Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2008
2008 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2008 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 3-14, 2008
In Ognjen Svilicic’s Armin, a father and son travel to the big city where they encounter myriad temptations. Armin is Croatia’s entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Oscar.
FIPRESCI Awards
Best Foreign Language Film: Armin (Croatia) directed by Ognjen Svilicic
Best Actor: Song Gang-ho for Secret Sunshine (South Korea) directed by Lee Chang-dong
Best Actress: Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) directed by Cristian Mungiu.
Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, which opens in the U.S. in May 2008, was the opening gala presentation at the 2008 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy follows a woman [...]
by Andre Soares | January 14, 2008
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Tags: Anamaria Marinca, Armin, Autism: The Musical, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Helen Hunt, Palm Springs Film Festival, Song Gang-ho, Then She Found Me
CAST AWAY – Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt
Cast Away (2000)
Direction: Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay: William Broyles Jr.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Lari White
Many will see Cast Away as a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit. Others will prefer the more mundane explanation that the film merely depicts a man following his animal survival instincts, which propel him to remain alive almost against his will. Whichever way one chooses to view the survival of Tom Hanks‘ Federal Express engineer Chuck Noland (No-land, get it?) after being stranded for years on a desert island (mostly shot in Monuriki, Fiji), Cast Away is little more than an elaborate star vehicle disguised as an existential adventure film. Indeed, this Robert Zemeckis production offers little depth in its presentation of [...]
by Andre Soares | October 29, 2004
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Tags: Adventure Movies, Cast Away, Film Reviews, Helen Hunt, Lari White, Oscar 2000, Oscar Movies, Robert Zemeckis, Romantic Movies, Tom Hanks
Toronto Film Festival 2004
The 2004 Toronto Film Festival will screen 321 features and short films from 61 countries.
Among the festival’s 100 world premieres are Being Julia, starring Annette Bening and directed by István Szabó; David O. Russell’s comedy i heart huckabees, with Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin as a duo of "existential detectives"; and two biopics: Beyond the Sea, directed by Kevin Spacey, who also stars as 1950s-60s singer and actor Bobby Darin, and Kinsey, which stars Liam Neeson as controversial scientist Alfred Kinsey, who created a furor in the postwar years with his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
Other festival highlights include The Good Woman, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan starring Helen Hunt; Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre musique; [...]
by Andre Soares | September 2, 2004
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Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Film Festivals, Helen Hunt, Hilary Swank, Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Spacey, Kinsey, Liam Neeson, Notre musique, Toronto Film Festival
