Last Chance Harvey with Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman. Screenwriter-director Joel Hopkins’ Anglo-American co-production Last Chance Harvey will open the 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy stars two-time…
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Kate Winslet in The Reader. Double Golden Globe nominee Kate Winslet is in the running as Best Actress - Drama for her performance as Leonardo DiCaprio’s dissatisfied suburban housewife in…
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Wong Kar-Wai (image: Mattias Lindbäck ) Screenwriter-director Courtney Hunt’s immigrant smuggling drama Frozen River takes place in the days before Christmas near a border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New…
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Most shocking movie moments: Charles Chaplin goes murderous in the dark comedy-drama Monsieur Verdoux, with Martha Raye. Most shocking movie moments: Martha Raye eclipses murderous Charles Chaplin in ‘Monsieur Verdoux’ In The…
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National Board of Review Best Film winner Letters from Iwo Jima, with Ken Watanabe. Clint Eastwood’s accompanying piece to Flags of Our Fathers shows the battle of Iwo Jima from…
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Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Don Siegel Movies: From Alien Pods to Clint Eastwood From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum (website) will be screening a…
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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
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Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.
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Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood have performed an unexpected Golden Globes turnabout, while Hilary Swank and Annette Bening have an awards season rematch ‘tie.’
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Awards season news: In an ungodly twist of fate, Jesus + Jason + Napoleon have all lost out to Spider-Man, while Kate Winslet has nabbed a surprise win.
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A superlative Hilary Swank can’t beat the odds against Clint Eastwood’s cliché-ridden boxing + surrogate father-daughter melo Million Dollar Baby.
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A crowd-pleasing Wine Country movie and an polemical political documentary are American critics’ top selections this awards season.
Ennio Morricone began his prolific film scoring career when he was in his early 30s. Among his best-known compositions are those for Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the…
The winners of the various Guild Awards’: Season’s curious Best Director and Best Film bifurcation continues and thus further complicates this year’s Oscar predictions.
NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.
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