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France's National Cinema Centre (CNC) has announced it is increasing the size of the country's Oscar selection committee to reinforce its independence. The move follows controversy over the CNC-run committee's recent choices of film to represent France in the Best International Feature Film…

Chinese comedy drama YOLO from Sony Pictures International had a yodeling good domestic debut, grossing $840k on 200 screens, making no. 9 on the weekend top 10. Directed and produced by and starring China's top grossing female helmer, Jia Ling, it’s earned close to $482 million in China since opening…

With no new bust-out limited releases, repertory continues to do its part for the specialty box office, the latest a 4k restoration of Nostalghia. Kino Lorber said the Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film, which opened Wednesday, will gross an estimated $22.87k at Film Forum in NYC for the five days. It's…

"Uninspired." "Never catches fire." "Non-memorable." I was sifting through reviews last weekend as the first step in my mission to re-discover the habit of moviegoing. With Barbenheimer finally behind us (well, almost), I decided to see three new movies on successive days – yes, buying tickets and…

The Avenue release Land of Bad, powered by Variance, grossed $1.8 million on 1,120 screens, landing in the top ten for the weekend as Variance noted strong word of mouth with Saturday grosses jumping 37% from Friday' (not including Thursday sneaks). The estimate for the four days is $2.07…

The Taste Of Things, a meditation on turn-of-the-century French cooking — no chicken wings or nachos in sight — is stirring up a nice weekend for IFC Films with $126k and the best per-theater opening of the year so far on Super Bowl weekend. Wim Wenders' Perfect Days from Neon is looking at $100k on…

It's a weekend of well-reviewed indie openings with Bleecker Street's Out Of Darkness, The Monk And The Gun (from the directors of Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom) and limited openings for The Taste Of Things, Perfect Days (Best International Feature nominated), Anthony Chen’s Drift, Bas Devos’ Here and Enn…

As awards season switches up a gear, with the handing out of the Golden Globes and the publication of the Bafta shortlists, one major title stands out in the International categories of both: Justine Triet's Palme d’Or winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. It would be a reasonable bet for the Oscar…

At first sight, the film the French chose to represent them at the Oscars next year couldn't be any more French. A chaste romantic drama starring Juliette Binoche as Eugénie, an unsung, genius-level private chef, The Taste of Things takes place in the kitchen at the sprawling rustic home of the famous…

Juliette Binoche is a true international star whose career has spanned decades of memorable performances on stage and screen. She won an Oscar, a BAFTA and many other honors for her role in 1996’s The English Patient, and holds the record as being the only…

Here's your first look at The Taste Of Things, the latest feature from director Tran Anh Hung, which has been submitted as France's entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.  The period drama revolves around a culinary love affair between a dutiful cook and her gourmet…

France has submitted The Taste of Things as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, in a major upset after Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner and hot favorite Anatomy of a Fall was shut out. The period drama The Taste of Things revolves around a culinary…