The Great Wall (movie 2016) review: Matt Damon and Zhang Yimou’s Sino-American monster thriller gives globalization a bad name. Also in the cast: Jing Tian and Pedro Pascal.
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3D technology on film: Avatar and the world of Pandora. 3D technology at the movies: “Getting Perspective III” Academy panel series 3D technology at the movies was a sensation back …
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German Film Awards: The White Ribbon. The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s depiction of rural Germany on the eve of World War I – and how the cute (if dangerous) little …
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Zhang Yimou and John Woo Honorary Awards + Air Disaster Drama starring Ken Watanabe Tops Japanese Academy Award Nominations.
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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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Nuovomondo / Golden Door with Charlotte Gainsbourg. International gay characters + Bosnian War: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar hopefuls Fifty years after the creation of the Best Foreign Language Film …
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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.
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NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr has publicly derided the Academy Awards’ arcane Best Foreign Language Film rules that keep prestigious work out of the running.
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Critics’ favorites: A crowd-pleasing Wine Country road movie and a polemical political documentary are the top selections this awards season, while Imelda Staunton is the Best Actress fave.
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This year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entries stem from 49 countries, but two internationally acclaimed Gael García Bernal movies have ended up as Academy Award orphans.
Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the …
The winners of the various Guild Awards’: Season’s curious Best Director and Best Film bifurcation continues and thus further complicates this year’s Oscar predictions.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Alexander Payne’s California-set road movie Sideways was the big winner. Imelda Staunton and Liam Neeson topped the acting categories.