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Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected 'usual suspects' outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]

  Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson's The Daily: "For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke's latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you're watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than [...]

Romain Duris in The Beat That My Heart Skipped (top); Guillaume Canet, Daniel Brühl, Alex Ferns in Merry Christmas (middle); Roni Hadar in Go, See and Become (bottom) This year's winners of the French equivalent to the Oscars, the Prix César, will be announced on Feb. 25 at a ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Best actress nominee Valérie Lemercier (for Palais [...]

The Academy Award nominations are in. Brokeback Mountain (above, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) led the pack with 8 nods. Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha tied with six nominations each, while Munich and Capote received five nominations apiece. Of the aforementioned six films, the one left out of the best picture race was Memoirs of a Geisha. Even [...]