Susan Sarandon: Lifetime Achievement Award at Stockholm Festival

Susan Sarandon will be the recipient of the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 to be presented at the 20th Stockholm International Film Festival, which runs Nov. 18-29. Sarandon will be accepting the honor in person.
As per the Stockholm Film Festival’s press release, "the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to honor and acknowledge a longstanding career and an outstanding achievement in cinema. The prestigious award, in the shape of a 16 lb Bronze Horse (the heaviest film award in the world), is a paraphrase on the Swedish Dala horse, designed by designer Fredrik Swärd."
Previous recipients of the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award include Lauren Bacall, Charlotte Rampling, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Jean-Luc Godard, Erland Josephson, and Paul Schrader.
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by Andre Soares | October 22, 2009   
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London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: APRES LUI, FUCKING DIFFERENT TEL AVIV

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Saturday, April 4, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
 

Après lui

Directed by:
Gaël Morel

Cast:
Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Adrien Jolivet

Country:
France

Year:
2007

Running time:
90min

 
Following the sudden death of her son Mathieu in a car accident, Camille (Catherine Deneuve) reaches out to his best friend Franck in an attempt to cope with her loss and gain a focus for her pain. However, this initially cathartic relationship soon begins to border on the obsessive, and Camille’s family begin to question her state of mind as she devotes more and more time to Franck. While the film hints at a possible sexual relationship between Franck and Mathieu in the opening scenes, sexuality is not [...]

by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009   
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indieWIRE’s Critics’ Poll: Top Ten

Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve in A Christmas Tale

Best Films of 2008: indieWIRE’s Critics’ Poll

#
BEST FILM
Points
Mentions

1
The Flight of the Red Balloon
495
43

2
A Christmas Tale
454
38

3
WALL-E
368
32

4
Wendy and Lucy
366
36

5
Happy-Go-Lucky
346
31

6
Paranoid Park
335
31

7
Still Life
330
31

8
Silent Light
310
26

9
Synecdoche, New York
290
25

10
Waltz with Bashir
283
27

 

Asia Argento in The Last Mistress

#
BEST PERFORMANCE
Points
Mentions

1
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
548
49

2
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
514
46

3
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
462
46

4
Sean Penn, Milk
424
41

5
Juliette Binoche, The Flight of the Red Balloon
404
38

6
Asia Argento, Boarding Gate, Mother of Tears, The Last Mistress
152
15

7
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
120
12

8
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
114
12

9
Guillaume Depardieu, The Duchess of Langeais
104
11

10
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche, New York
98
10

by Andre Soares | December 26, 2008   
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Oscar 2007 Presenters

Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

AMPAS has announced the — supposedly complete — roster of presenters at the upcoming Oscar ceremony, which will be held next Sunday, February 25, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
The updated list consists of: Ben Affleck, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jessica Biel, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz,Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., and Kirsten Dunst.

Also, Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Al Gore, Eva Green, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hugh Jackman, Diane Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Greg Kinnear, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, James McAvoy, Tobey Maguire,Clive Owen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jerry Seinfeld, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Meryl Streep, John [...]

by Andre Soares | February 21, 2007   
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Honorary Oscars Bypass Women

Mary Pickford

At the 1936 Academy Awards ceremony, D. W. Griffith became the first individual to win an Honorary Award for his body of work. Seventy-one years and 77 (my count*) Honorary Oscar winners later, a mere eight women have been recognized for their cinematic oeuvre. The chosen 8 — 6 of them actresses, plus one actress-producer — are: Greta Garbo (at the 1955 ceremony), Lillian Gish (1971), actress-producer Mary Pickford (1976), editor Margaret Booth (1978), Barbara Stanwyck (1982), Myrna Loy (1991), Sophia Loren (1991), and Deborah Kerr (1994).
Considering the amount of female talent that has gone un-honored these past seven decades, I find it impossible not to believe that the Board of Governors of the Academy of [...]

by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007   
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Best Films – 2002

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]

by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005   
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