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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the British Board of Film Classification from granting Michael Winterbottom’s romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating. Some are outraged.
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…