Michel Galabru dead: La Cage aux Folles right-wing politician and César Winner was embodiment of ‘family values’ in international blockbuster.
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Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier after her latest nomination. Article includes list of rare Anglophone César nominees.
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The Conspirator box office: Director Robert Redford’s tepidly received historical drama is a commercial flop in the U.S. and elsewhere. James McAvoy and Robin Wright star.
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Catherine Deneuve & Roman Polanski: César Awards’ Nominations Best Film HEARTBREAKER produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, directed by Pascal Chaumeil OF GODS AND MEN produced by …
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Silvio Berlusconi corruption. “Spring had just begun along the beautiful peninsula and they were after Berlusconi. It was a shitty day like so many others …” the narrator explains in …
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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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List of individuals who have signed (as of Oct. 7) the “Free Roman Polanski” petition organized by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD): Michael A. Russ Erika Abrams, …
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“Yellow face” in Hollywood movies: Paul Muni is a Jewish-Austrian-Hungarian Chinese in The Good Earth. Today it’d have been simpler. Muni would have been merely a Jewish-Ukrainian Chinese. Hollywood Chinese, …
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Philippe Noiret. Philippe Noiret: ‘Cinema Paradiso’ & ‘The Postman’ actor dead at 76 Veteran actor Philippe Noiret, whose movie credits include Cinema Paradiso, The Postman, and the controversial Blow-Out, died …
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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 …
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that …
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman in Billy Wilder’s 1945 drama The Lost Weekend (bottom). The first and last best picture Oscar winners by way of the preferential voting system. The winner …
French film producer René Cleitman’s prestigious credits include Cyrano de Bergerac and several Prix César and Oscar-nominated titles.