Edouard Molinaro: La Cage aux Folles’ Oscar-nominated filmmaker. La Cage aux Folles director Edouard Molinaro collaborated with Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau & Orson Welles Edouard Molinaro, best known internationally for…
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
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Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
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Jan Troell & Harriet Andersson Swedish Oscars Honor + German Terrorists & Oskar Schindler of Nanking
Jan Troell Swedish Oscars honor: Best Film Guldbagge Award winner Everlasting Moments with Maria Heiskanen. A feature film director since the mid-1960s (Here’s Your Life, Ole dole doff), Jan Troell –…
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Cries and Whispers. Ingmar Bergman (right) will be the subject of a weekend-long salute – with the screening of five of his Academy Award-nominated and winning films – beginning Friday,…
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Manoel de Oliveira, Jeanne Moreau, and Liv Ullmann at the European Film Awards. Veteran Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, 99 years old next Dec. 11, was the recipient of the…
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Michelangelo Antonioni, the film master of modern alienation, despair, and ennui, was the third important personage of world cinema to die in the last three days – Ingmar Bergman and…
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Fanny and Alexander: Bertil Guve and Pernilla Allwin are the two young leads in Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 classic that earned the veteran filmmaker his third and last Best Director Oscar…
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster. Luis Buñuel’s surrealist, anarchist, insurrectionist 1972 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner features an ensemble that includes Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel,…
Alfred Hitchcock classic: Mount Rushmore scene with Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959), a sort of The 39 Steps reboot that boasted Oscar-nominated art direction…
Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song, the 1982 period family drama Fanny and Alexander is even more engrossing in its longer form.