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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2010 Stories by Ella Taylor

• "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger": Woody Allen grinds on

  published September 29, 2010

  Kept afloat by a great cast, Woody Allen's latest foray into the perverse follies of mankind begins with a statutory quote from Macbeth... More >>

• "Kisses": Fairy tale meets real life for runaway Irish kids

  published July 28, 2010

  Strictly speaking, the two scrappy Irish kids in Lance Daly's Kisses aren't homeless, but in every sense that matters, they have only... More >>

• Breathless

  published July 21, 2010

  While critics at Cannes break their heads parsing Jean-Luc Godard's latest enigma, his 1960 first feature Breathless marks its 50th... More >>

• Lisa Cholodenko interview: "The Kids Are All Right" director makes a lesbian domestic comedy

  published July 14, 2010

  In The Kids Are All Right, two affluent hyperparents fret about their marriage as well as their teenage children, the elder of whom is... More >>

• "Restrepo"

  published June 30, 2010

  In the summer of 2007, two Western journalists dug in with a platoon of American soldiers on a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley, a... More >>

• Restrepo

  published June 30, 2010

  Amid a glut of amped nonfiction films about the U.S. at war, journalists Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's documentary about their 2007 stay... More >>

• Cyrus

  published June 23, 2010

  In Cyrus, a freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them, the excellent John C.... More >>

• "The Oath": Ghosts of 9/11 with two of bin Laden's own

  published June 16, 2010

  Early in Laura Poitras' outstanding documentary, The Oath, we learn that one of its subjects, Abu Jandal, a cabdriver living in Yemen,... More >>

• Indie film and family in crisis in "The Father of My Children"

  published May 26, 2010

  The Father of My Children, a drama about love, sorrow, and the heartbreak of independent film financing, is sliced neatly in half by the... More >>

• "Sex and the City 2" struggles against nature to stay forever young

  published May 26, 2010

  Say what you will, Michael Patrick King knows how to stage a fabulous gay nuptial. Sex and the City 2 begins with flair and good humor... More >>

• Films About What the Haves Have Not

  published May 5, 2010

  "I'm a girl who likes nice stuff," says Nicole Holofcener, looking around the spacious but unpretentious home she recently bought in a... More >>

• The Secret of Kells

  published March 31, 2010

  If there's an Oscar race that might be worth following this year, it's the one for Best Animated Feature. Out of nowhere, The Secret of... More >>

• The Last Station

  published February 3, 2010

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

• Fish Tank: Fifteen and pissed

  published January 27, 2010

  Katie Jarvis, who makes her acting debut as a rabid teenager in writer-director Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, was discovered on an English... More >>

• The Cove

  published January 20, 2010

  The forthrightly activist but fun-loving documentary The Cove has a natural hero and reformed sinner in Ric O’Barry, a former trainer... More >>

• Invictus

  published January 20, 2010

  A rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist sports movie (and blessedly free of spurious Obama parallels), Clint... More >>