Tag: Academy Awards

He's bringing a few bottles of his own wine for the pre-concert party. (No kidding. He actually has his own wine label, and the V.I.P. pre-concert party will showcase several of its offerings.)

I’m struck by how different the very personal and deeply felt Akerman film is from the Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated “Joker.”

This autobiographical film is the best cinema studies course imaginable.

As I perused this years film catalogue for FilmColumbia, I saw some films that could be classified as pure entertainment but others that really will spark controversy and understanding of what is happening in our social/political world.

As he always has done, Scorsese spoke about film with passion, encyclopedic knowledge and a belief in the greatness of the medium.

Great Barrington -- “This will be the best year yet,” Kelley Vickery, founder and artistic director of the Berkshire International Film Festival, stated during her...

Mr. Previn's oeuvre is so extensive in both the classical and jazz realms that a separate Wikipedia article is dedicated to it, and even that list is incomplete.

I can’t be objective, not when it comes to movies. Years ago I would sometimes watch four movies a day when I worked as a film critic.

In his first film set in Spain, director Asghar Farhadi continues to provoke and examine his usual themes of class and gender struggles.

Most gratifying was the spontaneous roar from the crowd when the names of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim appeared in the end credits.

“I think that the greatest thing that our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper." -- Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro

Hershey explains why his Academy Awards predictions were wrong -- and his excuses sound reasonable.