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…
Mike Leigh to be Berlin Film Festival Jury President. No Mike Leigh film has taken home the Berlinale’s Golden Bear, but Happy-Go-Lucky was in contention in 2008, eventually earning star…
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…
Mainstream – “at best, mainstreamish” – critics group picks: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience-friendly The Kids Are All Right topped three New York Film Critics Circle award categories, including Best Actress honors…
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…
The British Academy Awards’ Oscar-focused new submission deadline rules have had unintended and ironically counterproductive consequences.
Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s socially conscious family drama Vera Drake.
Venice Festival: The Golden Lion victory of Mike Leigh’s abortion drama at the snafu-plagued Biennale has angered Italian nativists rooting for local father-son tale.
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? A violent thriller is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-focused titles are (as usual) almost completely ignored.