The Oscar nominations have been announced and there is as much hand wringing as celebrating. It's really a game of "you never can tell." We all understand Best Picture, the Best Acting categories, Best International Feature, and Best Animated Film. We also have our own
"Close," winner of the 2022 Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and directed by Lukas Dhont who wrote the screenplay with Angelo Tijssens, is the intimate portrait of two close friends whose relationship is hit by the wall of adolescent misinterpretation.
Jesse Eisenberg, in his feature film writing and directing debut, has given us a remarkably insightful film about longing, miscommunication, emotional connection and disconnection, and the need for understanding.
Mayor Lili Bosse presented a special proclamation to the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Helen Hoehne, at the Beverly Hilton this week in recognition of the Golden Globe Award's 80th Anniversary year in Beverly Hills.
Come January, awards season commences. And first up was the rejuvenated – or so they say –Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on Jan. 11 and broadcast on NBC.
The beginning of the new year brings out all the lists for "best movies" of the previous year. I am no exception. One thing you will definitely notice is that so many of the "best movies" appeared in theaters beginning in late September. Awards season voters
What a concept – a film about writing, a writer, and an editor told in an intelligent and compelling manner, using a visual medium to make it all jump off the page, so to speak.
Austrian Empress Elisabeth of the Habsburg Empire was originally young Sissi, Duchess of Bavaria, a carefree royal who enjoyed a rather unstructured life. Courtly protocol was often abandoned in her preferred countryside.