Army of Shadows Articles
2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards Winners
The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC), composed of 58 U.S. critics mostly based in New York City and Los Angeles, has chosen Guillermo del Toro's Spanish-language dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth as the best film of 2006. Set in 1940s Spain, Pan's Labyrinth tells the story of a girl (Ivana Baquero) who finds herself living in two worlds: One of Fascist horror above ground, one [...]
2006 New York Film Critics Award Winners
U.S. film critics continue to make a few curious choices. At the 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced earlier today, the most interesting winner was the best foreign language film: the somber 1969 French Resistance drama L'Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows, adapted for the screen (from a novel by Joseph Kessel) and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Both Melville (born Grumbach) and [...]
New York Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 10, 2006 Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese Best Foreign Language Film: L'Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville† Runners-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar; Moartea domnului Lazarescu [...]