Departures Articles

Alan Parker's Pink Floyd The Wall (top); Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (middle); Masahiro Motoki in Yojiro Takita's Oscar-winning Departures (bottom) The 2010 edition of Ebertfest, Roger Ebert's film festival of overlooked (and not-so-overlooked) movies, kicked off at 7 p.m. this evening with a screening of Alan Parker's (not-at-all) overlooked Pink Floyd The Wall. (I'm no fan of the film; I was told [...]

2009 Asian Film Awards 2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009 2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   In Kyoshi Kurosawa's best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it's outsourced to China), but can't get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his [...]

2009 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 6-19, 2008   Departures by Yojiro Takita   AUDIENCE AWARDS Best Narrative Feature: Departures (Japan) directed by Yojiro Takita Best Documentary Feature: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (USA) directed by Eric Bricker   CRITICS AWARDS (foreign-language films submitted for the 2009 Academy Awards) FIPRESCI Prize: Revanche, directed by Götz Spielmann FIPRESCI [...]

Wide acclaim and a handful of top European Film Awards didn't help Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah land a spot in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' list of best foreign-language film semi-finalists. And in case you're looking for Let the Right One In among the nine films still in the running, you won't find it there. Although the Swedish vampire drama was chosen the [...]