Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria…
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Lula, The Son of Brazil: Mother Glória Pires and her seven children, including Felipe Falanga (yellow shirt) as the boy Lula Unanimity isn’t what it used to be. First, Quentin…
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White couple, black baby: Sophie Okonedo as black daughter of white parents in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin…
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Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie: European Film Awards honor. Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European…
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François Cluzet in Tell No One. Several weeks ago, I chatted with actor-director-screenwriter Guillaume Canet, 35, at a West Hollywood hotel where Canet was promoting his romantic thriller Tell No…
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Lady Chatterley with Marina Hands. Perhaps there’s hope for this evening’s Oscar ceremony. On Saturday, I watched (most of) the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences’ 32nd César du…
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European Film Award Winners Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar though spy drama Is Top Pick while Roman Polanski gets Lifetime Achievement Award.
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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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Piano-playing gangster Romain Duris and piano teacher Linh Dan Pham in The Beat That My Heart Skipped. César Awards Jacques Audiard’s curious but uninvolving psychological drama De battre, mon coeur…
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Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s…
After Winter Comes Spring: Movies Celebrating Fall of the Berlin Wall + Star-Studded Sundance and Bruce LaBruce retrospective with lots of sex and anarchy.
The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen: German Stasi spy drama. Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, about the relationship between two young women and the ghost of their dead mother,…