2020 Venice Film Festival Awards: Nomadland, with Frances McDormand, wins Golden Lion. If recent history is any indication, Chloé Zhao’s low-budget socio-psychological road movie is about to become a North…
Ralph Fiennes in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG),…
Mike Leigh to be Berlin Film Festival Jury President. No Mike Leigh film has taken home the Berlinale’s Golden Bear, but Happy-Go-Lucky was in contention in 2008, eventually earning star…
Fetish Festival: Featured movies include Modern Love Is Automatic by Zach Clark (top); The Pawn Layman by Frank-Peter Lenze (bottom). Kiel’s Fetish Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 29-31 at…
Marc-André Grondin in C.R.A.Z.Y. C.R.A.Z.Y. movie tops Genie Awards “I’m touched. This has been something – a crazy experience,” remarked C.R.A.Z.Y. filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the Academy of Canadian…
Vera Drake with Imelda Staunton. Vera Drake (2004) movie review: At the center of Mike Leigh’s family/socially conscious drama, Imelda Staunton delivers a phenomenal performance as a do-gooding wife and…
Movie festival news from around the world: Starring Joan Allen and Simon Abkarian, and featuring dialogue in iambic pentameter, Sally Potter’s romantic drama Yes is one of dozens of titles…
Based on real-life events, Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia drama and the Goya Awards’ record-breaker The Sea Inside revolves around a tetraplegic man’s fight to end his own life. The box office…
One of several British Academy Awards “casualties,” Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s sweeping World War I drama A Very Long Engagement received one single BAFTA nomination – in the ghettoized Best Foreign Language…
The NSFC Awards’ surprisingly mainstream winner, Clint Eastwood’s maudlin boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby is unlike most of the group’s recent Best Film selections – e.g., American Splendor, Mulholland Dr.,…
Culture clash movies have dominated this year’s socially conscious European Film Awards: Fatih Akin’s German-Turkish drama Head-On was named Best European Film, while euthanasia and abortion dramas topped the acting…
Venice Festival: Starring Imelda Staunton as a one-woman abortion clinic in 1950s England, Mike Leigh’s abortion drama Vera Drake was this year’s Golden Lion winner; Staunton took home the Best…