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Outfest 2009: CHEF’S SPECIAL, PTOWN DIARIES, Daniel Craig

Outfest 2009 hightlights on Saturday, July 18. Synopses from the Outfest website.

Chef’s Special / Fuera de Carta (Sat, Jul 18th 11:00am, DGA 1)
(Spain, 2008, 111 mins)
In Spanish with English subtitles
video
Directed By: Nacho G. Velilla
SCR: Nacho G. Velilla, Oriol Capel, Antonio Sanchez & David Sanchez
Gay type-A-plus chef Maxi (Javier Cámara, TALK TO HER) is too busy trying to run his chic restaurant and dreaming of a write-up in the Michelin guide to have a personal life. But when his estranged wife dies – leaving him two kids to raise – and a gorgeous Argentine soccer player (Benjamín Vicuña) moves in next door, Maxi may have to change the menu. This tasty Spanish comedy [...]

FOUR CHRISTMASES Tops Box Office

Seth Gordon’s holiday comedy Four Christmases topped the North American box office this Thanksgiving weekend with US$31.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a couple paying a visit to all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day, the film lifted its domestic total to $46.7 million after only five days in release.

Jumping to No. 2 this weekend was Walt Disney’s Bolt, which collected another $26.5 million and brought its cumulative gross to $66.8 million. Featuring the voices of John Travolta and Miley Cyrus, the animated adventure follows a dog who believes he has superpowers until he realizes he’s [...]

LONDON EVENING STANDARD 2007 Winners

Dame Judi Dench roughs up Cate Blanchett after learning that her Notes on a Scandal co-star voted for fellow Dame Helen Mirren as best actress of 2006

As The Queen, Helen Mirren has brought back to her castle just about every best actress award in the United States. Ironically, she hasn’t fared all that well in Britain. First, she lost to Kate Dickie (Red Road) at the British Independent Film Awards and now she’s lost the Evening Standard Award to Judi Dench’s lonely, conniving lesbian teacher in Notes on a Scandal.
As far as the Academy Awards are concerned, there’s no suspense in the best actress category. Barring a meteor crashing into Earth during the Oscar ceremony, Helen Mirren [...]

LONDON EVENING STANDARD Awards 2007

2007 EVENING STANDARD Awards
2007 EVENING STANDARD Winners: Savoy Hotel, February 4, 2007
 

United 93 by Paul Greengrass
 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Best Actor: Daniel Craig, Casino Royale
Best Actress: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen and The Last King of Scotland
The Peter Sellers Award for Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Technical Achievement: Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, The Last King of Scotland and Brothers of the Head
Most Promising Newcomer: Director Paul Andrew Williams, London to Brighton
The Alexander Walker Special Award: Director Stephen Frears, "for making British film reverberate around the world"
 
EVENING STANDARD Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 [...]

BAFTA 2007 Longlists

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom)

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the longlists for the 2007 BAFTA Awards. The lists consist of 15 titles per category following the first round of BAFTA voting.
Casino Royale and The Queen, the two most commercially successful British films of 2006, were mentioned 14 times each.
Others in the longlists are Pan’s Labyrinth, Babel, Children of Men, and The Departed, each with 13 mentions; The Last King of Scotland and Little Miss Sunshine with 12; Volver and Dreamgirls with 10; Apocalypto, The Devil Wears Prada, and Notes on a Scandal with 9; Bobby and Flags of Our Fathers with [...]

MUNICH d: Steven Spielberg

Munich (2005)
Direction: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Tony Kushner and Eric Roth; from George Jonas’ book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team
Cast: Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ciaran Hinds, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Michel Lonsdale, Gila Almagor, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie-Josée Croze, Lynn Cohen, Omar Metwally, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
 

Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Hanns Zischler, Mathieu Kassovitz in Munich
 

Alternately intriguing and irritating, thought-provoking and banal, subtle and patronizing, the biggest surprise about Steven Spielberg’s Munich is that it — however grudgingly — works. The film, which Spielberg himself has referred to as "prayer for peace," follows five men contracted by Israel to avenge the massacre of that country’s athletes during the 1972 Olympic Games in [...]

London Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2005 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: February 9, 2005.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

Best Film
The Aviator – Martin Scorsese
The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry
House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou
* Sideways – Alexander Payne
Best British Film
Ae Fond Kiss . . . – Ken Loach
Finding Neverland – Marc Foster
My Summer of Love – Pawel Pwawlikowski
Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright
* Vera Drake – Mike Leigh
Best Foreign-Language Film
* The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles
A Very Long Engagement – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Bad Education – Pedro Almodóvar
House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou
The Return [...]

ROAD TO PERDITION – Tom Hanks, Paul Newman

Road to Perdition (2002)
Director: Sam Mendes
Screenplay: David Self; from Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner’s graphic novel
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Dylan Baker, Ciarán Hinds, Liam Aiken

 

 
British director Sam Mendes won an Academy Award for his first film, American Beauty, released in 1999. Three years later, for his second film, Road to Perdition, Mendes once again relied on the assistance of cinematographer Conrad L. Hall and composer Thomas Newman to create another stylized look at dysfunctional American families. But instead of 1990s suburbia, Road to Perdition throws us into the warped universe of a Depression-era Midwestern town, a place where family values include loyalty, faith, extortion, [...]

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