As reported by the Hollywood Reporter today, Francis Ford Coppola’s [...]

George Clooney wasn’t wrong: this 84th Oscars ceremony was Made in France. With the expected raiding of the top awards tier by the Jean Dujardin-Michel Hazanavicius (for Best Actor, and Best Director and Best Film respectively) dream-team, France figured highly on a lot of people’s minds, not least of all Academy voters. Martin Scorcese’s Hugo Cabret, in which a young boy crosses paths with George Méliès, the genial and inventive

Act of Valor begins with the sort of sappy voice-over letter that someone should regret. Preceding the storyline (and hence the letter) directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh appear on camera in what looks like a pre-emptive apologia. Speaking directly to the audience, the two men explain they cast real-life, non-actor Navy Seals and their families in hopes of celebrating the real people and capturing the experience raw. These real

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Miguel Gomes’s Tabu, a meditative fable about love, memory and loneliness that jumps deftly between contemporary Lisbon, colonial Africa and the landscape of dreams has been gathering steam on the festival circuit, notably in Berlin this month. The film takes both its title and structure from F.W. Murnau’s final cinematic statement, a collaboration with Robert Flaherty. Shot in grainy black and white, the film begins with a brief