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
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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 [...]
by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005
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Tags: Andrew Lesnie, Angelo Badalamenti, Best Films, Big Eden, Classic Movies, David Lynch, Diego Luna, Ethan Hawke, Heath Ledger, Howard Shore, Isabelle Huppert, James Horner, Jon Voight, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Louise Fletcher, Macy Gray, Maggie Smith, Marc Forster, Monster's Ball, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Dr., Nan Martin, Naomi Watts, Roberto Schaefer, Sean Penn, Sissy Spacek, The Lord of the Rings, Training Day, Woody Allen
Directors Guild Awards 2005
2005 Directors Guild Awards
2005 Directors Guild of America winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 29, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
Best Director – Motion Picture
Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
Marc Forster – Finding Neverland
* Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford – Ray
Alexander Payne – Sideways
Best Director – Documentary
* Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni – The Story of the Weeping Camel
Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski – Born Into Brothels
Ross McElwee – Bright Leaves
Michael Moore – Fahrenheit 9/11
Jehane Noujaim – Control Room
Best Director – Television Movie
Robert Altman – Tanner on Tanner, Parts 1-4
Stephen Hopkins – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Lloyd Kramer – The [...]
by Andre Soares | January 29, 2005
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Tags: Alexander Payne, Clint Eastwood, Control Room, Directors Guild of America, Fahrenheit 9/11, Film Awards, Jehane Noujaim, Marc Forster, Martin Scorsese, Taylor Hackford
FINDING NEVERLAND: J. M. Barrie and PETER PAN
Initially, Miramax wouldn’t even consider German-born director Marc Forster for Finding Neverland. "My agent called and said, ‘They don’t see the relationship between this and your dead-baby movie,’" Forster later recalled, referring to his first feature film, Everything Put Together, a 2000 drama about a mother whose baby dies of sudden infant death syndrome. (Radha Mitchell, who plays Mary Barrie in Finding Neverland, has the lead in Everything Put Together.) Source: Newsweek.
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Finding Neverland was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 2003. However, Columbia Pictures had the rights to James M. Barrie’s play for their film version of Peter Pan (directed by P. J. Hogan), which was to be released in December 2003.
Columbia refused to allow Miramax [...]
by Andre Soares | January 13, 2005
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Tags: A. S. Byatt, Charles Frohman, Finding Neverland, Freddie Highmore, Gay Interest, Gerald du Maurier, James M. Barrie, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Llewelyn Davies, Marc Forster, Nina Boucicault, Peter Pan, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
FINDING NEVERLAND – Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet
Finding Neverland (2004)
Direction: Marc Forster
Screenplay: David Magee; from Allan Knee’s play The Man Who Was Peter Pan
Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore, Dustin Hoffman, Joe Prospero, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald
Back in 2001, German-born director Marc Forster brought a much welcome touch of non-Hollywood flavor to the independently made psychological drama Monster’s Ball. Besides the daring (if way overlong) sex scenes, that film imparted a refreshingly realistic atmosphere that was much enhanced by Forster’s minimalist touch.
As the title implies, Finding Neverland, also directed by Forster, and adapted by David Magee from Allan Knee’s play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, has absolutely nothing to do with reality, whether James M. Barrie’s or anyone else’s. Still, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 12, 2005
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Tags: David Magee, Film Reviews, Finding Neverland, Freddie Highmore, James M. Barrie, Johnny Depp, Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Marc Forster, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, Radha Mitchell
MONSTER’S BALL – Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry
Monster’s Ball (2001)
Director: Marc Forster
Screenplay: Milo Addica and Will Rokos
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def, Coronji Calhoun
In Monster’s Ball — the title refers to the macabre partying held the night before the execution of a death-row inmate — first-time screenwriters Milo Addica and Will Rokos join forces with third-time feature-film director Marc Forster to create a motion picture of powerful moments. Those range from the film’s dream-like introduction to an uncomfortable and surprisingly explicit sex scene. Other memorable sequences include the suicide of a young man in front of his stunned father, a graphic electric chair execution, and the sight of a bereaved widow watching her son die in [...]
by Andre Soares | October 14, 2004
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Tags: Billy Bob Thornton, Film Reviews, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Marc Forster, Monster's Ball, Oscar 2001, Oscar Movies, Peter Boyle, Sex
