Head-On Articles

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (middle); Tony Leung, Gong Li, Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (bottom) Sight & Sound's Top-Ten (actually top-fourteen) Films 1 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 2 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) and La Niña santa / The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel) 4 2046 (Wong Kar Wai) and Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 6 [...]

Capote, which follows flamboyant writer Truman Capote while he was working on In Cold Blood, was chosen the best film of 2005 by the National Society of Film Critics. As most elsewhere this year, smaller American films and non-American productions took center stage in the voting. Among the other winners were best director David Cronenberg for the social critique A History of Violence, which failed [...]

2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 7, 2006   Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener in Capote   Best Film: Capote (12, on sixth ballot) Runners-up: A History of Violence (11, on sixth ballot); 2046 (fifth ballot) Best Foreign Language Film: Head-On by Fatih Akin (26) Runner-up: 2046 by Wong Kar Wai [...]

Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Head-On The German drama Gegen die Wand / Head-On was selected as Best European Film at the 2004 European Film Awards ceremony held in Barcelona. Directed by Fatih Akin, Head-On tells the story of a young Turkish-German woman (Sibel Kekilli) who marries an older Turkish man (Birol Ünel) in order to escape from her strict Muslim family. Earlier this year, Head-On [...]