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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Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s socially conscious family drama Vera Drake.
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Venice Festival: The Golden Lion going to Mike Leigh’s British-made abortion drama Vera Drake has angered Italian nativists rooting for Gianni Amelio’s The Keys to the House.
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, Mike Hodges’ violent thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-focused titles are completely absent.