Elegy News

Editor's note: The first in a series of essays looking back at the films and filmmakers of the past decade.

Set in the dreary days between postwar and swingin' London, "An Education" is the story of Jenny, a teenager with a bright future who falls in love with David, a suave stranger twice her age.

Mariah Carey will receive the 14th annual Capri-Hollywood Film Festival's award for this year's Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Precious." The film will also have its Italian premiere at the fest, which runs Dec.

Look out! He's about to twinkle! NATHANIEL ROGERS Nathaniel would live inside the movie theater but for the poor internet reception.

Day 4 Easy Rider 's next stop brings the story to a commune inspired by the New Buffalo settlement outside of Taos, N.M. Here movie geography and real-world locations split.

Despite her success making films both in her native Spain and in Hollywood, "I haven't lost the normal fear and insecurity that comes with acting, and I don't want to lose it," says Oscar winner Penelope Cruz.

THIS season's programme by the Eastbourne Film Society at the Curzon Cinema with screenings open to the general public is proving particularly outstanding as regards the quality of the acting on view.

Home : Sightings : Celebrities : Mixed Groups : Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley 23-Oct-2009 Written by: Ryan Britten Even Celebs have bad days So I'm working as background on the feature film, Elegy, starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz.

Leonardo DiCaprio got a little from his friends in Canada in the making of Blood Diamond.

Is Penelope Cruz joining the cast of the Sex and the City 2 film? According to reports by several entertainment sites like OK!, the beautiful actress is slated to play herself at a posh red carpet event .

Spend 30 seconds with patricia Clarkson and you grasp the awesomeness of her performance in Cairo Time.

Home : Sightings : Celebrities : Female : P : Ms Penelope Cruz Ms Penelope Cruz 27-Sep-2009 Written by: Ryan Britten Even Celebs have bad days So I was working as background on the Feature Film Elegy starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz.

Jim Sturgess in a scene from the drama 'Fifty Dead Men Walking.' It's set in Ireland, but if the dramatic thriller "50 Dead Men Walking" was a color, it would be gray, not green.

NO LONGER EXPLOITING the Jewish Holocaust as in last year's The Reader, author Bernard Schlink reveals the essence of his trite, lurid imagination in The Other Man.This adultery melodrama - starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas - uses a Schlinkian time-shifting narrative to detail the lustful secrets and deceits in a longtime ...

Back when he was 38, Ben Kingsley might have understandably assumed that most of the rest of his acting career would take place on the stage - after all, he'd gone from success to success in the British theater, while being told in no uncertain terms that he didn't have what it would take to be a movie star.

Actors are often asked to name their dream directors. With the slightest smile, Sir Ben Kingsley gives his standard reply: "I haven't met them yet." Case in point: Fifty Dead Men Walking, the gritty real-life story of Martin McGartland , an ex-IRA member who worked as a mole for British Intelligence through the '80s after becoming disillusioned ...

Given the oh-so-vulnerable title of Woody Allen's latest film, Whatever Works, it seems all too easy for its skeptics to cleverly play that name against itself.

Rocknrolla * * * * Director: Guy Ritchie Guy Ritchie takes a funny, entertaining look at London's underbelly, but the story is a little weak.

Dare to dream your life. Whether in The Station Agent , Six Feet Under , the more recent Elegy , or here in Phoebe in Wonderland , Patricia Clarkson is undeniably enchanting.

Patricia Clarkson, the Emmy- and Academy Award–winning star of Elegy and Pieces of April , recently delivered the keynote speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Annual New Orleans Dinner.