Edinburgh Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Edinburgh Film Festival Awards
2009 Edinburgh Film Festival: June 17-28, 2009
After spending three years at a moon base extracting a gas needed to reverse Earth’s energy crisis, an astronaut (Sam Rockwell) is about to return to his home planet when he starts seeing and hearing things. His company has apparently come up with an eerie retirement plan of their own.
Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film: Moon directed by Duncan Jones
Best Performance in a British Feature Film: Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank
Best New International Feature: Easier with Practice by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Best Documentary: Boris Ryzhy by Aliona van der Horst
Best British Short Film: After Tomorrow by Emma Sullivan
Best International Short Film: Princess Margaret BLVD directed by Kazik Radwanksi
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by Deborah Arthur | July 3, 2009
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Tags: Boris Ryzhy, Duncan Jones, Easier with Practice, Edinburgh Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Fish Tank, Humpday, Katie Jarvis, Moon
Sundance 2009: Gay Themes
Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor in I Love You, Phillip Morris
Gay boycott or no, Sundance 2009 has several films dealing — at least to some extent — with gay characters.
The most publicized gay-focused film at Sundance is I Love You, Phillip Morris, about a scary-looking ex-cop (Jim Carrey) who becomes a criminal and is arrested. While in jail, he falls for a fellow inmate (Ewan McGregor). Based on a book by Steve McVicker, I Love You, Phillip Morris was written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, whose writing credits include Bad Santa and Bad News Bears.
Peter Bratt’s La Mission portrays the difficult relationship between a San Francisco gay teen (Jeremy Ray [...]
by Andre Soares | January 17, 2009
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Tags: Benjamin Bratt, Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Humpday, I Love You Phillip Morris, La Mission, One Day in a Life, Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech, Sundance 2009, Sundance Film Festival, Unmade Beds
Sundance 2009: US Dramatic Competition
Sundance 2009: US Dramatic Competition
Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon in The Greatest
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants’ biggest fan is turned upside down after [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 3, 2008
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Tags: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Cary Fukunaga, Film Festivals, Humpday, John Krasinski, Lynn Shelton, Push, Sin Nombre, Sundance 2009, Sundance Film Festival, The Greatest
