Foreign Language Films Articles

Ulrich Tukur in John Rabe (top); City of Life and Death (middle); Lebanon (bottom) A record 69 foreign language films are in the running for the 2010 Golden Globes, Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced. Among the films in the longlist are Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, starring Penelope Cruz; Costa-Gavras socially conscious drama Eden Is West; Xavier Dolan's I Killed [...]

Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days In the LA Weekly, Scott Foundas wonders, "How do you say 'Oscar scandal' in Romanian"? Oscar scandaliu perhaps? I mean, for Zeus' sake, even Scott Foundas' own mother liked Cristian Mungiu's widely praised Cannes Film Festival winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Why didn't those Academy voters who pick the potential [...]

Next January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting "From Amarcord to Z: Posters from Fifty Years of Foreign Language Film Award Winners." The exhibition will open to the public in the Academy's Grand Lobby Gallery on January 19, 2007. Admission is free. The art work is generally superb, and so are some of the films that have won the best [...]