Multicultural movies: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entries include Irish-Cuban tale Viva, with Héctor Medina. Multicultural movies & the Oscars Nearly ten years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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’…
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…
Les Misérables with Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried. In Tom Hooper’s film version of the international stage musical hit based on Victor Hugo’s early-19th-century-set classic novel about the long &…
Farley Granger shirtless publicity shot ca. late 1940s. A Samuel Goldwyn discovery, dark and handsome Farley Granger might have become a bigger star had he not been under contract to…
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…
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…
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…
Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham and director Jaco van Dormael: The curious case of ‘Mr. Nobody’ talent. ‘Mr Nobody’ director Jaco van Dormael and actors Jared…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. One of the film world’s personalities seen in this year’s “TCM Remembers” video homage, Tura Satana owes her cult fame to one single…
Claudia Cardinale: Screen legend at Cannes Film Festival. Claudia Cardinale: The Leopard premiere at Cannes Claudia Cardinale arrives at the premiere of the new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 Palme…
‘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 director-screenwriter Michael Haneke was the European Film Awards’ Best Director for his disturbing psychological-political thriller starring Best European Actor winner Daniel Auteuil as the embodiment of the guilt-ridden…