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Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren in The Last Station (middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (bottom)
The nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards have been announced. Two of the best picture nominees ...
Adventure
The Spirit
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
James McAvoy
Christopher Plummer
Helen Mirren
Ronald Colman, centenarian Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Astor (in the Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda); Fairbanks again, with Irene Dunne and Lucille Ball (in the not-so-classic comedy Joy of Living); Bette Davis, Monty Woolley and Ann Sheridan (in the comedy ...
Other
Woody Allen
Hope Davis
Diane Keaton
Alexander Payne
Packard Campus December Film Series: Introduction
Series Schedule
Thursday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Manhattan (United Artist, 1979, R-rated*)
A television comedy writer in New York falls for his best friend’s girl. Directed by Woody Allen, who stars with Diane Keaton, the film was named to the ...
Animation
PRESS RELEASE
LOS ANGELES (December 1, 2009) – Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced nominations this morning for the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominees for Best Feature include (500) Days ...
Adventure
The Spirit
500 Days of Summer
Taraji P. Henson
Matt Dillon
A Serious Man
Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (top); Stella Schnabel in You Won’t Miss Me (middle); The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow (bottom)
"Kudos to you, great performance," Rosie Perez told Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled drama in which Dafoe ...
Other
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that the 2010 Miss Golden Globe will be introduced at the second annual Golden Globes Party Saluting Young Hollywood, which will take place at Nobu on Tuesday evening, December 8.
Among those who attended last year’s party were 2009 ...
Drama
Golden Globes
The Party
Rumer Willis
Twilight
Taylor Lautner
Ashley Greene
Via Zeitgeist Films, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar’s stop-motion animated feature A Town Called Panic will open in New York City on Dec. 16 (at Film Forum) and in Los Angeles (at the Nuart in West LA) on Jan. 29. Other US markets will follow. (The film will have a Los Angeles Oscar ...
Drama
The Town
Beginning tomorrow, December 1, the Lord of the Rings-inspired Born of Hope will make its exclusive debut on Dailymotion.
Directed by Kate Madison, and written by Alex K. Aldridge with the assistance of Christopher Dane, who also stars as Arathorn, Born of Hope is an original prequel based on ...
Adventure
Hope Davis
Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience (top); 9 by Shane Acker (middle); Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (bottom)
The 2009 edition Stockholm International Film Festival attracted the two-decade-old festival’s biggest audience ever: 130,000 ...
Other
Benjamin Bratt in La Mission
Los Angeles’ 6th Artivist Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, Dec. 1, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Until its conclusion on Dec. 5, Artivist will screen 45 "advocate films" — socially/politically conscious documentary and narrative features and ...
Other
Benjamin Bratt
Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas‘ Wild Ocean (above, top photo) and Greg MacGillivray’s Hurricane on the Bayou, narrated by Meryl Streep, will be screened as the final installment of Part One of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Contemporary Documentaries” series ...
Action
Meryl Streep
Wednesday
Why should anyone give a damn about the (Golden) Satellite Awards?
Well, how often will you see a small, little-seen indie like The Stoning of Soraya M. (above) listed as one of the best films of the year? Or Hugh Dancy shortlisted for his performance in Adam? Or Mozhan Marno listed as best ...
Drama
Bitch Slap stars America Olivo, Julia Voth and Erin Cummings at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz.)
Directed by Rick Jacobson, and co-written by Jacobson and Eric Gruendemann, Bitch Slap is a throwback to B movies of the ’60s and ’70s a la Faster, ...
Other
2009 Satellite Awards
2009 International Press Academy’s Satellite Award nominations: Nov. 29, 2009
2009 Satellite Award winners: Dec. 20, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate ...
Other
Judi Dench
Penelope Cruz
Marion Cotillard
Nicole Kidman
Kate Hudson
Daniel Day-Lewis
Best actress Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (for Dead Man Walking back in 1995) was at the 2009 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, where she was handed the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Kalle Mörck.)
Among Sarandon’s screen credits, which span nearly 40 years, are ...
Drama
Susan Sarandon
Academy Awards
Peter Jackson
The Lovely Bones
Festival director Git Scheynius and Lee Daniels at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz)
Lee Daniels’ Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire earned Mo’Nique a best actress award. In the film, Mo’Nique plays illiterate, pregnant ...
Action
Owen Wilson
Alice
Susan Sarandon, the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Client, and one of the leads in Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Lovely Bones, was honored with the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement ...
Drama
Susan Sarandon
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Peter Jackson
The Lovely Bones
Twilight
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (top); Rain in Ninja Assassin (middle); John Travolta, Robin Williams in Old Dogs (bottom)
Chris Weitz’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon prevailed at the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend, with a solid $42.5 million in ticket ...
Drama
Twilight
New Moon
The Blind Side
Kristen Stewart
John Travolta
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner (above), was the weekend’s #1 box-office hit both domestically and internationally.
Directed by Chris Weitz, and adapted by Melissa Rosenberg from Stephenie Meyer’s novel, New Moon tells the ...
