4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days Articles

2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: Dec. 10, 2008   Best Picture: Milk directed by Gus Van Sant Runners-up: Rachel Getting Married; Happy-Go-Lucky and Slumdog Millionaire (tie) Best Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu Runners-up: A Christmas Tale; The Class Best First Film: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River Runners-up: Ballast; [...]

2008 Nastri d'Argento National Union of Italian Film Journalists' 2008 Nastri d'Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008 2008 Nastri d'Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead   Best Director Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo Daniele LUCHETTI [...]

Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days In the LA Weekly, Scott Foundas wonders, "How do you say 'Oscar scandal' in Romanian"? Oscar scandaliu perhaps? I mean, for Zeus' sake, even Scott Foundas' own mother liked Cristian Mungiu's widely praised Cannes Film Festival winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Why didn't those Academy voters who pick the potential [...]

The Unknown by Giuseppe Tornatore (top); The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky (bottom) When I stated in my Oscar 2008 predictions that the Academy's foreign-language film shortlist is the most difficult to predict, I wasn't kidding. Nowhere to be found in the list of nine foreign-language film semi-finalists are: Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days — last year's Cannes Film Festival winner and [...]