Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2008
2008 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2008 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 3-14, 2008
In Ognjen Svilicic’s Armin, a father and son travel to the big city where they encounter myriad temptations. Armin is Croatia’s entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Oscar.
FIPRESCI Awards
Best Foreign Language Film: Armin (Croatia) directed by Ognjen Svilicic
Best Actor: Song Gang-ho for Secret Sunshine (South Korea) directed by Lee Chang-dong
Best Actress: Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) directed by Cristian Mungiu.
Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, which opens in the U.S. in May 2008, was the opening gala presentation at the 2008 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy follows a woman [...]
by Andre Soares | January 14, 2008
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Tags: Anamaria Marinca, Armin, Autism: The Musical, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Helen Hunt, Palm Springs Film Festival, Song Gang-ho, Then She Found Me
Best Films of 2007: VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY Film Poll
J. Hoberman, discussing the results of a "best of the year" poll of 56 American critics, in the Village Voice:
"Why shouldn’t we be preoccupied with homicidal sociopaths? America’s been at war for the past four and a half years — with, to cite the top-polling documentary, No End in Sight (#29). War makes you wonder what exactly defines murder and who is enabled to commit it. The morally ambiguous mode known as film noir was born during World War II and, as Jonathan Rosenbaum observed at the time, the national obsession with the cannibal genius Hannibal Lecter coincided with our first Iraq adventure, Operation Desert Storm. Where do these current killers come from? It’s suggestive that both There Will Be [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2008
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Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Anamaria Marinca, Critics Choices, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, There Will Be Blood
