Hollywood 2019: Female-Directed Films, More than Ever Before

Hollywood 2019: Female-Directed Films, More than Ever Before

Oscar Actors: Garbo: Career–Sound Films

Of her 23 American films, 14 were sound (talkies) and the rest silent.

Oscar Directors: Boyle, Danny, Auteur?

He has developed a distinctive approach (and style) that is flamboyant, excessive, and energetic.  There is always some verve in his work, sometimes carried to folly and extreme, which is not necessary or call for by the narrative.

Oscar Actors: Rockwell, Sam–Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Vice

Dixon seems to be everything you would despise in a man, but there’s something in him, and it’s partly in the way that Sam Rockwell plays him, which is childlike and moving despite all his obnoxiousness and horrible faults.

Varda, Agnes: Celebrated French New Wave Director (“Cléo From 5 to 7,” “Vagabond,” Oscar Nominee “Faces Places”) Dies at 90

Agnes Varda, a leader of the French New Wave who directed such films as Cléo From 5 to 7, Vagabond and most recently the Oscar nominated docu, Faces Places, has died. She was 90.