Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. The European Film Academy (EFA) Awards’ Best Film winner, Melancholia tells the story of two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg) as one of them is about…
The Queen with Helen Mirren and James Cromwell. A more sober tone would have made Stephen Frears’ filmization of Peter Morgan’s The Queen screenplay less appealing to a mass audience.…
Mrs Henderson Presents with Bob Hoskins and Judi Dench. Directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Martin Sherman, Mrs Henderson Presents is an unabashedly old-fashioned star vehicle for Judi Dench,…
The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper,…
Camino with Carmen Elias: Controversial Opus Dei drama. Goya Award winners Written and directed by Javier Fesser, the controversial drama Camino – described by Screen Daily‘s Lee Marshall as a…
Dangerous Liaisons with Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Next in line in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series is Stephen Frears’…
Pan’s Labyrinth with Doug Jones as the Faun. Whereas Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver received on single Academy Award nomination – Penélope Cruz is up for Best Actress – Guillermo del Toro’s…
Brad Pitt in Babel. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association members suffer from congenital star-struck disease; hence, it’s no surprise that Brad Pitt is a Best Supporting Actor contender for his…
For the first time in the history of the Venice Film Festival, all films competing for the 2006 Golden Lion will have their world premiere at the festival, which opens…