‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements have been instituted for the Academy Awards’ Best Picture category. These consist of hiring and representation demands of debatable effectiveness.
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2016 Movies: Isabelle Huppert as the year’s Emmanuelle Riva while widely acclaimed gay film among NSFC winners plus honoring cinema’s black pioneers.
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Catherine Deneuve: César Award Best Actress Record-Tier after her latest nomination. Article includes list of rare Anglophone César nominees.
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Golden Globes: Meryl Streep Breaks Own Record while Marion Cotillard Performs Rare Feat and HFPA totally bypasses widely praised starless indie.
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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 …
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Luca Argentero and Matthew Macfadyen, Jennifer Lopez and Husband Marc Anthony: Cannes party honors Martin Scorsese but few sales.
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The White Ribbon movie rare triple European Film Awards win + Kate Winslet shows EFA must change eligibility rules + Aborigine drama tops Australian Oscars.
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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 …
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Colin Firth and Nicholas Hoult: Gay drama was Venice Film Festival Queer Lion winner also with Matthew Goode, Tom Ford at premiere.
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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 …
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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 …
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Me and My Sister (movie 2004) review: Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Frot are in top form as psychotic siblings in Alexandra Leclère’s humorous and unsettling family tale.
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I Heart Huckabees (2004) review: David O. Russell’s all-star satire is all but unwatchable, as its compelling moments 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 …