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Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73

An agent for actor and director Sydney Pollack says the Academy Award winner has died. He was 73.

Indiana Jones Poster and Cannes Debut (Trailer)

The much anticipated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, May 18. The 19 year wait wasn't worth it for some movie reviewers. That won't keep the film from becoming a blockbuster when it premieres at theaters across the country on May 22nd.

My Top 5 Filmmakers of all-time « ElTenTwelve

Top 5 Filmmakers judged on the quality of film, scoring and overall impact of the movies they create.

Film: Where is Osama bin Laden?

Nicole showed some of this some weeks ago as it was going through the film festival circuit, but it s opening wide this weekend. Morgan Spurlock, the genius who brought you Super Size Me, now brings us Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? , a side-splitting quest to hunt down the world s number one most-wanted man.

Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.

Heath Ledger Dead

Actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in a Broome Street apartment, apparently from a drug overdose.

Film and television celebrities express support for striking writers

A mass picket outside Universal Studios in Universal City, California Tuesday brought out scores of film and television personalities to support striking writers in the second week of their walk-out.

Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?

In Blind Mountain director Li Yang takes a frank and angry look at sex slavery in rural China. The practice of buying wives was abolished following the Chinese revolution in 1949. By the late 1980s it had revived to the extent that many tens of thousands of women are annually sold as wives.

Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89

Ingmar Bergman, director of several famous films including The Seventh Seal died today.

Remembering Robert Altman -- Page 1

For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie art.

Seed: More Than a Minor Inconvenience

Al Gore's movie about the environment hits theaters.

Hollywood's One Remaining Taboo Found in "Black Snake Moan"

According to John Singleton, the writer and director of "Boyz N the Hood" and other films, who personally financed "Hustle" and is one of the producers of "Black Snake," any clamor about the sexual politics surrounding Mr. Brewer's films misses a larger point. "Hollywood doesn't just have a problem with people of color having sex on-screen," Mr. Singleton said. "It's uptight about anybody having sex."