Andrew Sarris, auteur theory proponent in the U.S., died earlier today at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, apparently of complications caused by a stomach virus. Sarris, who was 83, was…
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My Night at Maud’s with Françoise Fabian and Antoine Vitez: Eric Rohmer classic. To watch an Eric Rohmer film is to watch life unfold on the screen. I’m not sure…
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Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the…
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Jocelyn Quivrin, Bénabar in Incognito Jocelyn Quivrin, the French Academy’s César winner for most promising newcomer in 2008, died after losing control of his sports car while driving in a…
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Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the…
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Tonight begins the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s series “The Tales of Eric Rohmer,” which will screen eleven of the veteran filmmaker’s films every weekend until September 27. Of…
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Abortion Movie is Best Foreign Language Film Oscar most mind-boggling upset though inclusion of Kazakhstan entry is another head-scratcher.
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Lust Caution: Sex scenes fail to offend Venice Film Festival jury. Yesterday, surprising many prognosticators, the controversial, near-sexually explicit spy thriller Se, Ji / Lust, Caution earned Ang Lee his…
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This past June 14, one of the world’s top directors of the last 25 years, Pedro Almodóvar, was presented with the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of…
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I Think I Love My Wife (movie 2007) review: Chris Rock directed, wrote and stars in this dismal failure as both comedy and social commentary. Kerry Washington costars.
In Emmanuel Mouret’s quietly observant Un baiser s’il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, “A Kiss, If You Please”), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple,…
Critical Thinking and Oscar Influence: Can a correlation be attested throughout the years? Are American critics’ favorites Academy Award frontrunners?