The best foreign movies and TV streaming include Kingdom, Netflix's hit medieval Korean zombie series, the Javier Bardem-starring drama Biutiful, and more.
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 24 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Next week, five films will be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Today though, from the list of 65 films that were originally announced as eligible, the Academy has released a shortlist of nine films that remain contenders, four of which will soon get the short…
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Don't expect to see Winter's Bone, King's Speech, Toy Story 3, Never Let Me Go, and How to Train Your Dragon nominated for the WGA Awards. The Writers Guild of America have revealed the list of eligible films, and none of the previously mentioned highly acclaimed movies/screenplays are on the ballot. Before you get up…
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The holiday season release date shuffle continues. First Gulliver's Travels was moved, then Blue Valentine, and next is the Golden Globe nominated Best Foreign Language film Biutiful, written and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. Originally scheduled for limited release December 29, it'll now bow on January 28, right after the Oscar…
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We've seen two trailers so far for Alejandro González Iñárritu's festival hit Biutiful, which boasts a performance from Javier Bardem that has been hailed as one of the year's best. Those clips were a sales reel and an international trailer. Now that Roadside Attractions has taken a moment to plan a release pattern for the…
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Two weeks ago there was word that the small company Roadside Attractions would be the outfit to distribute Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful in the US. Now there is confirmation that the company has bought rights to the film and will bring it to US theaters in December. How many theaters? Good question. Can we get…
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At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the Best Actor award went to Javier Bardem for his performance in Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Though Bardem also won considerable praise from the press for his work, Iñárritu's movie as a whole wasn't embraced quite so heartily. That might be part of the reason that a…
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Focus Features has released an international movie trailer for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's (21 Grams, Babel) latest film Biutiful, which stars Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) as a man involved in a bunch of illegal dealings who learns that he might be dying of Cancer. He is a single father of two children, dealing…
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The 63rd Cannes Film Festival has come to a close. And while I still have a couple more reviews to file, I must first write about the awards. As you know, Tim Burton presided over the official Jury this year at the festival, and Sunday night the prize winners were revealed during the closing Ceremony.…
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One of the films that has generated the most interest and buzz at Cannes this year is Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. This time, the director of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel wrote the film himself, having parted ways with creative partner Guillermo Arriaga. Despite mixed reception, the film…
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It's been a couple days since my last long Cannes update. Once the first weekend hit, things got really crazy at the festival. It is becoming clearer to me that this year's theme at Cannes is about death, dying, mortality and legacy. In my last Cannes blog, I wrote about Mike Leigh's new film Another…
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Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) will star in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's (21 Grams, Babel) Biutiful, which begins shooting in Barcelona next week. Inarritu wrote the script himself, his first stand alone effort after much-publicized break-up with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. According to Variety, Spanish-language film is about "a man embroiled in shady dealings who…
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