Recently, the 37th Goya Awards (Spain’s own Oscars) handed out its Honorary Goya for achievement to legendary writer/director Carlos Saura, one of the country’s most acclaimed filmmakers for the last sixty years....
This past February, I got to sit down and watch fully closely the work of a British film renegade, one open to gay themes when it was still such a closeted subject....
Gangster crime dramas date back to the early years of sound and the obsession with the Italian Mafia came when it was first recognized as an existing organized crime unit. Italy’s post-war...
March only has four films for release this month; one is a classic from the film noir era, along with three new entries. Two of them, coincidently, came out the same year;...
While I was looking up the stats for my article “One Shining Moment,” I noticed a list of major countries that have consistently submitted their choice for consideration, only to come up...
For Best International Feature, the powerhouses that come to mind are Italy (14 wins, 32 nods), France (12 wins, 40 nods), Japan (5 wins, 17 nods), Germany (3 wins, 20 nods), and...
For Valentine’s Day, or Singles Awareness Day for those who are alone (Hi, ladies), I wanted to take a look at films where love is short-lived for various reasons. There are many...
In January, the Criterion Channel released a series of TV films directed by Mike Leigh, better known for his works from the 1990s onward, including Naked, Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake, and...
