Cannes 2009: ADRIFT, DRAG ME TO HELL, IN THE BEGINNING

At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar:
"I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I’m going to say right up front — following in the footsteps of City of God director Fernando Meirelles, Dhalia is the next great Brazilian filmmaker on the verge of breaking out. Adrift is his calling card, a gorgeous family drama about a beautiful young girl and her parents. It’s not a masterpiece, but it is definitely one of the better films I’ve seen here that offers [...]

by Massimo David | May 22, 2009   
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New York Film Critics Online Awards 2005

2005 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2005 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 12, 2005
 

Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, William Baldwin in The Squid and the Whale
 

Best Film: The Squid and the Whale
Runners up (in alphabetical order):
The Best of Youth
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
Munich
Syriana
Best Foreign-Language Film: Downfall, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Best Director: Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Best Supporting Actor: Oliver Platt, Casanova
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
Best Documentary / Nonfiction Film: Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of [...]

by Andre Soares | December 12, 2005   
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