It's the only one of the three major European festivals he hasn't won gold at, but the Berlin Film Festival is also the first to tap leading British director Mike Leigh as their jury president.
Posted on Friday, Dec 2, 2011
The director of such offbeat British classics as "Performance," "Don't Look Now" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" will receive the group's Dilys Powell Award for contribution to British cinema.
Posted on Friday, Dec 2, 2011
The Satellite Awards don't get much respect on the precursor beat, but it's hard not to be a little tickled by a nominee list that is jointly led, with seven nods apiece, by two films at such opposite ends of the bait spectrum.
Posted on Friday, Dec 2, 2011
The Grammy race for Best Song Written for Visual Media highlights three eligible compositions I hadn't really thought to include in my predictions, including songs from "Footloose" and "Winnie the Pooh."
Posted on Thursday, Dec 1, 2011
Kenneth Lonergan's long-delayed sophomore "Margaret" has emerged from nightmarish post-production difficulties to emerge as one of the year's very best films, but distributor Fox Searchlight isn't even sending out awards screeners for the little-seen title. A critic-led online petition is hoping to change that.
Posted on Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
Meryl Streep's turn as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" is already winning awards, but as the film's politics come into question, the actress claims it is, to some extent, a work of fiction.
Posted on Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
With "The Artist," "Hugo" and "My Week With Marilyn" all released this month, nostalgia for the old-fashioned nuts and bolts of moviemaking would appear to be one of the season's dominant themes. We join in with 10 of the best films about the business, including the likes of "A Star is Born," "Mulholland Drive" and "8½."
Posted on Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
Back in July, I had the rare privilege of seeing Ken Russell's grandly insane 1971 film "The Devils" in all its restored glory on the big screen -- little knowing the director soon would be returning to the conversation for sadder reasons.
Posted on Monday, Nov 28, 2011
Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" was named the year's best film by a comfortable majority in Sight & Sound magazine's poll of 100 international critics. Does this bode well for upcoming critics' awards?
Posted on Monday, Nov 28, 2011
The sinister Guy Fawkes mask from "V for Vendetta" -- both the graphic novel and the film -- has recently been re-appropriated as a symbol of protest by political and environmental demonstrators, and its creator, Alan Moore, is pleased with that.
Posted on Monday, Nov 28, 2011
