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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2001 Stories by Ella Taylor

• When He Was King

  published December 27, 2001

  ALI | Directed by MICHAEL MANN | Written by STEPHEN J. RIVELE & CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON, ERIC ROTH and MANN From a story by GREGORY... More >>

• Odd Couples

  published December 20, 2001

  Photo by Neal Preston In the modish 1997 thriller Open Your Eyes, Spanish heartthrob Eduardo Noriega played a troubled narcissist... More >>

• French for Dummies

  published December 6, 2001

  If nothing else, Charles Shyer‘s first excursion into costume drama offers another shining example of Hollywood’s unshakable conviction th... More >>

• Grief Observed

  published November 29, 2001

  Photo by John Clifford The actor Todd Field, who first got noticed playing suitor to Ashley Judd’s troubled shop girl in Victor Nuñez’s Ruby ... More >>

• The Quality of Mercy

  published November 22, 2001

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• Under the Influence

  published November 15, 2001

  Shallow Hal is your mother‘s Farrelly Brothers movie, an old-fashioned romantic comedy bearing the message that your parents, assuming the... More >>

• Directing History

  published November 1, 2001

  At 29 years old, Amir Bar-Lev shows an appreciation for the ambiguities of human psychology and experience that would defeat far more seasoned... More >>

• Running From Hitler

  published November 1, 2001

  Fighter, a humane and precociously wise documentary by the young Los Angeles director Amir Bar-Lev, accompanies two Czech-American Jewish... More >>

• This Waking Life

  published October 25, 2001

  It’s a measure of how much and how fast our world has shifted of late that Richard Linklater‘s latest philosophical gabfest plays li... More >>

• Divided We Stand

  published October 11, 2001

  When I was 18, just out from under the influence of a headmistress whose idea of career counseling was to steer all her ”gels“ in... More >>

• The Accidental Man

  published October 4, 2001

  Here’s how to raise hackles on Stephen Frears within seconds of meeting him: Suggest that he will best be remembered as a European filmmaker... More >>

• Dread Again

  published September 27, 2001

  I was born into one Middle East war and lived through two others. So the primeval groan that welled deep in my stomach as I watched that second... More >>

• Band Plays On

  published August 23, 2001

  “I wanted to make a simple film that would be perfectly understandable,” Jean-Luc Godard told an interviewer shortly after completing Ba... More >>

• Mommy Dearest

  published August 16, 2001

  Jim Sheldon In 1947, the Ladies’ Home Journal ran an abridged version of a suspense novel by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, which... More >>

• Semi-Tough

  published July 19, 2001

  In Made, a new gangster comedy directed by the actor and screenwriter Jon Favreau, Favreau and Vince Vaughn play two bickering Los Angeles... More >>

• Look, Maman, No Hands!

  published July 5, 2001

  Photo by Michael Powers A born provocateur, the young actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz is blessed or burdened, depending on how dainty you... More >>

• Paradise Lost, Paradise Found

  published June 21, 2001

  Photo by Nick Wall The young wizards who make television ads and rock videos are turning in droves to filmmaking, and it’s no stretch to se... More >>

• Bombs Away

  published June 7, 2001

  You don’t have to be a critic to make short work of a Michael Bay movie: bang bang, paper-thin characters, wooden screenplay. Pearl Harbor i... More >>

• Lady in Red

  published May 31, 2001

  It’s here that The Road Home turns into an endearing marriage of the heroic pastoralism of early Soviet film and -- though Zhang would gnas... More >>

• A Certain Smile

  published May 24, 2001

  Jean (played by Charlotte Rampling and Bruno Cremer), are settling into their seaside vacation home. Cocooned in the companionable silence of... More >>

• Praying for Modern Man

  published May 10, 2001

  Eureka, a Japanese movie about the aftermath of a city-bus massacre, may be one of the quietest films ever made about an act of violence. At 3... More >>

• Oblique Strategies

  published April 19, 2001

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• I Spy

  published April 5, 2001

  Robbed of the bleak Cold War espionage arena that was for decades his bread and butter, John Le Carre has kept his perch at the top of the... More >>

• Time-Warped

  published March 22, 2001

  In Christopher Nolan’s fiendishly clever thriller, Memento, a young man named Leonard Shelby (played by the Anglo-Australian actor Guy Pearce... More >>

• Mob Rule

  published March 8, 2001

  Other things being equal, Julia Roberts paired with Brad Pitt would waltz away with the box office if the movie were How To Deodorize Your... More >>