Those looking for hints for the upcoming Academy Awards will be disappointed with the results of the pompous-sounding Orange British Academy of Film & Television Arts. (But check out images…
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Control with Sam Riley as Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis. What are the BAFTA Awards? Don’t be fooled by the inclusion of Anton Corbijn’s low-budget Ian Curtis biopic Control in…
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Stage, film, and television actor Ulrich Mühe, winner of last year’s Best Actor European Film Award, died at age 54 on July 22 at his home in Walbeck, in the…
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Water with Lisa Ray. Set in the late 1930s, during the British occupation of India, Deepa Mehta’s Water created quite a stir during its production in that country. Spoken in…
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Romanian actress Luminita Gheorghiu in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu with Ion Fiscuteanu. The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards’ most surprising winner was veteran Romanian actress Luminita Gheorghiu, selected as…
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European Film Awards: Penélope Cruz was the Best Actress winner for Pedro Almodóvar’s unusual family comedy-drama Volver, which had previously earned Cruz – as a 21st century Anna Magnani –…
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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,…