Broadcast Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Awards

2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Award nominations: December 9, 2008

2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Award winners: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 8, 2009

The Broadcast Film Critics’ top picks were The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (above) and Milk, with 8 nominations apiece, followed by The Dark Knight, Doubt, and Slumdog Millionaire, with six each.

Revolutionary Road is nowhere to be found in the list and neither is Michael Sheen (for Frost/Nixon) or Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long), while Clint Eastwood failed to get a best director nomination (for either Gran Torino or Changeling). On the other hand, Nothing But the Truth received two unexpected nods: best actress (Kate Beckinsale) and best supporting actress (Vera Farmiga). (Director Rod Lurie’s "direct marketing" approach may have helped his film.) Though hardly a supporting player in The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger seems destined to nab the best supporting actor Oscar come next February.

Curiously, even though each film received only one acting nomination, both The Dark Knight and Rachel Getting Married are to be found in the best ensemble shortlist.

("*" denotes the winner in each category)

BEST PICTURE
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol
Waltz With Bashir

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
I.O.U.S.A.
Man on Wire
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young at Heart

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir

BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant, Milk

BEST ACTOR
Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
James Franco, Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Vera Farmiga, Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, The Reader

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Milk
Rachel Getting Married

BEST WRITER (ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

BEST COMPOSER
Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood, Changeling
Danny Elfman, Milk
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, The Dark Knight
A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST SONG
"Another Way to Die," Jack White and Alicia Keys/Jack White, Quantum of Solace
"Down to Earth," Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Wall-E
"I Thought I Lost You," Miley Cyrus and John Travolta/Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele, Bolt
"Jaiho," Sukhwinder Singh/A.R. Rahman and Gulzar, Slumdog Millionaire
"The Wrestler," Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (UNDER 21)
Dakota Fanning, The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross, The Reader
Dev Petal, Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters, Australia

BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

BEST COMEDY
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel

Broadcast Film Critics Association Site

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2008

Australian Film Institute Awards 2008

Annie Awards 2009

Washington D.C. Film Critics Awards 2008

Spirit Awards 2009

Satellite Awards 2008

National Board of Review Awards 2008

Brasilia Film Festival Awards 2008

Turin Film Festival Awards 2008

Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2008

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British Academy Awards 2009

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2009 Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards

2009 BAFTA award nominations: Jan. 15, 2009

2009 BAFTA award winners: Feb. 8, 2009

BAFTA Awards 2009 Longlists

("*" denotes the winner in each category)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Persepolis
Waltz With Bashir

British Academy of Film and Television Arts Site

Bafta Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2009

Writers Guild Awards 2009

Online Film Critics Awards 2009

BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist

Oscar 2009: Ed Catmull to Receive Gordon E. Sawyer Award

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American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2009

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2009 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards

2009 ASC award nominees: January 7, 2009

2009 ASC award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 15, 2009

("*" denotes the winner in each category)

Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle

MOTION PICTURES

Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (Revolutionary Road and The Reader)

Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC (Slumdog Millionaire)

Chris Menges, ASC, BSC (The Reader)

Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button)

Wally Pfister, ASC (The Dark Knight)

TV MOVIE / MINISERIES / PILOT

Oliver Bokelberg, BVK for “Breakdown,” the pilot of My Own Worst Enemy (NBC)

Michael Bonvillain, ASC for the Fringe pilot (FOX)

Jon Joffin for “Night One” of The Andromeda Strain (A&E)

Kramer Morgenthau, ASC for the pilot of Life on Mars (ABC)

David Stockon for “Resurrection,” the pilot of Eleventh Hour (CBS)

EPISODIC TELEVISION

Nelson Cragg for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation / “For Gedda” (CBS)

Ousama Rawi, CSC, BSC for The Tudors / “Episode 21” (Showtime)

Stephen Reizes, CSC for Flashpoint / “Who’s George?” (CBS)

Gale Tattersall for House MD / “House’s Head” (FOX)

Glen Winter, CSC for Smallville/ “Fracture” (CW)

ASC Board of Governors Award: Christopher Nolan

ASC International Achievement Award: Donald McAlpine

ASC Career Achievement in Television Awar: Robert F “Bobby” Liu

ASC Presidents Award: Isidore Mankofsky

ASC Lifetime Achievement Award: Jack Green

Heritage Award: Burton “Bud” Stone

American Society of Cinematographers Site

American Society of Cinematographers Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Writers Guild Awards 2009

Online Film Critics Awards 2009

BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist

Oscar 2009: Ed Catmull to Receive Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Heath Ledger’s Potential Posthumous Oscar

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Rotterdam Film Festival 2009: Film Line-Up

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The 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival runs Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009.
At West of Pluto (A l’ouest de Pluton), Henri Bernadet & Myriam Verreault, Canada
Be Calm and Count to Seven (Aram bash va ta haft beshmar), Ramtin Lavafipour, Iran
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang), Edwin, Indonesia
Breathless (Ddongpari), Yang Ik-June, South Korea
Dark Harbour (Futoko), Naito Takatsugu, Japan
Dogging: A Love Story, Simon Ellis, U.K.
Floating in Memory (Liu li), Peng Tao, China
The Hungry Ghosts, Michael Imperioli, U.S.
No puedo vivir sin ti, Leon Dai, Taiwan
Schottentor, Caspar Pfaundler, Austria
Sois sage (Be Good), Juliette Garcias, France/ Denmark
The Strength of Water, Armagan [...] Continue Reading…

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Writers Guild Awards 2009

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2009 Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards
2009 WGA Award motion picture nominations: January 7, 2009
2009 WGA Award winners: February 7, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

MOTION PICTURES
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company
The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films
The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; [...] Continue Reading…

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BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist

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As usual, Hollywood and Anglo-American productions dominate the longlists of the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon have 14 nominations each, followed by Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Changeling, and The Dark Knight with 13; Milk and Burn After Reading with 11; and Doubt, The Wrestler, Mamma Mia!, The Duchess, and In Bruges with 9.
Small British films managed only a handful of nods: three for Hunger and Happy-Go-Lucky; two for Dean Spanley. Non-English-language films fared just as poorly: five nominations for I’ve Loved You So Long, [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 7, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards | 1 Comment

Online Film Critics Awards 2009

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2009 Online Film Critics Society Awards
2009 Online Film Critics Society award winners: January 8, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

BEST PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL*E
The Wrestler
BEST FOREIGN FILM
A Christmas Tale
The Counterfeiters
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Waltz with Bashir
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
Encounters at the End of the World
I.O.U.S.A.
Man On Wire
My Winnipeg
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
Kung Fu Panda
WALL*E
Waltz with Bashir
BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Andrew Stanton, WALL*E
BEST ACTOR
Benicio [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 7, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards | Leave a Comment

Golden Globes 2009: Foreign-Language Nominees Screenings

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The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be screening all five Golden Globe nominees in the best foreign-language film category from Jan. 7-9 at the Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. The nominated films are: The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany), National Society of Film Critics’ winner Waltz with Bashir (Israel), European Film Academy Award winner Gomorrah (Italy), Swedish Film Institute’s Guldbagge nominee Everlasting Moments (Sweden), and I’ve Loved You So Long (France), starring European Academy Award best actress winner Kristin Scott Thomas.
On Sunday, Jan. 10, the Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will present a panel discussion featuring [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009 | Filed Under European Cinema, Los Angeles Screenings | Leave a Comment

Oscar 2009: Ed Catmull to Receive Gordon E. Sawyer Award

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Ed Catmull, a computer scientist, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, has been chosen by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award "for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry."
The award, an Oscar statuette, will be handed to Catmull at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentations on Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills. [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Crafts / Technical, Film Awards | Leave a Comment

Heath Ledger’s Potential Posthumous Oscar in the LOS ANGELES TIMES

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With Heath Ledger in mind, Scott Feinberg remembers the various posthumous Oscar nominations and wins — 53 individuals for a total of 70 nominations and 13 wins, as per Feinberg’s count — in his Los Angeles Times blog:
"As you may recall, the announcement of last year’s Oscar nominations was quickly overshadowed by the tragic news that broke later that same day: Heath Ledger, the actor best known for his Oscar-nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005), had been found dead of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 28. It’s a terrible [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Actors, Authors / Screenwriters, Film Awards | 2 Comments

Out at the Pictures: DESERT HEARTS, GET REAL, JULIA, COCKLES AND MUSCLES

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The British Film Institute will screen four films with (at least some) gay content in their "Out at the Pictures" series in the next two months. The four titles are: Desert Hearts (1985), Get Real (1998), Julia (1977), and Crustacés et coquillages / Cockles and Muscles / Cote d’Azur (2005). The series will also feature "Generations of Love," an intergenerational panel discussion. (See full schedule below.)
Based on Pentimento, Lillian Hellman’s 1973 book of (highly fictionalized) memoirs in which she discusses her close friendship with a woman named "Julia," Julia is my favorite Fred Zinnemann film. Jane Fonda can [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Gay & Lesbian, London Screenings | Leave a Comment

Oscar 2009: Visual Effects Semi-Finalists

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the seven semi-finalists in the 2009 Oscar’s Visual Effects. They are, in alphabetical order:

Australia

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Iron Man

Journey to the Center of the Earth

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Among those missing in action are Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Incredible Hulk, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
As per the Academy’s release, on Thursday, Jan. 15, all members of the Academy’s Visual Effects [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Crafts / Technical, Film Awards | 1 Comment

MARLEY & ME Again Tops Box Office

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Marley & Me topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
David Frankel’s comedy starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston easily dominated the competition all week long, bringing its domestic total to an impressive $106.5 million after barely two weeks in release.
At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, Bedtime Stories, picked up another $20.3 million, reaching a total haul of $85.3 million. In the film, Sandler plays a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories become true the next day. [...] Continue Reading…

by Franck Tabouring | January 5, 2009 | Filed Under Box office | 1 Comment

Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2009

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2009 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2009 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 5, 2009

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL*E
Robert Altman Award for Best Director: Darren Aronofsky - The Wrestler
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Best Actress: Meryl Streep - Doubt
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Original Screenplay: Robert Siegel - The Wrestler
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: The [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 5, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards | Leave a Comment

Pat Hingle

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Pat Hingle, best known for his recurring roles in Batman movies, died Jan. 3 at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C. The cause was myelodysplasia, a blood disorder. He was 84.
During his 50+-year career, Hingle appeared on Broadway, films, and television. Among his more notable film roles are those of a cadet in the 1957 film adaptation of Calder Willingham’s gay-themed drama The Strange One, Warren Beatty’s father in Splendor in the Grass (1961), a sadistic gangster in Stephen Frears’ The Grifters (1990, above with Anjelica Huston), and Police Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movies of [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 5, 2009 | Filed Under Actors, American Cinema / Hollywood | 1 Comment

Producers Guild Awards 2009

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2009 Producers Guild of America’s Golden Laurel Awards
2009 Producers Guild of America feature-film and long-form TV nominations: January 5, 2009
2009 Producers Guild of America winners: Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award
in Theatrical Motion Pictures
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
Ceán Chaffin
THE DARK KNIGHT
Christopher Nolan
Charles Roven
Emma Thomas
FROST/NIXON
Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
Eric Fellner
MILK
Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson
The Producers Guild of [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 5, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards, Producers | Leave a Comment

Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2009

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2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations: Jan. 4, 2009
2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award winners: The Railway Club in Vancouver, Jan. 12, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

BEST FILM
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
BEST CANADIAN FILM
C’est pas moi, je le jure!
Heaven on Earth
The Necessities of Life
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Tell No One

BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Edison and Leo
Stone of Destiny
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Canadian Cinema, Film Awards | Leave a Comment

Edmund Purdom

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Edmund Purdom, best known for his roles in the musical The Student Prince (above, 1954) and the period epic The Egyptian (1954), died in Rome on Jan. 1. He was 84.
The super-handsome English-born Purdom never quite made it to the top despite his two big mid-1950s hits. Perhaps the reason for his lack of success in Hollywood had to do with the fact that he left his wife for minor actress Linda Christian, with whom he moved to Italy, not long after they appeared together in the 1954 MGM musical Athena.
Now, what Purdom was doing [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Actors, American Cinema / Hollywood | Leave a Comment

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2009

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2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2009 National Society of Film Critics award winners: January 3, 2009

An animated film won the National Society of Film Critics 2009 Awards. No, not WALL-E, but Ari Folman’s anti-war documentary-ish Waltz with Bashir, about Israel’s disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It’s hard not to believe that current events — the Gaza conflict has been going on since late December — influenced the vote, though war or no war in the Middle East, Waltz with Bashir has been garnering nearly universal praise.
Waltz with Bashir, which had previously won the Los Angeles [...] Continue Reading…

by Deborah Arthur | January 3, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards | 3 Comments

Guldbagge Awards 2009

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2009 Golden Beetle Awards
2009 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle (Guldbagge aka Golden Bug) award nominations: December 30, 2008
2009 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle award winners: Cirkus in Stockholm, January 12, 2009
A jury of 31 members picked the 2009 Guldbagge Award nominees.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments, a Golden Globe nominee and Sweden’s entry for the 2009 best foreign-language film Academy Award, received eight Golden Beetle nominations, including best film, director, actor, actress, and screenplay. Set in the early 1900s, Everlasting Moments follows a young working-class woman (Finnish actress Maria Heiskanen) who [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 3, 2009 | Filed Under European Cinema, Film Awards, Swedish Cinema | Leave a Comment

Best Films of 2008: LA WEEKLY/VILLAGE VOICE Poll

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J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots.
"Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late December to snatch the prize from the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and David Fincher’s Zodiac, there was no [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards | 1 Comment

National Film Registry

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The National Film Registry, Library of Congress
1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
2) ADAM’S RIB (1949)
3) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)
4) THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
5) ALIEN (1979)
6) ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
7) ALL MY BABIES (1953)

8) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
9) ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
10) ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)
11) ALL THE KING’S MEN (1949)
12) AMERICA, AMERICA (1963)
13) AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
14) AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
15) [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Classics | 1 Comment

Golden Globes 2009: Presenters

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Below is the (growing) list of guest presenters at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards. In the US, the awards ceremony will be telecast live on NBC Sunday, January 11 (8 - 11 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton.
They are: Cameron Diaz, Jessica Lange, Chris Rock, Simon Baker, Drew Barrymore, Glenn Close, Sacha Baron Cohen, Aaron Eckhart, Laurence Fishburne, Ricky Gervais, Jake Gyllenhaal, Salma Hayek, Blake Lively, Jennifer Lopez, the Jonas Brothers, Hayden Panettiere, Martin Scorsese Amy Poehler, and Seth Rogen.
Steven Spielberg will also be present to receive this year’s [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009 | Filed Under Film Awards | 1 Comment

Buster Keaton, SUNRISE, THE CAT AND THE CANARY: San Francisco Silent Film Festival Screenings

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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival will present a special series of screenings on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14, at the Castro Theatre. The screening films are the Buster Keaton vehicle Our Hospitality (1923), the Russian comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927), F. W. Murnau’s Academy Award-winning (for "Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production") Sunrise (1927), and the haunted-house caper The Cat and the Canary (1927).
I haven’t seen either Our Hospitality or A Kiss from Mary Pickford. I’m not a silent-comedy fan so Keaton films are usually a low priority (though I’ve stone-facedly sat through [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Classics, Silent Films | 5 Comments

National Film Registry 2008

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This year, the Library of Congress has selected another 25 American films to be included in their National Film Registry, which under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act is supposed to preserve "for all time" short and feature films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant. (See full list below.)
Among the films selected are John Boorman’s Oscar-nominated 1972 drama Deliverance; Howard Hawks’ flag-waving 1941 war drama Sergeant York (above), which earned Gary Cooper his first best actor Oscar; John Huston’s 1950 film noir The Asphalt Jungle, starring Sterling Hayden and featuring a pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe; and [...] Continue Reading…

by Andre Soares | December 30, 2008 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Classics | 8 Comments