Vincent Cassel

Keira Knightley: Sexually Dangerous

Posted 10.31.2011

Oscar, paging Keira Knightley. Keira Knightley, Oscar is paging you. A year after Natalie Portman took home the Academy Award for portraying a sex-...

PHOTOS: It's Bastille Day! Check Out Our Favorite Frenchies

Posted 09.13.2011

From freedom fries to the Statue de la Liberte, the French are more than generous with their American friends. But our most prized French possessions ...

Keira Knightley's Psycho Drama

Posted 09.02.2011

And here come the Oscar contenders. Deep into a summer of superhero blockbusters and romantic comedies, the first trailers for the year's dramatic ...

(R)evolution in Film: Black Swan

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Lisa Paul Streitfeld

Female artists are generally incensed by the portrayal of female sexuality in Black Swan, often asking, "Why does a woman still need to use her sexuality to move ahead in her career?"

Director Darren Aronofsky Brings Black Swan to Life and Reveals His Dreams and Nightmares

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Balfour

While there are many great films targeted for awards this season, the buzz film that stirs the most emotional reaction, of shock or a cringe has been ...

Black Swan: A Mayor Koch Review

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

Ed Koch

I hope I will not be thought of as a coarse Philistine for not praising this film. I confess that I am not a devotee of the ballet; indeed, I have att...

Black Swan: A Must See Even if Ballet Ain't Your Thing

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Russnow

Black Swan is wrapped together in a wonderful package by director Darren Aronofsky to such an extent that you are gripped from almost the beginning right until the captivating end.

Michael Vick, Black Swan, and David Foster Wallace: An Act in Three Acts

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Zac Hill

And what do we do with the worst parts of ourselves? We lose them. And we live.

BLOGWATCH> Black Swan Movie Posters You May Not Have Seen, On BOOOOOOOM

La Boca | Posted 05.25.2011

Beautiful posters for "Black Swan" by London-based La Boca....

Vincent Cassel: A Q&A With the Black Swan Star

Thelma Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Thelma Adams

Vincent Cassel and I sat down to discuss his domineering ballet master in Black Swan. I found him intense, playful and every bit the French gentleman (no talking with his mouth full despite the steak on the plate before him!).

Putin SINGS 'Blueberry Hill,' Plays Piano

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

He may already be renowned as a valiant equestrian and skillful pilot, but as he took to the stage at a St. Petersburg charity event, Russian Prime Mi...

CultureZohn: Black Swan, Or Letting Your Inner Bad Girl Out

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia Zohn

2010-12-02-natalieout.jpgThe message of the movie is that longing and desire are the very things that can take us over the top -- and then, alas, are the very things that inevitably take us down.

Were-Swans and Dark Doubles Take Manhattan

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Erica Abeel

Aronofsky has plumbed the Swan Lake fairytale for its inbuilt elements of Goth-horror. He proposes the black swan as a gateway to mayhem and madness. It becomes a malevolent creature -- think were-swan instead of werewolf.

Movie Review: Black Swan

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Marshall Fine

Black Swan is like a horror-movie version of The Red Shoes --or perhaps it's The Red Shoes meets Saw -- in which the quest for perfection drives the dancer slowly mad.

Toronto's Babes in Wings

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Erica Abeel

Aronofsky's Black Swan inhabits an entirely different planet. An audacious rethink of the themes implicit in Swan Lake, it uncovers the rivalries and ambitions roiling a New York City ballet company.

WATCH: FILM: 67th Annual Venice Intl Film Festival: What To Watch

Posted 05.25.2011

Buzz generated from Venice so far has spoken of diverse genres, stellar casting, and potential breakout films for locally acclaimed filmmakers like Fr...

Movie Review: The Mesrine Films

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Marshall Fine

Mention The Godfather or Scarface or Goodfellas -- it doesn't matter which American gangster epic you reference, chances are Jean-Francois Richet's pair of Mesrine films stack up pretty well by comparison.

Leonie Cassel: Monica Bellucci's Baby Daughter

people.com | Posted 05.25.2011

It's another little bambina for Monica Bellucci! The actress gave birth to a second daughter, Léonie, on the evening of Friday, May 21 in Rome, PE...

Monica Bellucci's Paris Apartment Burgled

AP | JEAN-PIERRE VERGES | Posted 05.25.2011

PARIS — An official close to a Paris burglary investigation says an apartment belonging to movie star Monica Bellucci and her husband, French ac...