Email Author Ella Taylor

Awards

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh adn Remembrance"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 11, 2008

  "The Women: Ladies Night"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 11, 2008

  "Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh and Remembrance"

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2009 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Heath Ledger's Ghost Haunts The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

  published December 22, 2009

  Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer from Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created... More >>

• The Capably Mediocre Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

  published December 22, 2009

  Closing out a pretty great year for children's movies—Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline among... More >>

• Jean-Marc Vallée's Plodding Young Victoria

  published December 15, 2009

  Man, British heritage cinema can be dull when assembly-lined for the export market. Laboring under lampshade millinery, hair that looks like... More >>

• Reconciliation, If Not Truth, in Clint Eastwood's Invictus

  published December 8, 2009

  Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there's this to savor about Invictus, a rosy tale of racial... More >>

• Big River Man More Grizzly Man Than Superman

  published December 1, 2009

  This doc is not a colorful geezer story, though its first half-hour is shaped like one. The fiftysomething Slovenian marathon swimmer Martin... More >>

• Tolstoy's Final Days in The Last Station

  published December 1, 2009

  Opening with balalaikas, scurrying agrarians in collarless shirts, and helpful intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was "the most celebrated... More >>

• The War on Kids, a Critique of Public School Culture

  published November 17, 2009

  Cevin Soling's lively documentary lays out in hair-raising detail the authoritarian underpinnings of America's child-centered culture, in which... More >>

• Twilight 2: Too Much Angst, Not Enough Saga

  published November 17, 2009

  Bella: I’m coming. Edward: I don’t want you to.—The Twilight Saga: New Moon Worry not for the purity of... More >>

• William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

  published November 10, 2009

  Other than a few tasty tidbits, like the fact that he wrote Joseph McCarthy's will while still a young family attorney, there's not much fresh... More >>

• Uncertainty Stumbles on Half Baked Existentialism

  published November 10, 2009

  Two lovers named Bobby and Kate, played by the pretty but baffled-looking Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins, loiter on the Brooklyn Bridge... More >>

• Jennifer Baichwal Documents Lightning in Act of God

  published November 3, 2009

  Jennifer Baichwal follows up her superb 2007 documentary Manufactured Landscapes, about the willful harm done to nature by man, with... More >>

• Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis' Very CGI Christmas Carol

  published November 3, 2009

  It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much... More >>

• Skin Follows the Lunacy of Apartheid through Straight-Ahead Biopic

  published October 27, 2009

  If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it's the one dramatized... More >>

• The Wedding Song Probes Bond between Two Women

  published October 20, 2009

  Like her appealing first feature, La petite Jérusalem, Karin Albou's The Wedding Song probes the threats to an intimate... More >>

• Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis

  published October 20, 2009

  For the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors who still remember him, and the thousands of young Jews and Israelis who don't, there's a lot... More >>

• Boarding School Remake St. Trinian's Is High School Musical with Posher Accents

  published October 6, 2009

  One thing's for sure: Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's remake of the famous 1950s black comedies—based on the immortal Ronald Searle... More >>

• Visual Acoustics Explores Flat Beauty of Julius Sulman's SoCal

  published October 6, 2009

  Just about everyone in Eric Bricker's festschrift seems to love Julius Shulman, including (adorably) the unstoppable old gent himself. What's... More >>

• For A Serious Man, Coen Brothers Aim Trademark Contempt at Themselves

  published September 29, 2009

  The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie—a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not... More >>

• Michael Moore Is Now a Marxist for Capitalism: A Love Story

  published September 22, 2009

  The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing... More >>

• Coetzee's Disgrace Rendered Crisply by Anna Maria Monticelli

  published September 15, 2009

  Dour, detached, and oozing general contempt, the professor of literature who runs afoul of post-apartheid South Africa in Australian director... More >>

• Modern Jewish Dilemmas Aired in The Rashevski Tango

  published September 8, 2009

  Just about every dilemma of modern Jewish identity gets an airing in this densely packed tale of a clan of more or less secularized Belgian... More >>

• The Other Man Wastes Terrific Cast on Dreary Filmmaking

  published September 8, 2009

  Whatever initial life there might have been in a story by German writer Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) has been crushed to a pulp by... More >>

• Displacement Dramedy Gets a Spin with Amreeka

  published September 1, 2009

  The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the... More >>

• Tickling Leo Adds to Holocaust Film Grammar of Succeeding Generations

  published September 1, 2009

  A new Holocaust film grammar is forming about what it means to be a succeeding generation, suspended between the impulse to forget and the... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview

  published August 18, 2009

  Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole,... More >>