The Academy has instituted Best Picture hiring and representation ‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements whose goals and potential effectiveness are debatable.
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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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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.
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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…