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

• Malkovich Swallows Up the Screen in The Great Buck Howard

  published March 18, 2009

  No one does raging unlovability quite like John Malkovich, who's a total gas when he drops the bombast that often bogs down his more serious... More >>

• Everlasting Moments Looks Great, But It's a Missed Photo Op

  published March 4, 2009

  Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments is a tribute to still photography... More >>

• Must Read After My Death Snapshots an Era that Makes Revolutionary Road a Tea Party

  published February 18, 2009

  Who owns this devastating documentary portrait of domestic misery in early-1960s suburban America? Charley, the angry, tidiness-obsessed father... More >>

• He's Just Not That Into You Sets Bar Low For Women

  published February 4, 2009

  The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You—which sold a regrettable two million... More >>

• The Class's Delicate Lessons in a Multi-Culti Tinderbox

  published January 28, 2009

  Compare and contrast Laurent Cantet's terrific The Class with Mr. Holland's Opus and Dangerous Minds. Note the structural... More >>

• Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

  published January 28, 2009

  Hannah Senesh—the ardent young socialist-Zionist who emigrated from Budapest to Palestine and was tortured and killed by the Nazis for... More >>

• The Lodger Forces Out A Remake of a Remake

  published January 21, 2009

  Is it just January, or is independent film so depleted that the excellent likes of Hope Davis, Alfred Molina, and Philip Baker Hall have to... More >>

• Cherry Blossoms, a Hit in Germany, Settles into Neo-Hippy Fripperies

  published January 14, 2009

  At least once a year, the canny distributors at Strand Releasing shell out for a crowd-pleaser to shore up their artier numbers. To kick off... More >>

• New York Jewish Film Festival Reflects a Semitic Identity Crisis

  published January 14, 2009

  Given the rainbow muddle that is Jewish identity today—from born-again to secular and all the way to couldn't-care-less—what does a... More >>