Ralph Fiennes in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG),…
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Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman. In my very personal view, the worst thing about 1980s American moviemaking isn’t the enormous success of adolescent trash like Return of the Jedi,…
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Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper in Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. The censors at the Motion Picture Association of America and their precursors at the Production Code Office have…
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The Elite Squad with Wagner Moura. The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, José Padilha’s Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale…
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Palme d’Or winners: Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in Carol Reed’s Vienna-set thriller The Third Man. Palme d’Or winners: Cannes Film Festival 1939*: Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille) 1946**: Brief…
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Iraq War & censorship among topics of documentaries still in the running for the Academy Awards. Image: Iraq in Fragments. Blind mountain climbers, female African judges, Israel’s withdrawal from the…
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Film Awards: Free Jimmy. Norway Film Awards: Amandas The nominations for the 2005-2006 Amandas were announced on June 28. The winners of the 2005–2006 Amandas were announced on Aug. 18,…
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Personal and political realms are inexorably intertwined in the Chilean coming-of-age drama Machuca, set at the time of that country’s 1973 military coup.
Screenwriter, director, and producer Costa-Gavras, 74, never one to shy away from inflammatory themes, will be honored with the second-ever Eisenstein Award handed out by the University of Southern California’s…
Movie festival news from around the world cover big-screen events from New York’s Tribeca to the century’s ‘biggest’ French cinema retrospective in Beijing.