Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Submissions: Multicultural and Multinational movies as Academy more open-minded re: international cinema.
Annie Girardot
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Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Jessica Rabbit, voiced by Kathleen Turner Bob Hoskins dead at 71: Hoskins’ best movies included ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ & ‘Mona Lisa’ …
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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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Les Misérables Reviews: Mixed views on maximalist Approach to Killer Pipes but Anne Hathaway singing sobbing Fantine total shoo-in Oscar contender.
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TCM Remembers: From Hitchcock leading man Farley Granger and European stars Annie Girardot and Googie Withers to 2 notorious sex film actresses.
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Actress Paulette Dubost, known as the “Dean of French Cinema,” and a performer in films directed by Jean Renoir, Marcel L’Herbier, Jacques Tourneur, Julien Duvivier, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, François …
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Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria …
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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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Jared Leto, Sarah Polley and Diane Kruger: The curious case of Mr. Nobody with Jaco van Dormael and Linh-Dan Pham.
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“I’m the last survivor of one section of the history of French cinema,” director-screenwriter Jean Delannoy declared in 2004. The “last survivor” died yesterday, June 18, at his home in …
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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 …
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Alida Valli – Part I Valli looked considerably older, her features hardened, when she resumed her career in 1957. That year, she appeared in three productions: Glauco Pellegrini’s Spanish-Italian L’Amore …
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Piano-playing gangster Romain Duris and piano teacher Linh Dan Pham in The Beat That My Heart Skipped. César Awards Jacques Audiard’s curious but uninvolving psychological drama De battre, mon coeur …
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Hidden / Caché with Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil. Michael Haneke’s violent, profoundly disturbing sociopolitical-psychological drama has been one of the U.S. film critics’ favorites this awards season. Michael Haneke’s …
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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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Suzanne Flon: Actress collaborated with Claude Autant-Lara + John Huston + Orson Welles Suzanne Flon, a renowned stage and screen actress who was featured in more than 50 movies, died …
Tura Satana + Cliff Robertson and the 2 Russells + a quartet of child actors: TCM pays homage to eclectic array of recently deceased film world luminaries.
Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon plus Claudia Cardinale & Alain Delon + Meg Ryan & Pilar López de Ayala: Cannes Film Festival images.
‘Buddha’ quotes: Adolescent filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf discusses ‘Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame’ at San Sebastian Film Festival “As an 18-year-old girl who lives in Iran today and who faces very …
Hidden movie + James Bond actor Sean Connery and David Lean composer Maurice Jarre: Michael Haneke political thriller tops European Film Awards winners.