Oscar-nominated actress Susan Tyrrell remembered Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrrell – for the 1972 drama Fat City – died at age 67 on June 17. In John …
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Roman Polanski’s Carnage with Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly. What do Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, George Clooney, Todd Solondz, Tomas Alfredson, and Madonna have in …
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Lene Maria Christensen and Johan Philip Asbæk (a.k.a. Pilou Asbæk) in A Family (Zentropa / Rolf Konow). Also of note at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival are Michael Winterbottom’s violent …
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Sundance movies: Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics. As usual, the upcoming Sundance Film Festival will screen numerous world premieres; one of them is writer-director Galt Niederhoffer’s The …
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Venus with Peter O’Toole and Jodie Whittaker. There were numerous surprises at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) ceremony, which was held yesterday, Nov. 29, in West London. Out …
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Nathalie Baye & Juan Diego Top San Sebastian Film Festival Awards 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 21–30. At a awards ceremony yesterday, Sept. 30, the 54th Donostia-San Sebastian Film …
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The Road to Guantanamo. In Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ docudrama The Road to Guantanamo, you won’t find the trio Bing Crosby-Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour making merry with the natives of …
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Movie festival news from around the world cover big-screen events from New York’s Tribeca to the century’s ‘biggest’ French cinema retrospective in Beijing.
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Michael Winterbottom’s sexually explicit movie 9 Songs has been approved for release in Australia – uncut. Kieran O’Brien and Margot Stilley play lovers and rock concert aficionados.
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9 Songs’ explicit sex scenes have not prevented the British Board of Film Classification from granting Michael Winterbottom’s drama an ’18 certificate.’
The winner of the Teddy Award for best film with a gay/lesbian/bi/transgendered lead/theme, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela chronicles the day-to-day fantasies and …
There weren’t many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year’s favorites, Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana …