'Amour' dominates the César Awards, 'Argo' wins Best Foreign Film

Posted by · 2:32 pm · February 22nd, 2013

The César Awards aren’t quite the final stop on the circuit for “Amour” ahead of Sunday’s Oscars. There is still the Independent Spirits Awards tomorrow. But it’s probably the last opportunity for the film to have a big final hurrah of the season, and it seized it.

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César Award noms celebrate 'Amour,' 'Holy Motors'… and 'Argo'

Posted by · 3:08 pm · January 25th, 2013

Noemie Lvovksy’s ‘Camille Rewinds’ leads with 13 nods.

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Roundup: David Cronenberg on the 'problematical' nature of Oscar season

Posted by · 6:20 am · January 2nd, 2013

Also: The year’s best LGBT characters, and Jay-Z goes ‘Gatsby’

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Kudos for 'Farewell My Queen,' 'Holy Motors,' 'Amour' on French awards circuit

Posted by · 5:32 pm · December 28th, 2012

‘Queen’ a surprise winner of the country’s most prestigious film award.

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Berlinale Diary: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ ‘The Delay’

Posted by · 6:58 pm · February 9th, 2012

Just one full day into the 2012 Berlinale, I’m struck by how many faces I recognize as I traipse across the snow-dusted triangle of the festival center at Potsdamer Platz: crimson-blazered festival stewards who all seem to man exactly the same stations they did last year; international critics in the press room whom I identify instantly by their hair, glasses or oddly colored overcoat, but couldn’t possibly name; even the slickly sullen barista at the one decent coffee source over the road.

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Previewing the 2012 Berlin Film Festival

Posted by · 1:05 pm · February 7th, 2012

The Berlinale, which kicks off on Thursday, doesn’t get as many big auteur names as its fellow European majors, Cannes and Venice, but that means it often springs surprises. Last year gave us ‘A Separation’ and ‘Pina’; we take a look at what this year’s lineup has in store.

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Round-up: What the movies wore in 2011

Posted by · 7:32 am · January 4th, 2012

Also: The darkening of Keira Knightley and Kingsley’s under-acting

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