2020 Venice Film Festival Awards: Nomadland, with Frances McDormand, wins Golden Lion. If recent history is any indication, Chloé Zhao’s low-budget socio-psychological road movie is about to become a North…
Child’s Pose with Luminita Gheorghiu. Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner: Child’s Pose The 2013 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, handed out earlier this evening, went to Calin Peter Netzer’s…
Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago…
Neil Patrick Harris’ Tony Awards. Neil Patrick Harris Tony Awards reach 7 million viewers Originally staged by the U.K.’s National Theatre, War Horse won the Tony Award for Best Play…
Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Gus Van Sant’s 1997 Best Picture nominee Good Will Hunting will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’…
Wonder Boys movie: Well-known and generally admired – but inadequate – actors and an overbearing directorial hand fatally thwart Curtis Hanson’s attempt to revive Hollywood’s screwball comedies of the 1930s.…