New Benigni Film Looks for Love, Laughs in Iraq War
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Having sought to portray a lighter side to Nazi concentration camps, Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni is now looking for laughs in wartime Iraq.
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The Venice Film Festival gets serious this year with competition films about the Iraq war and its impact on U.S. society, police brutality in Egypt, big corporation corruption and the mafia in Italy.
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Woody Allen's new film isn't what it might be, but it has interesting things to say about class and morality
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Director Brian De Palma has impressed critics at the Venice Film Festival with his graphic new film on the Iraq war called Redacted.
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Tony GoldwynÂs remake of a popular Italian film is thin and clumsy, but nonetheless unusually candid in its treatment of human sexual misbehavior
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It was domestic drama at its best _ the kind Italians love _ a scorned wife airing her dirty laundry for the world to see.Comment
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Instead, try to enjoy a new film that puts to good use the voices of Will Smith, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, and especially Renee Zellweger, who exudes a sweetish charm without over doing it.
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Very Long Engagement" puts across a sweeping, uplifting love-conquers-all saga while at the same time letting viewers know that it's hip to the horror of war.
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Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year's Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out.
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Two movies about the Iraq war and its impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.
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With âNice Bombs,â Usama Alshaibi, a Chicago-based filmmaker, adds his noncommittal voice and unsteady camera to the Iraq conversation.
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David Hare's new play about the making of the war in Iraq is a valiant, high-reaching history lesson.
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Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is likely to be the top attraction at the Rome film festival next month.
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The best film so far about the cost of war in Iraq
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The director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July is making his fourth movie about the Vietnam War. But this one, he tells TIME, is just as much about Iraq
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In the Aaron Sorkin-penned film, a wily congressman (Tom Hanks) and a wealthy socialite (Julia Roberts) team up to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. The result: A snip-snap film that plays like a political sitcom.
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Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the war on terror is coming to the big screen in a wave of films that examine severe U.S. tactics, troubled homecomings for U.S. veterans and the conflicts faced by troops hurled into urban warfare in Iraq.