What an intense cinema moment we seem to be living through. The general public is getting as excited as the critics about movies. Here in the UK, at least, everyone seems to be making the effort to see The King’s Speech, and it is hard to find someone with a word to say against it. [...]
Amid today’s limp ’80s remakes and contrived, 3-D popcorn movies, a less-recognized genre is experiencing what some critics dub a “new wave.” Two Romanian documentaries made their world premieres at Cannes this year, including the well-received “Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,” a documentary about the late Communist dictator. Director Andrei Ujica, who fled to Germany in [...]
Although Meryl Streep has never known real obscurity in her lengthy and prestigious career, she is having something of resurgence. THR reports that the 61-year-old actress is currently in talks to play controversial British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in a biopic called “The Iron Lady.” This news comes in the wake of a stream of [...]
Against a post-dawn March sky, Cardiff’s historic Coal Exchange silently welcomed cast and crew to the set of “Casimir Effect,” a science fiction romance/thriller. In the late 1800s this site bustled with business near the city’s docks, but on the first day of filming, the venerable structure was a mere shade of its former glory. [...]
This week on Simon Mayo’s BBC radio show Mexican director, Guillermo del Toro, spilled some secrets about his upcoming films, “The Hobbit” and “Frankestein,” whether or not there will be a “Hellboy 3,” and some tidbits about his vampire novel, “The Strain.” There has been much speculation about whether “The Hobbit,” an adaptation of the [...]
Has it really come to this? Are we so out of touch with our home that the only way we can interact with nature anymore is to cram into a darkened room and stare at a glowing screen for two hours? Movies serve as a portal into the fantastic; an escape into the wondrous, strange, [...]
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The Power of Limits in The Five Obstructions
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‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
‘Leaving’: Made in Prague
A Step Forward: New African Film in Paris
Adapting to The Skin I Live In: The Antidote to Horror
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