2016 movies Things to Come (pictured) and Elle have earned French cinema icon Isabelle Huppert her – surprisingly – very first National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Award. 2016…
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Park Chan-wook’s technically accomplished thriller Stoker suffers from a problematic narrative. Matthew Goode and Nicole Kidman star.
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Mother with Kim Hye-ja. The Blue Dragon Film Awards’ Best Korean Film (and Best Foreign Film Spirit Award nominee), Bong Joon-ho’s Mother strangely ended up taking home only two other…
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Cannes Film Festival winner ‘The White Ribbon,’ directed by Michael Haneke. One of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival’s clear favorites, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, a stark tale about a…
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Asian Film Awards nominations The nominees for the 1st Asian Film Awards were unveiled on Jan. 29. The awards ceremony, to be held on March 20, will open the 31st…
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Hidden movie director-screenwriter Michael Haneke was the European Film Awards’ Best Director for his disturbing psychological-political thriller starring Best European Actor winner Daniel Auteuil as the embodiment of the guilt-ridden…
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Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, the story of two male sheepherders who fall madly in love, was the winner of the Golden Lion at the 62nd Venice Film Festival. The competition’s…
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The Golden Horse Awards’ surprise Best Film is an environmentally conscious Tibet-set ‘Western’ that beat an all-star international hit directed by Wong Kar-Wai.
Wong Kar-Wai (image: Mattias Lindbäck ) Screenwriter-director Courtney Hunt’s immigrant smuggling drama Frozen River takes place in the days before Christmas near a border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New…
Stephen Chow’s blockbuster action-comedy has beaten Wong Kar-Wai international hit while strangely failing to top direction and screenplay at Hong Kong Film Awards.