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It’s been a long time since my last Claude Lelouch movie and I still remember and will never forget the first one I saw, the immortal A Man ...

Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks)

One of the most raw and direct war movies I have seen that do not show any gun fight and tears you apart by the emotions you will feel while...

Aleksandra (Alexandra)

The sixth in a series of films based on the works of cartoonist Ronald Searle -the first film done in 1954- and almost everyone saying that ...

St Trinian’s

For me is impossible to see this movie without looking for the magic realism of Garcia Marquez novels and before seeing it I knew -because o...

Love in the Times of Cholera

Can you imagine Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman together with great human roles? If you can, then you have to see this movie that moves fr...

The Bucket List

Starring and directed by Denzel Washington this movie is inspired on a true story even when the screenplay writer took some liberties to inc...

The Great Debaters

Come on! This is a fantasy and adventure movie that will keep your attention no matter how silly the story is and whatever everybody says, t...

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Surprisingly very good! Have to share with you that I do not enjoy Ben Affleck performances and after seeing this movie I think he should st...

Gone Baby Gone

Since yesterday I’ve been thinking what to write about this movie as honestly I’m having a hard time finding the words to what I really thin...

Lions for Lambs

The film is splendid and the much-discussed nude scenes are outstandingly beautiful and mesmerizing! They are integral part of the story as ...

Se, Jie (Lust, Caution)

Latest movie by 83-year-old Sidney Lumet that tells a classical Lumet story about those things that go wrong, very wrong. Like a Greek trage...

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Well it is a little more than scary or better not scary but very tense. Starts slowly introducing the characters and eventually I thought it...

El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

Recently indieWIRE realeased the results of their annual poll and here are some categories with the rankings for the top five. Best Film The...

indieWIRE North American Critics Poll 2007

Recently they released the nominations where only actors get to vote to honor their peers. The SAG awards ceremony will be simulcast live on...

14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations

As I mentioned before I will see any movie with Nicole Kidman and so I did watch this film that honestly while watching I kept asking myself...

The Invasion

Produced, co written, and directed by Helen Hunt, who also has the lead role, this drama/comedy is a very good, smart and seriously funny th...

Then She Found Me

The award ceremony will be held on January 27th or February 3rd (who knows? But it seems is the first week of February) and yesterday they a...

XXII Goya Awards Nominations

Paris 2002. Extremely beautiful Paris. Hot summer. Paris-Plage (Paris beach) arrives to the Seine where Mahaut spends her nights dreaming ab...

Le Sable (The Sand)

The AFI Awards were created to protect and preserve the legacy of the moving image art form and in general, America’s cultural legacy though...

8th American Film Institute Awards

Even when the awards winners are not yet posted in their site, here are some of the award winners. Motion Picture, Drama : No Country For Ol...

12th Satellite Awards Winners

Here are the Coral Prize winners for feature films. First Prize : Silent Light, Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, France and Netherlands Second Prize...

29th New Latin American Cinema International Film Festival Winners

This Wong Kar-wai movie is at the same time different and similar to his movies. His first English speaking language movie has many scenes w...

My Blueberry Nights

Nice study of power with impressive costumes and outstanding scenery especially the burning of the Spanish Armada and Elizabeth I standing i...

Elizabeth the Golden Age

Very strange (and uneven movie) for those –like me- that know very little about the life of Bob Dylan, even when I do know his music and was...

I’m Not There

I know, I know… too many posts for awards!!! But is the end of the year and believe it or not this is what happens every year! Think that th...

13th Annual Critic’s Choice Awards

Last Monday the critics announced their awards for this year and here they are. Best Picture : "The Assassination of Jesse James by the...

2007 San Francisco Film Critics’ Awards

This is one of the most prestigious French Film awards -considered as “le Goncourt du 7e art”- and in this edition the winners are: Prix Lou...

68th Prix Louis Delluc

Here are the nominations for these awards that will have their award ceremony on February 8th, 2008, two days before the British Academy Fil...

28th London Critics Circle Awards

This movie by 60 years old Ichikawa Jun based on a 200 pages book by 30 years old Kaori Mado (the story is sort of autobiographical) is a ve...

Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata (How to Become Myself)

I just finished watching the live announcement of the Golden Globes nominations and have to admit that some are a little strange. But before...

65th Golden Globe Awards

I’m speechless and this not often happens to me. I ended in a knot; I was a knot in my chair. Very Intense Movie!!! Extremely good movie! Ve...

4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)

Concurrently to the Sundance fest there is this fest that takes place in Park City, Utah from January 17-25, 2008. Most interesting is this ...

14th Slamdance Film Festival

Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) today announced the twelve finalists for the 2008 Sundance/NHK International Fil...

2008 Sundance Film Festival News

With a similar story to The Graduate this comedy stars a good looking Stockard Channing and always good Bob Hoskins and tells about a young ...

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