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My Oscars by Anthony Quinn
Friday, 20 February 2009
The Independent's film critic makes his choices for the big night
The Barometer: Three Monkeys; Robyn Hitchcock; The Pink Panther 2; The Saturdays
Friday, 20 February 2009
Double vision: Philippe Claudel is flying high in both fiction and film
Friday, 20 February 2009
Last week, at the Baftas, one award in particular gave quiet satisfaction to lovers of a cinema that favours heartfelt substance over frantic style. I've Loved You So Long took the honour for the best film not in English. Plenty of exacting critics find it something of a scandal that Kristin Scott Thomas, who unforgettably plays a woman coming home after 15 years in jail, will not be competing for an Oscar on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
Observations: A film director with experience
Friday, 20 February 2009
Manoel De Oliveira was 100 years old last December but the Portuguese director doesn't want to brag about the fact. "I am not responsible for my age. It wasn't my decision to get to this age," he says with a hint of impatience when I meet him in Berlin shortly before the premiere of his new feature, The Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl.
Naomi Watts - No more drugs, sex or violence
Friday, 20 February 2009
She made her name with intense performances in tough and uncompromising roles but that's all changed now. Naomi Watts talks to Elaine Lipworth
The Independent Film Forum: 2. The Reader
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Our new film forum is your chance to pass judgement on a recent release. Here’s a selection of your views on Kate Winslet’s Oscar-nominated latest
An unlikely new type of Hollywood hero
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Battered, bruised and more than a little flawed, Hollywood’s current crop of leading men is breaking the mould. It’s a sign of the times, says Rosamund Witcher
London River: The film of the 7/7 bombing
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
It was the talk of Berlin, but this new film is nothing to celebrate, says Kaleem Aftab
Oscar's best-dressed friends
Monday, 16 February 2009
Susannah Frankel: The most memorable fashion winners and losers
Class act: How the French director Laurent Cantet netted an Oscar nomination
Sunday, 15 February 2009
The French director Laurent Cantet tells Jonathan Romney how he let a class of school children loose on his script – and ended up with an Oscar nomination
Parties: Want to see my Bafta?
Sunday, 15 February 2009
It's the Grey Goose Bafta after-party at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, and the youth brigade have taken over. Brangelina and weeper Winslet are nowhere to be seen within the labyrinth of 15 rooms set aside for the bash – perhaps they're at one of impresario Harvey Weinstein's two parties across town.
Marlon and me: Budd Schulberg tells his amazing life story
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Born of Hollywood royalty, he drank with F Scott Fitzgerald, sparred with Hemingway, tamed Brando, and consoled Muhammad Ali. He also wrote some of the greatest lines ever committed to celluloid. So why does Budd Schulberg remain a virtual unknown?
The Young Victoria - another screen queen
Friday, 13 February 2009
'The Young Victoria' goes a step further than other films about royalty. It is co-produced by Sarah Ferguson and has a cameo for her daughter, Princess Beatrice. Alice Jones reports
Carey Mulligan - Straight to the top of the class
Friday, 13 February 2009
At just 23, UK star Carey Mulligan is working with Johnny Depp and Michael Mann and was the toast of the Berlin Film Festival. Gaynor Flynn meets her
Observations: The poster boy for Hollywood's star gangsters
Friday, 13 February 2009
A man in his early fifties is dressed in black tie. He is lit from above, which throws his features into an intimidating scowl. The picture is completed – rather incongruously – by a young cat in his arms.
Party Of The Week: Brad and Angelina who?
Friday, 13 February 2009
It could have been a modern-day Roman feast, with over a thousand of the world's most beautiful people sitting in the Great Room of the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, where Bafta winners and contenders gorged on braised lamb and fluffy port soufflés.
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Screen Talk: No want of war
Friday, 13 February 2009
It's springtime for Hitler as far as the studios are concerned with Nazis back big time over the next year or two.
The Word On... Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Friday, 13 February 2009
"The film wouldn't work without its superb acting quartet. Johansson, the latest Allen muse, gives her best performance for him as the capricious Cristina... Yet fittingly it's the Iberian contingent who really shine." - Leigh Singer, www. channel4.com/film
Video Paradiso: how an Italian town rescued a priceless film collection
Thursday, 12 February 2009
55,000 videos threatened with oblivion find a new home with an oddball mayor
Can guys really enjoy chick flicks?
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
The male stars of 'He's Just Not That Into You' have made a trailer to encourage men to see their film. Alice Jones finds out
The Independent Film Club: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Our new film club is your chance to pass judgement on a recent release. To kick things off, here’s a selection of readers’ views on Brad Pitt’s Oscar-nominated movie
Here's the first lesson on joyless side of sex
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
British Film Institute re-releases historical sex education movies
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Il Divo, 15
Paolo Sorrentino’s terrific film presents an extraordinarily sinister portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s most significant politician of the post-war era. As incarnated by Toni Servillo, Andreotti appears not so much an eminence grise as a black hole.
Nationwide
Wendy and Lucy , 15
Michelle Williams, with page-boy haircut and a martyrishly sad face, is quite lovely in this extremely low-key but very touching humanist drama about hardship and a modern-day hobo’s search for her missing dog.
Limited release
Bronson, 18
An original and pacy portrait of Charles Bronson, a violent sociopath who has spent most of his adult life in solitary confinement. Tom Hardy gives what ought to be a career-making performance.
Nationwide
The Class, 15
The winner of the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes festival is a remarkable piece of naturalistic film-making, set over the course of a school year in a racially mixed classroom of boisterous and endearing adolescents in an inner-city Paris high school.
Nationwide
Not Quite Hollywood, 18
Informative and very funny documentary charting the history of Ozploitation, a forgotten strand of exploitation cinema that was concurrent with the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s, but had rather more nudity, mayhem and gore.
Limited release