As its title clearly states, the Asian Festival of 1st Films consists of first feature-film works by nationals of Asian countries (or “semi-Asian” countries, such as Armenia and Cyprus), or by their descendants. All nominees are supposed to be first timers in their respective categories.
The four nominees in the Best Film category are:
Nishikant S. Kamat’s [...]
The Sundance Institute has announced the line-up of 64 films selected for the Independent Film and World Cinema Competitions for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Among the 122 feature films selected are 82 world premieres, 23 North American premieres, and 11 U.S. premieres representing 25 countries, with nearly 60 first- or second-time feature filmmakers.
Of [...]
The Sundance Institute has announced the line-up of 64 films selected for the Independent Film and World Cinema Competitions for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Among the 122 feature films selected are 82 world premieres, 23 North American premieres, and 11 U.S. premieres representing 25 countries, with nearly 60 first- or second-time feature filmmakers.
Of [...]
The Sundance Institute has announced the line-up of 64 films selected for the Independent Film and World Cinema Competitions for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Among the 122 feature films selected are 82 world premieres, 23 North American premieres, and 11 U.S. premieres representing 25 countries, with nearly 60 first- or second-time feature filmmakers.
Of [...]
The Sundance Institute has announced the line-up of 64 films selected for the Independent Film and World Cinema Competitions for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Among the 122 feature films selected are 82 world premieres, 23 North American premieres, and 11 U.S. premieres representing 25 countries, with nearly 60 first- or second-time feature filmmakers.
Some [...]
Via Australia’s ABC:
This evening — right now, in Australia, it would be "last night" — Canberra audiences watched a restored portion of what is reportedly the world’s first feature-length narrative film, the 1906 Australian production The Story of the Kelly Gang.
Shot on location outside Melbourne, Charles Tait’s* 60-minute "Bushranger" — the Australian Western — focuses [...]
There were numerous surprises at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) ceremony, which was held yesterday, Nov. 29, in West London.
Out of its six nominations, the unofficial favorite, Stephen Frears’s The Queen, about the battle of wills between Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) following Princess Diana’s death, [...]
The socially-conscious psychological drama Half Nelson, one of those rare low-budget American films that actually have something to say and that manage to convey their message without condescending to their audience, nabbed three Gotham Awards at a Nov. 29 ceremony held in New York City.
The story of a liberal-minded public school teacher (Ryan Gosling) who [...]
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica
There are some works of art that are both obviously derivative of others and obviously inferior to the originals. Those simply ape the earlier work, tweak a few minor things, and try to pass off their theft as ‘homage.’ The Conversation (1974), written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is [...]
I’ve finally posted the list of winners at the 10th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. The award winners were announced by Edward James Olmos and Marlene Dermer this past Oct. 16.
For a variety of reasons, I skipped this year’s edition of the Latino festival. After the fact, I was sorry I did.
Among [...]
A Mexican production and a Mexican-Bolivian co-production were the two top winners at the 32nd Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, which came to a close at a ceremony in the town of Huelva in southwestern Spain on Nov. 25.
Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s feature-film debut, El violín / The Violin, won the Colón de Oro for Best Feature, [...]
With five nods each, the crowd-pleasing dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine (US$59 million at the U.S./Canada box office) and the socio-psychological drama Half Nelson ($2.7 million at the U.S./Canada box office) led the pack of the 2006 nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards. In addition to its five nods, Half Nelson was listed (along [...]
22nd Spirit Awards - 2006
Film Independent’s 22nd Spirit Award nominees were announced by Don Cheadle and Felicity Huffman at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles on Nov. 28, 2006.
The 22nd Spirit Award winners were announced on February 24, 2007.
Spirit Award 2006 Nominees - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
BEST FILM (Award given to [...]
For only the second time, the Stockholm Film Festival’s Best Film award was presented to a female director, Laurie Collyer, whose feature-film debut, Sherrybaby, took the festival’s top prize and brought star Maggie Gyllenhaal a Best Actress award. Earlier this year, Sherrybaby won those two honors at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The U.S.-made Sherrybaby tells [...]
The Unwanted Woman / The Extra Woman, a complex Iranian drama about an escaped (accused) murderer who gets entangled in a love triangle of sorts involving a 35-year-old woman, her husband, and a young widow, won the Best Film award at the 51st edition of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, held in Taipei. (The Asia-Pacific Film [...]
Patrick Tam’s Fu zi / After This Our Exile won this year’s Golden Horse for Best Film of the year at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, which ended yesterday.
Set within a Chinese community in rural Malaysia, After This Our Exile depicts the complex relationship between a boy and his no-good father. Curiously, Patrick [...]
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The top winner at the 2006 edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which wrapped today, was Kim Tae-yong’s Korean drama Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties, about different relationships within a dysfunctional family.
In addition to the Golden Alexander Award for Best Film (worth 37,000 euros), Family Ties won a joint Best Actress award (for Moon [...]
47th Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards - 2006 Golden Alexander
The 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival was held between November 17-26, 2006.
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2006 Winners - Brief Article
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2006 - Article
Best Feature Film Award - Golden Alexander
Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties by Kim Tae-yong. Producers: Bae Yong- kook, Jung Tae-woon, South [...]
43rd Golden Horse Awards - 2006
The 43rd Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival was held between Nov. 10-24, 2006.
The 43rd Golden Horse Award winners were announced on Nov. 25, 2006.
Golden Horse 2006 Winners - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Note: The Go Master and I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone were withdrawn from [...]
17th Stockholm Film Festival - 2006 Awards
The 17th Stockholm Film Festival Award was held between November 17-25, 2006.
Stockholm Film Festival 2006 Winners - Article
Bronze Horse for Best film: Sherrybaby by Laurie Collyer
Best directorial debut: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo for Darkbluealmostblack
Best actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby
Best actor: Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Best [...]
2006 Asia-Pacific Film Festival Awards
2006 Asia-Pacific Film Festival: Taipei, November 21–25, 2006
Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2006 Award Winners - Article
Best Film: The Unwanted Woman / Extra Woman (Iran) by Tahmineh Milani
Grand Jury Award: Living in Fear (Vietnam) by Bui Thac Chuyen
Special Jury Award: GIE (Indonesia) by Riri Riza; Bilut (Malaysia) by Badaruddin Hj. [...]
Queens International Film Festival top winners include Debra Eisenstadt’sThe Limbo Room, Best Foreign Feature Masz na imie Justine / Your Name Is Justine, by Franco de Pena, and Best Documentary The Shape of Water, Kum-Kum Bhavnani’s film with narration by Susan Sarandon.
Yuksel Aksu’s Dondurmam gaymak / Ice Cream I Scream, Turkey’s submissions for the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, won two top prizes at the 4th annual Queens International Film Festival held in the New York City suburb.
Philippe Noiret (1930 - 2006). Among Philippe Noiret’s best-known film roles are the middle-aged glutton in Marco Ferreri’s 1973 bizarre comedy La Grande bouffe / Blow-Out; the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in Michael Radford’s worldwide hit Il Postino / The Postman; and the film projectionist in Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso.
The French production house Flach Film has taken legal action against Google for distributing William Karel’s 2004 made-for-TV documentary Le Monde selon Bush / The World According to Bush for free. Based on Eric Laurent’s bestseller, La Guerre des Bush, and written by Laurent and Karel, Le Monde selon Bush revolves around U.S. president George W. Bush’s administration.
