Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die Paolo Taviani, 80, and Vittorio Taviani, 82, were the big winners at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. The Taviani brothers’ documentary Cesare deve …
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Mike Leigh vs Isabelle Adjani: Berlin Film Festival getting ‘Outspoken’ President with no qualms about badmouthing 2-time Best Actress Oscar nominee.
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Director Christopher Nolan bypassed for the Academy Awards: Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy. Despite the box office success of the sci-fier/thriller Inception, Christopher Nolan was snubbed once again …
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Mainstream group choices: New York Film Critics opt for Establishment fare from inspirational king biopic to crowd-pleasing lesbian family comedy-drama.
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Silvio Berlusconi corruption. “Spring had just begun along the beautiful peninsula and they were after Berlusconi. It was a shitty day like so many others …” the narrator explains in …
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The British Academy Awards’ Oscar-focused new submission deadline rules have had unintended and ironically counterproductive consequences.
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Vera Drake (movie 2004) review: Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s uneven socially conscious family drama.
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Venice Festival awards: The Golden Lion went to the British abortion drama Vera Drake, angering Italian nativists rooting for a local Gianni Amelio drama starring Kim Rossi Stuart.
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 …
What are the best British films of all time? Starring Michael Caine, the violent 1971 thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-centered titles are completely absent.