The 2008 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which runs until Oct. 26, is spotlighting “Homo Horror” flicks. No, those are not a series of Christian (or Muslim or Jewish…
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School film The Class. School film wins Palme d’Or: French drama ‘The Class’ Laurent Cantet’s “school film” The Class was the Palme d’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,…
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Dennis Lim in the New York Times: “When referring to the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, it is now – and has been for some time – customary to affix…
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Catherine Deneuve with Ludivine Sagnier, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, Firmine Richard, Emmanuelle Béart in François Ozon’s off-kilter musical-comedy-drama-murder-mystery-lesbian-sex campfest 8 Women. The all-female cast shared best actress honors…
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‘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…
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I was in mid-teens when I first watched Edouard Molinaro’s 1978 film adaptation of La Cage aux folles. I found it hilarious; surely one of the best comedies I’d ever…
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Gay kiss: Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don’t Cry (top); Eduardo Noriega and Leonardo Sbaraglia in Burnt Money (bottom). The most famous – and most effective – sequence in Giuseppe…
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Best Director Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Leonardo DiCaprio at the DGA Awards. © DGA. Well on his way to his first Academy Award, last night Martin Scorsese received the…
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Nathalie Baye & Juan Diego Top San Sebastian Film Festival Awards 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 21–30. At a awards ceremony yesterday, Sept. 30, the 54th Donostia-San Sebastian Film…
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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…
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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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Annette Stroyberg: Les Liaisons Dangereuses actress was Brigitte Bardot follow-up playing sex-kitten roles in a couple of husband Roger Vadim films.
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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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Set to open the Berlin Film Festival, Régis Wargnier’s ‘missing link movie’ starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Joseph Fiennes focuses on ‘science-based’ racism.
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French film stars Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche among celebrities offering support for hostages being held in Iraq. Also: Iranian filmmaker hospitalized after arrest.
San Sebastian Film Festival winner: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Wayne Wang’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the Golden Shell for Best Film at this year’s edition…
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…
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…
Sean Connery: Shirtless James Bond. Sean Connery to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Sean Connery, best known for being the big screen’s first James Bond, will receive the…
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