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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2006 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

  published December 28, 2006

  Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)(1) Army of Shadows France’s checkered... More >>

• Miss Congeniality

  published December 28, 2006

  I am sorry to say that Peter did not feel very well that evening. His mother put him to bed and gave him a dose of chamomile... More >>

• Vintage Dame

  published December 21, 2006

  In a frisky segment of Jim Jarmusch’s 2003 omnibus comedy, Coffee and Cigarettes, Cate Blanchett plays a dual role as Cate, the... More >>

• What, Him Worry? (Why Yes, Actually)

  published December 21, 2006

  Made when he was a stripling of 24, Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman’s first feature, A Chrysanthemum Burst in Cincoesquinas, was... More >>

• Exit the King

  published December 21, 2006

  More often than not, what Hollywood is pleased to call a May-December love story turns out to be the vanity project of some geezer actor or... More >>

• All in the Family

  published December 21, 2006

  Unlike his intensely committed and colorful lawyer father, Ariel Perelman (a deadpan Daniel Hendler) is anal, inexpressive, becalmed in a dull... More >>

• The Good Shepherd: Trust No One

  published December 21, 2006

  At once a prequel and sequel to The Good German, Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd taps into the inexhaustible vein of... More >>

• The Good German: Out of the Past

  published December 14, 2006

  Sumptuous, clever and cold, The Good German is Steven Soderbergh’s most ambitious leap back into the movie past he adoringly... More >>

• Sighs and Whispers

  published December 14, 2006

  A genteel Crash for concerned liberals, Anthony Minghella’s ambitious new movie, Breaking and Entering, taps into... More >>

• Blood Diamond and The Empire in Africa: Diamonds Are Forever

  published December 7, 2006

  In movies, as on CNN, Africa comes to us cloaked in genre, whether as action-adventure, thriller, moral melodrama or the full-court tragedy of... More >>

• Tear Down These Walls

  published December 7, 2006

  The actress Viola Davis has carved, handsome features and a tenacious stare that brooks no inattention. Though Davis’ implacable... More >>

• Apt Pupil

  published November 16, 2006

  The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — which... More >>

• Hearing Voices

  published November 9, 2006

  Stranger Than Fiction, a fanciful confection about a nebbish who finds out he’s a character in a novelist’s unhappy ending,... More >>

• Talking to Her

  published November 2, 2006

  When Penélope Cruz was growing up in Madrid in the late 1970s, her parents lugged home a huge Betamax machine. After that, it was movies... More >>

• Out of Afrikaans

  published October 26, 2006

  As out-of-Africa dramas go these days, Catch a Fire is downright old-fashioned, a liberal political thriller about a noble black man who... More >>

• Falling Into the Gap

  published October 26, 2006

  In December of 1978, several months after I moved from England to Boston and four short weeks after news broke of the Jonestown massacre, I was... More >>

• Running With Scissors

  published October 19, 2006

  I haven’t read Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs’ best-selling memoir about growing up with his crazy family in the... More >>

• Off With Her Manolo Blahniks!

  published October 19, 2006

  All ruffles and frills, Sofia Coppola’s undemanding pop biopic of Marie Antoinette sits up and begs to be labeled a chick flick —... More >>

• Nothing Like a Dame

  published October 12, 2006

  “Us women are so fucking useless sometimes,” says Helen Mirren. “We irritate me.” Not exactly queenly locution, coming... More >>

• The Circle Game

  published October 12, 2006

  At the tail end of 49 Up, the latest chapter in Michael Apted’s mesmerizing seven-yearly snoop into the lives of a strategically... More >>

• Devils in Disguise

  published October 12, 2006

  Of all the hundreds of pedophile priests to be flushed out of the woodwork in recent Catholic Church history, Father Oliver O’Grady has... More >>

• On the Road

  published October 12, 2006

  If you must have plot, motive and payoff, Kelly Reichardt’s exquisite new film about an ambiguous reunion between two old friends may not... More >>

• The Divining Hour

  published October 5, 2006

  On a hot August morning in Van Nuys, Dolores Cardelucci — former restaurateur, former owner of chiropractic and X-ray clinics,... More >>

• In the Playroom

  published October 5, 2006

  Little Children, a second excursion into middle-class unease by Todd Field after his intelligent but overrated In the Bedroom,... More >>

• Absolute Power

  published September 28, 2006

  In The Last King of Scotland, an adequate thriller redeemed by Forest Whitaker’s sensationally good turn as Idi Amin, freshly... More >>