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
Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009
Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009 poster (top); Alexandre and Victor Carril in Give Me Your Hand (middle); Hello My Name Is Lesbian by Iben Haahr Andersen, Minna Grooss (bottom)
The 2009 edition of the Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival runs Oct. 16-25.
Among the festival’s "themes" this year are "Documenting Denmark," "Daddy Cool," "Cry for Me Argentina," and "Bollywood Goes Gay."
Rückenwind by Jan Krüger (top); Daddy’s Love by Mette Aakerholm (middle); Nobody Passes Perfectly by Saskia Bisp (bottom)
Screening films include Jan Krüger’s Rückenwind, which follows a young couple (Sebastian Schlecht, Eric Golub) on a bike trip in the woods that turns nightmarish after they meet with a lone mother and her shy teenage son; Iben Haahr [...]
by Andre Soares | September 26, 2009
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Tags: A Fish Child, Conrad Veidt, Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Daddy's Love, Different from the Others, Dream Boy, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Give Me Your Hand, Lesbian Interest, Louis Garrel, Love Songs, Lucía Puenzo, Nobody Passes Perfectly, Rückenwind
César 2006
2006 César Awards
2006 César du Cinéma winners: Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on February 25, 2006
2006 César Nominations
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Romain Duris in The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Meilleur film français / Best French Film
* De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas (Christian Carion)
Le Petit lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois)
L’Enfant / The Child (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
Va, vis et deviens / Go, See and Become (Radu Mihaileanu)
Meilleur film étranger / Best Foreign Film
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenabar)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
* Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Walk on Water (Eytan Fox)
Meilleur [...]
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2006
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Tags: Cécile de France, César Awards, Darwin's Nightmare, Film Awards, Jacques Audiard, Linh Dan Phan, Louis Garrel, Michel Bouquet, Million Dollar Baby, Nathalie Baye, Niels Arestrup, The Beat That My Heart Skipped
