Isabelle Adjani: Best Actress César Winner
L’ENFER D’HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT: Other César Winners
Veteran Isabelle Adjani, 54, received the Best Actress César from the hands of Gérard Depardieu, who announced, "Ah, [the winner] is a friend!"
In Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s Skirt Day, Adjani plays a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown, having to deal with obnoxious, misogynistic students in a rough, immigrant-filled Parisian neighborhood. The teacher ends up taking matters in her own hands when her students ridicule and harass her on the day she shows up wearing a skirt in class. Her solution? Point a gun at them and hold them hostage.
Now with five César wins in the Best Actress category, Adjani has broken her own record. Her previous wins were [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 27, 2010
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Tags: César 2010, César Awards, Film Awards, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, Skirt Day
Cesar 2010
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics)
The Cesar winners will be announced on Feb. 27.
MEILLEUR FILM / BEST FILM
A L’ORIGINE / IN THE BEGINNING, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli
LE CONCERT / THE CONCERT, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu
LES HERBES FOLLES / WILD GRASS, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais
LA JOURNÉE DE LA JUPE / SKIRT DAY, Bénédicte Lesage and Ariel Askénazi; directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
RAPT, Patrick Sobelman, Diana Elbaum et Sébastien Delloye; directed by Lucas Belvaux
* UN PROPHÈTE / A PROPHET, Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat et Marco Cherqui; directed by Jacques Audiard
WELCOME, Christophe Rossignon; directed [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 27, 2010
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Tags: A Prophet, César Awards, César Awards 2010, Coco Before Chanel, Film Awards, I Killed My Mother, In the Beginning, Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Audiard, Philippe Lioret, Tahar Rahim, The White Ribbon, Xavier Giannoli
A PROPHET, WELCOME, Isabelle Adjani, AVATAR: Cesar 2010 Nominees
Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Vincent Lindon, Farit Ayverdi in Welcome (middle); Yvan Atall in Rapt (bottom)
With 13 nods, Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet — one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign language film Oscar, leads the 2010 Cesar Award nominations.
In addition to best film and best director mentions, A Prophet is also up for best actor and male newcomer (Tahar Rahim, with two nods), best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup), best male newcomer (Adel Bencherif), best screenplay (Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit), and best editing (Juliette Welfling).
The runners-up are Xavier Giannoli’s In the Beginning, the tale of a con man (best actor nominee François Cluzet) involved in the building [...]
by Steve Montgomery | January 23, 2010
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Tags: A Prophet, Alain Resnais, César Awards, César Awards 2010, Film Awards, In the Beginning, Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Audiard, Rapt, Skirt Day, Tahar Rahim, Vincent Lindon, Welcome, Wild Grass, Xavier Giannoli
Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Mike Nichols Sign Another “Free Polanski” Petition
Actors Louis Garrel, Isabelle Adjani, Elsa Zylberstein, and Isabelle Huppert; filmmakers Danièle Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Jordan, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, and Mike Nichols; formerly persecuted writer Salman Rushdie; author Milan Kundera; and stylist Diane von Furstenberg are among those who have signed another petition demanding freedom for 76-year-old filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held at a Swiss prison while awaiting word from local authorities whether he’ll be extradited to the United States on a charge of having sex with a minor in the late 1970s.
In his journal, La Règle du jeu, writer Bernard-Henri Lévy has asked for signatures supporting Polanski’s release. Lévy’s petition reads:
Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he came to receive [...]
by Andre Soares | September 29, 2009
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Tags: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, La Règle du jeu, Louis Garrel, Mike Nichols, Milan Kundera, Politics, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski Petition, Salman Rushdie
Oscar 2009: The Academy Gets More Artsy
Michael Cieply in the New York Times:
"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, once the chummiest club in show business, is becoming more artsy and indie-minded just as much of the Hollywood establishment hoped to make it more commercial."
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"Actors, who traditionally dominated the rolls, have lost ground, as their branch became especially fussy about admissions. At the same time executive members have picked up strength, as have foreigners — roughly a quarter of the 115 new members invited in 2007, for instance, worked on films like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Queen — and those from the independent film world.
"The financial stakes are considerable. The last Oscar telecast, in February, was [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 1, 2008
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Tags: 2009 Oscar, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Awards, Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H.