Email Author Ella Taylor

Awards

• 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"

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

  "From Reverence to Rape"

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2009 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeaquel Offers Capable Mediocrity

  published December 24, 2009

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

• The Young Victoria

  published December 24, 2009

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

• There's Not Much Truth but Plenty of Reconciliation in Clint Eastwood's Invictus

  published December 10, 2009

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

• Too Much Angst, Not Enough Saga in The Twilight Saga: New Moon

  published November 19, 2009

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

• The Cohen Brothers' A Serious Man Aims Their Contempt at Members of the Tribe

  published October 15, 2009

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

• Tickling Leo Reveals Wartime Secret Suspended by a Succeeding Generation

  published October 15, 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 >>

• Suppressed War Stories

  published October 15, 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 urgent... More >>

• Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

  published October 8, 2009

  Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That's just one of the tasty tidbits in Aviva... More >>

• The Vulnerable Séraphine

  published October 8, 2009

  Martin Provost’s lyrical but bracing portrait of the early-20th-century French painter Séraphine Louis begins and ends with a... More >>

• With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore Sells the Same Old Shtick

  published October 1, 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 >>

• A Twisted Love Story

  published September 17, 2009

  One of the best of a new breed of indigenous movies prying open the Pandora’s box of German suffering in World War II, A Woman in... More >>

• Aristotelian Cinema

  published August 27, 2009

  Quick! Noel Coward: sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott's deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the... More >>

• Quentin Tarantino Serves Hitler’s Head on a Plate with Inglourious Basterds

  published August 20, 2009

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

• Free Willy. Seriously.

  published August 6, 2009

  Late in the infectiously frisky documentary The Cove, an older man calmly gate-crashes an international conference on whaling with a... More >>

• Afghan Star

  published July 16, 2009

  If you think it's impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking's... More >>

• Life-and-Death Situation

  published July 9, 2009

  The stately Japanese movie Departures comes into theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite,... More >>

• The Haunting in Rhode Island

  published April 30, 2009

  Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases... More >>

• Tiny Violin

  published April 23, 2009

  The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the... More >>

• Camera Ready

  published April 9, 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 filtered... More >>

• Now Playing

  published March 19, 2009

  Duplicity It's little surprise that, for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily... More >>

• Power Struggles in The Class

  published February 26, 2009

  There are many similarities between Laurent Cantet's terrific The Class and any of the following schoolroom chestnuts — Mr.... More >>

• Shiksa Versus Jew

  published February 12, 2009

  If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray's Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching, if not... More >>

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating

  published February 5, 2009

  The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You — which sold a regrettable 2 million... More >>

• From Reverence to Rape

  published January 15, 2009

  Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn lately in the movies, it's swastika flags... More >>