The response to English-language remakes of foreign-language films is usually something along the lines of, "Why?" If there is already a great film that exists, why not just leave it as is? Reading ...

The media landscape is overrun with nostalgia, remakes, reboots, and surprise sequels. Disney has made big bucks with its recent trend of live-action remakes, and old-school movies like A Star Is Born ...

This year, of the 10 films nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, three of them—Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives, and The Zone of Interest—are non-English-language films. As a scholar of film ...

TV lists writer Tara was raised on Disney classics, vampire media, and 80s movies, discovering a love of filmmaking through Back to the Future and The Goonies. Outside of writing, Tara can be found ...

The 77th Academy Awards show will not exactly be remembered for its foreign accents. Don’t expect the exoticism of 2001, for example, when the Chinese strands of Tun Dun‘s epic soundtrack for ...

After winning the 1998 Thalberg Award, Norman Jewison told the press backstage: “The broader the Academy reaches for artistic excellence in filmmaking, the more important it becomes. Hollywood can’t ...