-less veteran actress Danielle Darrieux. European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Only three female recipients to date As mentioned in the previous post, French…
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Marie-France Pisier in The Other Side of Midnight (top); Pisier with Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut’s Love at Twenty segment “Antoine and Colette” (bottom) Marie-France Pisier, best-known internationally as one…
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The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke. Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are: Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best…
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Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie: European Film Awards honor. Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European…
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The Elite Squad with Wagner Moura. The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, José Padilha’s Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale…
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4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days with Anamaria Marinca: Oscars’ abortion movie snub. Cristian Mungiu’s enthusiastically received, Palme d’Or-winning abortion movie 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days was…
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Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar: Best-known Spanish film director According to a poll conducted by the Spanish-based SigmaDos, Pedro Almodóvar is the best-known modern-day Spanish film director in his home country,…
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There weren’t many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year’s favorites, Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana…
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Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s…
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The WWII-era Katyn massacre is the topic of Andrzej Wajda’s next project + Criterion’s ‘3 War Films’ DVD includes the classic Ashes and Diamonds.
Agnieszka Holland Movies: Controversial Polish Filmmaker Retrospective at MoMA with screening of Best Actress Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland in Anna.
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…