Complete List Of 86th Academy Award Nominations

Best Picture “American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers “Captain Phillips” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers “Dallas Buyers Club” Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers “Gravity” Alfonso...

Sundance 2014

Arthouse Convergence headed up by Russ Collins kicked off this week and sadly, we missed the explosion of attendees gathered in Utah’s beautiful Heber Valley to discuss the issues facing independent art houses and hear keynote speeches by Leonard Maltin, Betty...

Kiarostami’s CERTIFIED COPY

Startlingly fluid, beautiful and funny in light and unexpected ways, CERTIFIED COPY bears a startling resemblance to Linklater’s BEFORE SUNSET.  Kiarostami is in an elegant wistful elegiac frame of mind here.   The love he feels for Italian art, food, and the...

Cannes – Day 3

A view of the Palais red stairs before the madness begins on day 3. The cast and crew of Cristi Puiu’s “Aurora” assembles on the Debussy stage with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux. (Very tiny, for sure; this IPhone lacks telephoto.)...

STORY OF A DAY review

Marking a breakthrough for Venezuelan filmmaking, Rosana Matecki’s “Story of a Day” is an “inventive, impassioned and striking paean to the lives of the rural poor,” Robert Koehler reviews at the Guadalajara Film Festival. “Rather than a variation on a...