In "Elegy," an absorbing but somber drama that had its North American premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival in May, Sir Ben Kingsley takes a hiatus from the rogue's galley of wackos and ...

It’s May-December time again, and for an aging dude who scores one of the ripest young lovelies in cinema (Penélope Cruz), Ben Kingsley looks mighty down in the mouth. Or something—it’s hard to tell ...

Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz both turn in fine performances in the drama 'Elegy.' Last year, as actress Patricia Clarkson discussed a horizon full of projects, one prompted a noticeable uptick in ...

Two things immediately hit you after watching "Elegy." One: Stars Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz have done their part here and in their other movies (Kingsley's "The Wackness" and Cruz in "Vicky ...

Joan Vadeboncoeur review: Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz are not the stars you would envision in a film version of a Philip Roth novel. Usually, the novelist's works offer more humor regarding ...

The spell cast by most films evaporates before you can fish out the car keys. "Elegy," though, only grows in the memory -- more potent, more immediate, more disturbing. Isabel Coixet's drama tackles ...

LONDON -- Sir Ben Kingsley has clothed himself in the roles of Jewish bookkeeper, Iranian colonel, brutal British gangster -- and Gandhi. But the Academy Award-winning actor wanted to remove disguises ...

There is — or so we like to think — a natural order to mortality. As Philip Roth observes in The Dying Animal, of which Elegy is a very faithful adaptation, we expect our grandparents to be the first ...

In what may be a perfect sophisto storm, none other than Sir Ben Kingsley plays Philip Roth’s academic antihero David Kepesh, a solemn piano underscoring his negotiations with sex, art, and mortality ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley team up in a movie based on Philip Roth's short novel "The Dying Animal," about a charismatic and selfish professor who loses his composure when he ...