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REVIEW | Style Wars: Steven Soderbergh's "The Good German"

It's an odd thing when a contemporary filmmaker apes an outmoded era of cinema. When Quentin Tarantino - whose "Kill Bill" literally lifted chop-socky zooms and cuts for some of its throwbacks - does it, the pastiche is a means of appropriation, to capture the sense of film history as ever-evolving,...

Film Society and Jewish Museum Unveil 16th NY Jewish Film Festival

The U.S. premiere of Alejandro Springall's "My Mexican Shivah" will join two world, nine United States, and nine New York premieres at the 16th New York Jewish Film Festival co-presented by the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center slated for January 10 - 25. Narrative and documentary...

Jessica Biel to Receive Honors at 19th Palm Springs Film Fest

The 18th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will honor Jessica Biel with the Rising Star Award at its annual awards gala. Previously announced honorees include the film "Little Miss Sunshine," the cast of "Babel," Sydney Pollack, Kate Winslet, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Todd Field and Adam Beach. The gala will be held on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at the Palm Springs Convention Center and will be hosted by "Entertainment Tonight's" Mary Hart. "This is one of our most star-studded award galas to date and we're pleased to include Jessica Biel in our stellar line-up of honorees," commented festival chairman Earl Greenburg in a stat...

IMDb: Stone Fined For Filming Interview with Castro

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has disclosed that Oliver Stone's Santa Monica, CA-based Ixtlan production company and four unidentified individuals had agreed to pay $6,322.20 to settle allegations of violations of the Cuban embargo that occurred while Stone was filming a documentary about Fidel Castro between Feb. 2002 and May 2003. An OFAC statement described the production as dealing "in services in which the government of Cuba or a Cuban national has an interest." The settlement, disclosed in a terse news release that mentioned other fines against individuals who had recently traveled to Cuba was brought to lig...

Granma: 28th Havana Film Festival Opens

The freshest and most solid films of the region will be competing on Havana's big screens when projections begin on December 5 for the 28th Latin American Film Festival. In contrast to previous years, when organizers have kept the festival's opening film a complete secret, this year it was announced that "El laberinto del Fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth) by Guillermo del Toro will do the honors. It was also revealed that after the prize ceremony (on the 15th), the film "Volver," by Spaniard Pedro Almodovar, will close the festival. Eighteen films are in the running for the Coral awards, including by well-known directors like Mexican Paul Leduc ("El c...

REVIEW | Death of a Ladies' Man: Roger Michell's "Venus"

Death be not proud. One hears stories of men on their deathbeds who, lucidity gone, expend their last energy on a vain attempt to masturbate; of Viagra-boosted sex that climaxes in cardiac arrest. This stubbornness of the erotic urge, past physical failing, is the subject of "Venus": Why can't I get...

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