2016 movies Things to Come (pictured) and Elle have earned French cinema icon Isabelle Huppert her – surprisingly – very first National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Award. 2016 Movies: Isabelle Huppert & ‘Moonlight’ among National Society of Film Critics’ top picks Earlier today…
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Catherine Deneuve: Best Actress César Award ‘record-tier’ for ‘In the Courtyard,’ with Oleg Kupchik and Big Dog. Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier (See previous post: “Kristen Stewart & Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.”) Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César Award…
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Meryl Streep in Hope Springs. In movies since the late 1970s – she was first seen in a small role in Fred Zinnemann’s Julia (1977) – Meryl Streep seems to get at least one annual Golden Globe nomination. This year, her performance as a middle-aged…
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Maps to the Stars for Robert Pattinson / David Cronenberg? Above, Pattinson in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (Paul Giamatti in background) Robert Pattinson hates Twilight, according to those who have taken seriously his (jokingly) dismissive take on the movie series that has made him world famous. Anyhow,…
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First lesbian kiss? Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go for it in Passion. Rachel McAdams kisses Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime d’amour / Love Crime. McAdams replaces Kristin Scott Thomas; Rapace replaces Ludivine Sagnier in this…
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Luca Argentero and Myriam Catania: Martin Scorsese party at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Luca Argentero and Myriam Catania: Martin Scorsese party at Cannes Film Festival Model and David di Donatello nominee Luca Argentero and actress Myriam Catania attend the Vanity Fair and Gucci party…
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Michael Haneke at the European Film Awards: The White Ribbon movie manages rare triple win. The Munich-born screenwriter-director (March 24, 1942) was the big winner at this year’s ceremony, as his psychological/political drama The White Ribbon topped the Best European Film, Best European Director, and…
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Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie: European Film Awards honor. Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema. She’s only the third woman to be so honored in this…
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Actors Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Adjani, and Elsa Zylberstein; filmmakers Danièle Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Jordan, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, and Mike Nichols; formerly persecuted writer Salman Rushdie; author Milan Kundera; and stylist Diane von Furstenberg are among those who have signed another petition…
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Colin Firth, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode. Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Matthew Goode: ‘A Single Man’ at the Venice Film Festival Actors Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, and Nicholas Hoult, along with fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford, are pictured above at…
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Laura Neiva in Adrift. Cannes review snippets At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: “I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known…
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Academy’s Sound Effects Film Series On Saturday, April 28, the Academy’s Science and Technology Council will launch its “Sound, Camera, Action!” series at the Linwood Dunn Theater with a screening of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 all-star racing-car melodrama Grand Prix. “Sound, Camera, Action!” will highlight eight…
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Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. The 25-movie series begins somewhat inauspiciously on October 18 with the…
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Me and My Sister with Catherine Frot and Isabelle Huppert. ‘Me and My Sister’: Isabelle Huppert & Catherine Frot superb in dysfunctional siblings comedy-drama Me and My Sister / Les Soeurs fâchées, writer-director Alexandra Leclère’s feature-film debut, is a tad overlong and a little too schizophrenic…
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I Heart Huckabees with Jude Law and Naomi Watts. Unfortunately for audiences, despite all the on-screen talent – the I Heart Huckabees cast also includes Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Tippi Hedren, Talia Shire – the truly gripping goings-on in David O. Russell’s messy,…