Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

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Your voice on the phone is much younger than it is in the movie. Actually it's different from any of your movie voices. It depends on what character I'm being this week, but it's usually just the same ...

Quintessential fairbanks swashbuckling abounds in this Raoul Walsh–directed adaptation of the Arabian Nights stories, in which Fairbanks’s crafty but charismatic (and remarkably agile) thief ...

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Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified woman while driving to work.

Just as the number of women involved in film production remains below the expectations of a great many observers, the number of female film critics at influential publications continues to decrease.

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The lives of the Brontës were marked by ambition, transgression, and tragedy, but André Téchiné’s 1979 The Brontë Sisters is all the more haunting for being stylized and elliptical. The script by ...

Despite an aughts revival and an eighties movie version, A Chorus Line, Michael Bennett’s groundbreaking, self-referential 1975 whoop of desperation from the “swing” set, has never broken free from ...

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