Email Author Ella Taylor

Awards

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

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 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"

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2007 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Blog This: 2007’s Best Films

  published December 27, 2007

  Unless you count a slight preponderance of anthropomorphic rats (mercifully fewer than last year’s penguins), a wavelet of features that... More >>

• Juan Antonio Bayona: Refinding Neverland

  published December 20, 2007

  At the Toronto Film Festival last September, Ella Taylor talked to Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona about Peter Pan, his happy... More >>

• Persepolis: Animated Exile

  published December 20, 2007

  You don’t have to wind Marjane Satrapi up to get her talking about her terrific graphic novel The Complete Persepolis. Or the... More >>

• Charlie Wilson’s War: Go, Mujahedeen, Go!

  published December 20, 2007

  Watching Charlie Wilson’s War is like sitting through a very long episode of The West Wing. Sit back and admire wave after... More >>

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  published December 20, 2007

  The extraordinary Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, more comfortably known as “that abortion movie that won this... More >>

• The Kite Runner: Grounded

  published December 13, 2007

  Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster’s flaccid adaptation of Khaled... More >>

• Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Recast as Bodice-Ripper

  published December 6, 2007

  Rereading Ian McEwan’s Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright — whose broadly grinning... More >>

• Juno: Knocked-up Knockout

  published December 6, 2007

  Tart of tongue and sweet of disposition, Juno offers living proof that crisp writing, graceful directing and an abundantly poised young... More >>

• Savage Love

  published November 29, 2007

  Simmering below the squeamish elder-care euphemism “uncharted territory” is a fearful awareness that when it comes to dealing with... More >>

• Family Circus

  published November 29, 2007

  You don’t have to have been adopted by your own brother to develop a sharp eye for family madness, but in Tamara Jenkins’ case, it... More >>

• Starting Out in the Evening: Intelligent Design

  published November 22, 2007

  In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the elderly New... More >>

• Flights of Fancy

  published November 22, 2007

  If you’re of a certain age, chances are one of your seminal childhood moviegoing experiences was Albert Lamorisse’s lovely... More >>

• Small Wonder: Mr. Magorium

  published November 15, 2007

  Midway through the amiable children’s movie Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, there comes a speech that I’ll wager... More >>

• Arnold's Trick or Treat

  published November 8, 2007

  So there I was on Halloween night, making the candy rounds north of Montana Avenue with my little Bride of Dracula and her pals the Bloody... More >>

• Lions for Lambs: Dull Roar

  published November 8, 2007

  Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about... More >>

• Too Cute for Their Own Good

  published November 1, 2007

  My 9-year-old daughter’s interest in boys is largely confined to whether she can outrun them, and yet she has acquired a precise, if... More >>

• The Ice Queen Melteth

  published November 1, 2007

  Two blocks east of the Institute for Plastic Surgery and Anti-Aging in Beverly Hills, lunching ladies put down their forks and stare. A very... More >>

• Middle East and Adjacent at AFI Fest

  published November 1, 2007

  For several years now, I’ve been writing that Israeli cinema is growing up. A pox on my condescension: It’s not that Israeli movies... More >>

• The Lower Depths

  published November 1, 2007

  That sly old elf Sidney Lumet opens his new movie with a sexual encounter you might associate with a man spending his frustration on a... More >>

• Here Baby Here

  published October 25, 2007

  “I hope people ask me, ‘Where did you find that local actress?,’” Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck... More >>

• Ordinary Rendition

  published October 18, 2007

  Late in Rendition, in case you’ve been blind and deaf enough not to have cottoned to the drift, a tense Washington exchange on the... More >>

• Sleuth: Better Home and Garden

  published October 11, 2007

  Before he snagged the lead in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1972 screen version of Anthony Shaffer’s 1970 stage play, Sleuth,... More >>

• Best Tidal Refuge

  published October 4, 2007

  I live within a few blocks of the ocean, so when it comes to the apocalypse, it’s not the earth moving (done that, took the edge off) but... More >>

• Dark-Skinned Good Guy

  published September 27, 2007

  The first in a series of profiles highlighting the outstanding supporting players of the fall movie season.So here’s this... More >>

• Mother, Flower Child, Ballbuster

  published September 20, 2007

  In a few brief scenes in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild, lost soul Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) bonds with maternal hippie Jan... More >>