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Cannes 2009 Aftermath at the LA WEEKLY

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 a measure of how shockingly strong this year was that the fest still had room for very good fare in the 20-film Un Certain Regard sidebar, from Israeli first-timer Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open [above] to the wonderful Colombian entry The Wind Journeys by Ciro Guerra, in which an [...]

Cannes 2009: Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON

 
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 ever, the playful, challenging, sometimes shocking director of Hidden, Funny Games and Time of the Wolf solidly resists answering the ‘what’s it all about?’ question and makes you work hard to make sense of what you’re seeing. As in Code Unknown, he resists focusing on one story or [...]

César 2006: Nominees

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 royal!) will act as Mistress of Ceremony.
The best French film nominees are Jacques Audiard’s Bafta-winning psychological drama De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped, which garnered nine other nominations, including best actor (Romain Duris); Christian Carion’s Academy Award-nominated war drama Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas, with a total [...]

Oscar 2006: Nominations

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 though he’s not a film, George Clooney also received multiple nominations, three in all: best director and best original screenplay (with Grant Heslov) for Good Night and Good Luck., and a best supporting actor nod for Syriana. Clooney has just made Oscar history by becoming the first actor-director to be nominated for different films in [...]

Chicago Film Critics Awards 2005

2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: January 9, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Jennifer Esposito, Don Cheadle in Crash
 

Best Film:
Brokeback Mountain
* Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
A History of Violence
King Kong
Best Foreign-Language Film:
* Hidden
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
2046
Downfall
Best Documentary:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
* Grizzly Man
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Best Director:
George Clooney for Good Night and Good Luck.
* David Cronenberg for A History of Violence
Peter Jackson for King Kong
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg for Munich
Best Actor:
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote
Terrence Howard in Hustle & [...]

Southeastern Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Southeastern Film Critics Association winners: December 19, 2005
 

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Runners-up: Good Night and Good Luck., Capote, Crash, A History of Violence, The Constant Gardener, Syriana, Cinderella Man, King Kong, Walk the Line
Best Foreign-Language Film: Hidden directed by Michael Haneke
Best Documentary: March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, [...]

San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 12, 2005
 

 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Best Foreign-Language Film: Hidden directed by Michael Haneke
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Costner, The Upside of Anger
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Screenplay: George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog
Marlon Riggs Award (for local talent): Jenni Olson for The Joy of Life
 
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Site
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

2005 European Film Award Winners

Michael Haneke’s compelling and quite disturbing Caché / Hidden was the big winner at the 2005 European Film Awards held this evening in Berlin. The psychological-political thriller was chosen best film, in addition to wins for director Haneke, actor Daniel Auteuil (above, with Juliette Binoche), and a best editing award for Michael Hudecek and Nadine Muse.
Berlin Film Festival winner Julia Jentsch won the best European actress award for her superb portrayal of one of the young leaders of the anti-Nazi German resistance in Sophie Scholl – Die Letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. Jentsch also won the Jameson People’s Choice Award, and so did Sophie Scholl’s director, fellow Berlin Film Festival winner Marc
Rothemund.
Orlando [...]

European Film Awards 2005

2005 European Film Awards
2005 European Film Award winners: Berlin on Dec. 3, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Axel Schmidt / Action Press
 

Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche in Hidden
 

EUROPEAN FILM
BRØDRE (Brothers), Denmark/UK/Sweden/Norway
Directed by Susanne Bier
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments14 ApS., Two Brothers Ltd., Sigma Films Ltd., Memfis Int. AB, Fjellape Films
* CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
Directed by Michael Haneke
Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Bavaria Film, BIM Distribuzione
DON’T COME KNOCKING, Germany
Directed by Wim Wenders
Produced by Reverse Angle Production GmbH, Reverse Angle International GmbH, Arte France Cinéma
L’ENFANT (The Child), Belgium/France
Directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Produced by Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, RTBF, Scope Invest, Arte France Cinéma
MY SUMMER OF LOVE, UK
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Produced by Apocalypso Pictures
SOPHIE [...]

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