In the Fade with Diane Kruger: Fatih Akin’s Avenging Woman drama may give its German-speaking star the chance to become next awards season’s Isabelle Huppert. Diane Kruger: 2017–2018 awards season’s Isabelle Huppert? (See previous post: “Cannes Film Festival Winners vs. Oscar Nominations.”) The Cannes Film…
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Oscar watch: Fruitvale Station with Michael B. Jordan. Oscar watch: Cannes is Harvey Weinstein’s Academy Awards preview show Harvey Weinstein’s Cannes Film Festival Coming Attractions Special, a showcase of upcoming The Weinstein Company releases, is now regarded as one of the Croisette’s key film events.…
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Daniel Radcliffe: Horns. Daniel Radcliffe ‘Horns’: ‘Equus’ to Capricorn Daniel Radcliffe has gone from Equus to Capricorn – or from horn-rimmed glasses to horns, period (apologies for the horrible pun) – in Horns, Alexandre Aja’s film adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel about a young man,…
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Somewhere movie with Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere movie, hardly a unanimous critical hit (see further below), was the unanimous Golden Lion winner at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Coppola’s fellow Italian-American filmmaker – and former boyfriend – Quentin Tarantino headed the…
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Highest grossing comedy movie ever? Jay Roach’s Meet the Fockers stars Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, and Teri Polo (all seen above), plus Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman; it’s also supposed to be the “highest grossing comedy” (live action) ever made. But ……