The Academy has instituted Best Picture hiring and representation ‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements whose goals and potential effectiveness are debatable.
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Frot are in top form as psychotic siblings in Alexandra Leclère’s humorous and unsettling Paris-set family movie Me and My Sister.
The all-star ‘existential’ David O. Russell satire I Heart Huckabees is all but unwatchable; its notable moments actually took place behind the scenes.
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…
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…
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…