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The thing about Clark Gable, said Sophia Loren from her home in Geneva, Switzerland, was his watch. The sex symbol whose film career has spanned nearly six decades worked with the Hollywood icon in the lighthearted 1960 comedy "It Started in Naples." "He...

(B+) Contemporary triumphs such as Jim Sheridan's In America (2003) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement (2004) have brought magical thinking into incongruous contexts such as New York's Hell's Kitchen in the 1980s and France during the First...

Writer/director David S. Goyer liked Chicago so much while on set for "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" he returned to direct his horror movie "The Unborn." He got more than he bargained for."We had an earthquake while we were filming an exorcism...

(B) The Kite Runner lives in the galvanic performances of two young Afghan actors, Zekeria Ebrahimi and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada. They bring home the torment of Afghan life before and after the Taliban and, just as important, the resilience of children...

Luigi Comencini, a postwar filmmaker known as the "children's director" for his films examining childhood, has died. He was 90. The director died Friday, April 6, after a long illness, says his family, according to international news sources....

Film producer Carlo Ponti, the husband of screen legend Sophia Loren, has died. He was 94. The filmmaker had been hospitalized 10 days ago in Geneva, Switzerland for pulmonary complications and died overnight (Jan. 9), report news souces. Ponti produced...

Fons Rademakers, the Dutch director behind the Academy Award-winning foreign language film "De Aanslag," has died at the age of 86. The filmmaker died of emphysema in a Geneva hospital, reports Dutch media. Alphonse Marie Rademakers was born in Noord-...

Spike Lee, whose widely acclaimed Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke" aired last month on HBO, is returning to New Orleans for his next TV project. Lee will executive produce a series called "NoLa" for NBC, which will follow the lives...

What is this thing called Cannes? Grueling, crowded, complicated, unforgiving, it's been likened by a survivor to "a fight in a brothel during a fire." A place where reputations are made and hearts are broken, fascinating and frustrating in equal parts,...

Intimate, epochal, quietly unforgettable, "The Best of Youth" defies logic and expectation. Made for Italian television with no thought of export, it shouldn't have captivated the exclusive international film festival world, but it did. Clocking in at...

3 1/2 stars (out of 4) Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly" is the first feature film out of Iraq since the war, which would make it historic cinema in any case. But it's also a beautiful, intensely moving film. That makes it a cause for celebration....

4 stars (out of four) "The World" introduces several dozen young Chinese workers, sometimes harshly, to the world outside. And it also introduces many of us to one of today's great young filmmakers, China's Jia Zhangke. A huge critical hit at the last...