Yôjirô Takita's Departures was the surprise winner of Best Foreign Film at the 2008 Academy Awards, beating out the urban realism of Lauren Cantet's inner city school drama The Class ... Read More

67-year-old Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke received the top honor at 62nd Cannes Film Festival, winning his first Palme d'Or for The White Ribbon, an eerie black-and-white exploration of the roots ... Read More

Judging by the credits, Stephan Elliot's Easy Virtue sounds like a good thing: a mad cap romantic comedy, based on a Noel Coward play, with an illustrious cast that includes ... Read More

We're now tweeting the latest foreign and independent film news as aboutworldfilm. Follow us for up-to-the-minute links and news. Here are a few of this week's most interesting bits: "The ratio ... Read More

We wish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar all the success in the world. And yet -- his announcement today that his delicious comedy Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown ... Read More

Lars von Trier saw fit to hang a near-blind Bjork in Dancer in the Dark, shackle Nicole Kidman in Dogville, and rape Bryce Dallas Howard in Manderlay. The brilliant if ... Read More

The things we leave behind are at the center of Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours, starring Juliette Binoche and Charles Berling. When their mother (Edith Scob) dies soon after her 75th ... Read More

More bad news regarding the adorable Mumbai kids from the Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire. Last year, facing accusations that their child stars were being exploited, Fox Searchlight defended themselves, maintaining that ... Read More

The opening night gala of Pixar's Up kicks off the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival tonight. The animated adventure about a man who ties balloons to his house to get ... Read More

Julia, starring Tilda Swinton in a shatteringly convincing performance, is a non-stop, disturbing, exhilarating, all-engrossing experience. Erick Zonca's film -- ten years after his lyrical and altogether different Dream Life ... Read More

Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna were ridiculously charming together as randy teenagers on a life-changing road trip in Alfonso Cuaron's memorable Y Tu Mama Tambien. Eight years later, they ... Read More

Anticipation for Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro is rising. The self-financed film has been selected to open the 41st edition of Directors' Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival. A family ... Read More

The Tribeca Film Festival has wrapped up its eighth year, and the fest that Robert De Niro built continues to slowly and steadily build an identity. Gone are the ballyhooed ... Read More

Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, a short film starring Kevin Bacon, has been cut from the ensemble film New York, I Love You. The short will be available online when the ... Read More

In a Jim Jarmusch film, certain elements are a given: the cool factor, the slow-moving plot bordering on inscrutability, the hip soundtrack. In the past, though, Jarmusch also provided characters ... Read More