As usual with a Nicolas Winding Refn movie, his new film Only God Forgives, which just premiered at Cannes this morning, is rhythmically exciting, wit...
Film: In the House (2012) ["Dans la maison"]
Cast includes: Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool)
Director: Fabrice Luchini (The Woman on the 6th Floor), Erns...
Initially seeming like a comedy about the vicarious voyeurism of a literature teacher at a Paris high school, it casually transforms itself into something else: a psychological thriller of sorts, in which what is real is never quite clear and never particularly important.
Rupert Everett has just won an award for playing Oscar Wilde in David Hare's melancholy play, The Judas Kiss, at the Duke of York's, and it's not difficult to reckon why.
Since its launch, Huff/Post50 has been interviewing artists, actors and writers. At the end of each conversation, we asked them what is one thing they...
In a compelling new film, Kristin Scott Thomas plays a beautiful widow who seduces American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawkes). We recently spoke with Scott Thomas about "The Woman in the Fifth" and the woman behind her many roles.
We recently had the chance to speak with Ethan Hawke, who raved about working with Pawlikowski and also dished on his love of European movies, Sidney Lumet, and genre filmmaking.
Now, if you think Mr. Pattinson looks miserable as the teenage vampire of the "Twilight" films, wait till you see him mope, wince and weep his way through "Bel Ami."
Who doesn't love a good cat fight? I'm not talking about old-fashioned ladies mud wrestling or a trailer trash hair-pulling contest. I'm referring to the kind of fight where acid thoughts fly across the stage on malicious darts guided by a frightening level of intelligence.
A few thoughts about the Toronto Film Festival in general before I dive into my thoughts about the four films I saw today:
First of all, the phones: ...
As you watch Alain Corneau's Love Crime, take a minute to try to decide who has the iciest, deadliest pair of eyes -- Kristin Scott Thomas or Ludivine Sagnier.
Denial, Aidan Quinn says, is a persistent force that's hard to fight.
That's true whether it's one man looking at his own life - or the government of...
"Sarah's Key" is a wrenching film told on two levels about one woman's desperate story. Even as it indicts the French for their complicity in the extermination of the Jews, it examines the reverberations of that era that continue today.
Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood's look at the a couple of years in teenage John Lennon's life, shows how Lennon was shaped by the two women in his life at the moment in time.
"In France in particular... the way women are perceived is not that once you're past 40, you're past IT. But on the contrary, experience is very attractive, and we like seeing a woman with lines."
The Cannes Film Festival kicked off Wednesday night with a gala premiere for 'Robin Hood.' Below are some of the photos, featuring Russell Crowe and w...
At a recent event in New York honoring the composers Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Caron revealed it was actually her idea to turn the Colette novel, Gigi, into a film.
Stephan Elliott's film is beautifully photographed and masterfully designed to show the contrasts between a fading Victorian England and the blinding platinum glory of the emerging Art Deco period.
When it was first performed in 1896, in Petersburg, The Seagull was a disaster. But the actors in this new production of the play by the Royal Court Theatre, are magnificent.