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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2004 Stories by Ella Taylor

• 2004 in Film

  published December 23, 2004

  December is a critic’s designated month to moan and whine about the mediocrity of the year’s movies. It’s often true, and for sur... More >>

• The Better To Bludgeon You With, My Dear

  published December 16, 2004

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• Right of Passage

  published December 16, 2004

  Photo by Teresa IsasiIn the opening scenes of Alejandro Amenábar’s wonderful new movie, The Sea... More >>

• Tales from the Brothers — and Sisters — Grim

  published December 16, 2004

  Photo by Francois DuhamelThe enormously popular Lemony Snicket novels belong to a vitally gloomy strain of kiddie lit that taps into... More >>

• That Reprehensible Man and His Flying Machine

  published December 16, 2004

  If ever a man lived the dark side of American success, it was Howard Hughes. Inventive, fabulously wealthy and addicted beyond... More >>

• Water Water Everywhere

  published December 9, 2004

  Photo by Philippe AntonelloWatching a Wes Anderson movie is like taking an unguided tour of a brainy, slightly deranged imagination... More >>

• Downsized

  published December 2, 2004

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• Been Here, Done This

  published December 2, 2004

  Photo by Clive CootIn Mike Nichols’ movie of Patrick Marber’s 1997 stage play Closer, four glum types fall in and out of love wi... More >>

• Mathilde in Thunderland

  published November 25, 2004

  The young French actress Audrey Tautou has the dimpled cheeks, mobile mouth and astonished saucer eyes of a silent-movie love interest. That... More >>

• The Other Dr. Strangelove

  published November 11, 2004

  Photos by Clive Coote (top) and Ken Regan WHEN IT COMES TO SEX, America has long been queasily stranded between prudery and prurience,... More >>

• Air Sickness

  published October 28, 2004

  Photo by Nicola Dove Enduring Love, a thrilling film based on the fascinatingly uneven novel of the same name by British writer... More >>

• Saint Vera

  published October 21, 2004

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• Step Lively

  published October 14, 2004

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• A Broken World

  published September 30, 2004

  EARLY ON IN Almost Peaceful, a graceful new French film set in Paris immediately after World War II, a young man applying for a... More >>

• Being and Zaniness

  published September 30, 2004

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• On the Bright Side of Smut

  published September 23, 2004

  Photo by Garik Gyurjyan I’m admiring John Waters’ socks — reverse colors, with giant polka dots — and he obligingly lifts the ... More >>

• Romance and Resistance

  published September 16, 2004

  Photos by Pierre Dury (top) and Martin Spelda Perhaps because they’ve endured more wars on their own doorsteps,... More >>

• Something Wilde

  published September 9, 2004

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• “Bow-Wow,” Said the Bunny

  published August 26, 2004

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• Blissfully Ours

  published August 19, 2004

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• Night Cruise

  published August 5, 2004

  © 2004 Dreamworks Productions Late in the new thriller Collateral, a coyote ambles across an intersection in downtown Lo... More >>

• On the Couch, Off the Meds

  published July 29, 2004

  Besotted, like so many of his compatriots, with Alfred Hitchcock, Patrice Leconte has been making elegantly turned, wigged-out comedies by the... More >>

• How To Manage a Ménage

  published July 22, 2004

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• Grace Notes

  published July 15, 2004

  Photo by Christobal Corral Vega It’s one thing when an old-fashioned, heart-on-its-sleeve social drama in the grand realis... More >>

• Get Arthur

  published July 8, 2004

  Photo by Jonathan Hession Letting Jerry Bruckheimer and Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua take charge of the Arthurian legend is ... More >>