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There is perhaps no other movie that merits a Golden Globe nomination more than Blue is the Warmest Color. The French film began garnering accolades at the Cannes Film festival, where it was awarded the prestigious Palme D’or.

The beauty of Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, the Golden Globe nominee which also just made the Foreign Language Oscar short list, is that everyone, whether cinephile, regular moviegoer or film critic, has his or her own opinion about the film. And when it comes to this Italian entry there are apparently few half-measures.

The short list for the Foreign Language Oscar category released today includes entries from nine countries: Belgium, Bosnia, Cambodia, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy and Palestine. Only two of those (the Italian and Danish films) are also represented in the five nominees for a Foreign Language Golden Globe.

“I am a little embarrassed to say… but without love, life is not worth living. ”This was Hayao Miyazaki’s answer to the question, “What does love mean to you?” in 2008, when the American version of Ponyo was released.

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During the Soviet times vodka and cinema were the main sources of government revenue. Not the oil and gas as today.

Last Friday Pelé, the world’s biggest soccer star, was on stage in Salavdor De Bahia, for the group stage draw of next summer’s World Cup that will take place in Brazil. Yesterday Pelé visited the set of the feature film which chronicles the origins of his sporting stardom.

There are times in which cinema truly does appear in tune with history, with the people and events that galvanize public consciousness worldwide. Such is the case this year with films about Nelson Mandela.

There are several definitions for what constitutes cinema, but when it comes to Arab cinema, the definitions multiply due to overlapping factors, the most prominent of which are political and psychological. For many observers, possibly the majority, Arab cinema (which is of course factual) is available and present till today.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual Golden Globe Awards have enabled the non-profit organization to donate more than $15 million in the past nineteen years to entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals. In 2013 the donations reached a record total of $1,567,650 in grants destined to 40 different entertainment-related non-profits, institutions and charities.