Multicultural movies: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entries include Irish-Cuban tale Viva, with Héctor Medina. Multicultural movies & the Oscars Nearly ten years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
Life: Robert Pattinson stars as photographer Dennis Stock. Robert Pattinson ‘Life’: Pattinson to play James Dean photographer and travel companion Dennis Stock Robert Pattinson is keeping himself busy. Pattinson is…
Peyman Moaadi Kristen Stewart movie Camp X-Ray reportedly gets leading man: Peyman Moaadi June 24 update: Two Kristen Stewart movie projects were announced a couple of weeks ago: Olivier Assayas’…
Lauren Bacall, Mimi Rogers in Barbra Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces (bottom) In her 2005 autobiography By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall’s updated version of her 1978 bestseller…
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that…
Outside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law…
Claudia Cardinale: Screen legend at Cannes Film Festival. Claudia Cardinale: The Leopard premiere at Cannes Claudia Cardinale arrives at the premiere of the new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 Palme…
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…
AFI FEST: Joanna Cassidy & Julia Ormond + Meryl Streep & Amy Adams ‘Doubt’ Premiere AFI FEST 2008 opening night premiere of Miramax Films’ Doubt held at ArcLight Hollywood on…
Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for directing The English Patient (above, 1996), died today, March 18, at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was 54. “It was a very…
Hidden / Caché with Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil. Michael Haneke’s violent, profoundly disturbing sociopolitical-psychological drama has been one of the U.S. film critics’ favorites this awards season. Michael Haneke’s…
French film producer René Cleitman’s prestigious credits include Cyrano de Bergerac and several Prix César and Oscar-nominated titles.
Three French film stars offer support for Iraq hostages + Iranian director hospitalized after Moral Police arrest + Tony Kushner joins Spielberg project.
Natalie Portman in Black Swan. Natalie Portman stars in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a mix of madness, sex, gore, and ballet that opened the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Reviewers have…
The Hurt Locker with Guy Pearce and Brian Geraghty. After being all but ignored at this year’s Venice Film Festival and at the 2008 Spirit Awards – where it received…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s sublime 1993 psychological drama Three Colors: Blue provides Juliette Binoche with one of the best roles of her career.