Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alejandro González Iñárritu and his co-conspirator, Guillermo Arriaga, are engaged in an epic, three-film argument over the distinctions between “random” and ...

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is a meditation on the barriers to communication in a world divided by class, culture, and language. Although his vision is dark, Iñárritu never surrenders to ...

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu and scripter Guillermo Arriaga’s previous collaborations, Amores Perros and 21 Grams, are composed in triads: three seemingly unrelated tales that are gradually ...

s Chieko, Babel's heartbreaking deaf-mute teenager, Rinko Kikuchi's work is nothing short of revelatory. Her character moves through the streets of Tokyo, trapped in a world of silence, and Kikuchi ...

There hasn't been a lot of discussion about Babel yet, but this is a film that provides one of the most fulfilling theatrical experiences in a while. Visionary filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu ...

Many movie fans overseas got their first look at Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi as the troubled deaf-mute girl Chieko in the 2006 film "Babel," for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar ...

Rinko Kikuchi’s breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn’t know the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Rinku Kikuchi is most likely the least familiar actress in the Oscar race this year. A virtual unknown, the Japanese thesp doesn’t speak one line of dialogue during her performance as a deaf-mute ...