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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2007 Stories by Ella Taylor

• The Year In Film

  published December 27, 2007

  Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of The Apatow: Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office... More >>

• The Savages

  published December 27, 2007

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

• The Kite Runner

  published December 20, 2007

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

• Atonement

  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 >>

• Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

  published November 15, 2007

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

• Lions for Lambs

  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 >>

• Sleuth

  published November 1, 2007

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

• Here, Baby, Here

  published November 1, 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 of a single mother in his... More >>

• 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... More >>

• The Bubble

  published October 11, 2007

  Had Israeli director Eytan Fox's new film, about a passionate affair between two men on opposite sides of the Israeli-Arab conflict, been... More >>

• Across the Universe

  published October 4, 2007

  After Hair, Hairspray and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the '60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed, here comes Julie Taymor... More >>

• In the Valley of Elah

  published September 20, 2007

  Even the most adamantly antiwar movies about American soldiers returning from Vietnam — Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978) and Oliver... More >>

• Lady Chatterley

  published September 13, 2007

  The raciest thing I ever saw my mother do was read a brown-paper-covered Penguin edition of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover on... More >>

• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

  published July 19, 2007

  I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did. Two straight guys pretending to be gay (insert fiscal excuse here);... More >>

• Evening

  published June 28, 2007

  Parked uneasily between sensitive indie and studio chick-flick, Lajos Koltai's Evening makes star-studded hash of Susan Minot's... More >>

• La Vie En Rose

  published June 21, 2007

  plifted beyond its merits by a stunning performance from Marion Cotillard, the humdrum biopic of Edith Piaf, La Vie En Rose, jogs... More >>

• Shrek the Third

  published May 17, 2007

  Coming out of Shrek the Third, I asked the two smart pre-teen girls I had in tow what they had liked about the picture. Projectile... More >>

• Georgia Rule

  published May 10, 2007

  Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around trying to make contact in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of rampant parental... More >>

• Away from Her

  published May 10, 2007

  In the superbly tacit chamber piece Away from Her, intolerable pressure is brought to bear on the 44-year marriage between a college... More >>

• Avenue Montaigne

  published March 29, 2007

  Neutrally retitled from the more pertinent Orchestra Seats, Avenue Montaigne is a French soufflé of the old... More >>

• The Namesake

  published March 22, 2007

  Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair's The Namesake left no doubt about the film's target audience. If... More >>

• Behind the Music

  published February 22, 2007

  Morally irreproachable and flat as a pancake, Michael Apted's Amazing Grace is set among bickering House of Commoners in... More >>

• Miss Congeniality

  published January 4, 2007

  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 tea. "One... More >>