Contact Help Wanted

European Film Awards 2009

2009 European Film Awards
2009 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 7, 2009
2009 European Film Award winners: Bochum, Germany, on Dec. 12, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (bottom)
 

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
Fish Tank, UK
written and directed by Andrea Arnold
produced by Kees Kasander & Nick Laws
Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In), Sweden
directed by Tomas Alfredson
written by John Ajvide Lindqvist
produced by John Nordling & Carl Molinder
Un Prophète (A Prophet), France
directed by Jacques Audiard
written by Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain based on an original idea by [...]

European Film Awards 2009: Isabelle Huppert to Receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award

Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie (top); Story of Women (middle); and 8 Women, with Catherine Deneuve

Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema. She’s only the third woman to be so honored in this category’s 13-year history. (For the record: the other two were Victoria Abril and Liv Ullmann.)
The fifty-six-year-old Huppert began her career in the early 1970s, appearing in supporting roles in films such as Claude Sautet’s Cesar and Rosalie (1972) and Bertrand Blier’s Going Places (1974). By the end of the decade, she was playing leads in Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978) and Jean-François Adam’s Retour à la bien-aimée (1979), and [...]

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 [...]

Venice 2009: Isabelle Huppert, Michael Moore, George Lucas

George Lucas at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Isabelle Huppert

Michael Moore
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Venice 2009: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Giovanna Mezzogiorno Photos

Giovanna Mezzogiorno at the Negli Occhi photocall at the Palazzo del Casino during the 66th Venice Film Festival. Photo: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images
Images Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre
Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Actors David Gozlan, William Nadylam, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert and director Claire Denis at the White Material photocall at the Palazzo del Casino. Photo: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images

Giovanna Mezzogiorno at the Negli Occhi premiere. Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto / 2009 WireImage

Elisa Sednaoui

Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards
2009 Karlovy Vary Film Festival: July 3-11
Photos: © Karlovy Vary Film Festival
 

Set in a small town in southern Morocco, Frédéric Dumont’s Angel at Sea is a coming-of-age tale about a 12-year-old whose life undergoes a radical change after his father tells him an old secret. In addition to winning the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Crystal Globe for best film, Angel at Sea also earned its (adult) star, Olivier Gourmet, the best actor award (tied with Paul Giamatti for the soul-stealing comedy Cold Souls). Also in the Angel at Sea cast: Anne Consigny and Martin Nissen.
 
OFFICIAL SELECTION – COMPETITION
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Angel at Sea / Un ange à la mer
Director: [...]

Cannes 2009: Asia Argento, Claudia Schiffer, Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci

Claudia Schiffer (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Asia Argento (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images)

Isabelle Huppert (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

Quentin Tarantino, Mélanie Laurent, Mike Myers (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Monica Bellucci (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
 

Cannes 2009: Isabelle Huppert, Robin Wright, Jean-Marc Barr, Monica Bellucci

Sharmila Tagore, Isabelle Huppert, Robin Wright (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)

Jean-Marc Barr at Montblanc Party

Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)

Rachel Weisz (Photo by Tony Barson/WireImage)
 

Best Films – 2002

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]

Best Films – 2001

 
FILM

Gosford Park
d: Robert Altman; scr: Julian Fellowes
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
d: Ashutosh Gowariker; scr:
Mulholland Dr.
d, scr: David Lynch
 
CHECK THESE OUT
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
d: Woody Allen
Monster’s Ball)
d: Marc Forster; scr:
No Man’s Land
d: Danis Tanovic; scr:
ACTOR
Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Gael García Bernal (Y tu mamá también / And Your Mother Too)
Rene Bitorajac (No Man’s Land)
Ricardo Darín (El Hijo de la novia / Son of the Bride)
Ethan Hawke (Training Day)
Diego Luna (Y tu mamá también)
Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!)
Haley Joel Osment (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
Sean Penn (I Am Sam)
ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert (La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher)
Juliane Köhler (Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa)
Audrey Tautou (Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain / Amelie)
Maribel [...]

I HEART HUCKABEES – Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin

i ♥ huckabees / I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Director: David O. Russell
Screenplay: David O. Russell and Jeff Baena
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Tippi Hedren, Talia Shire
 

 
SPANKING THE NIETZSCHE
Beginning with Spanking the Monkey (not a film about animal abuse), David O. Russell has made a reputation as a director of quirky comedies. I Heart Huckabees is no exception. Not that the comedy works — the film is as funny as a funeral mass — but simply because in this age of formulaic filmmaking, I was flabbergasted to be watching a Hollywood movie that is so abrasively unconventional both in form and content.
The storyline — if the film’s meandering thread [...]

Recently Posted

• Oscar 2010: Animated Short Film Semi-Finalists
• Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
• Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture - Drama
• Noel Clarke's ADULTHOOD on IFC Festival Direct
• Oscar 2010: Documentary Feature Semi-Finalists
• THE FUPLERS: Q&A with Matt Koval
• Yoav Shamir's DEFAMATION Opens in NY/LA
• TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001
• FOUR SEASONS LODGE Screenings
• Oscar 2010: Hash Hamilton to Direct Oscar Telecast

Most Popular Tags

2008 Oscar 2010 Oscar Academy Awards Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Animation Best Films Books Box Office Brokeback Mountain Censorship Classic Movies Daniel Day-Lewis Documentaries DVDs Film Awards Film Festivals Film Reviews Gay Film Festivals Gay Interest Gay Movies Heath Ledger Helen Mirren Interviews London Film Festival London Film Festival 2009 Los Angeles Screenings Martin Scorsese New York Screenings No Country for Old Men Oscar Movies Photos Political Movies Politics Sex Shorts Silent Films Slumdog Millionaire Sundance Film Festival Trailers Turner Classic Movies


Related Posts

I HEART HUCKABEES On-Set Blowup ParodySOLDIERS PAY / UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ Double BillToronto Film Festival 2004Christian Bale Flipping Out on TERMINATOR SALVATION Set VideosCentral Ohio Film Critics Awards 2005Sally Potter’s RAGE Multi-Platform Release