U.S. Critics’ Awards 2007
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
Much has been said about the absence of a front-runner for this year’s Academy Awards. Be that as it may, one film is clearly the favorite among the myriad film critics’ groups in the United States.
Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men has been chosen the top film of 2007 by nearly all critics’ societies, associations, and circles in the US and by the Toronto critics.
What often crosses my mind whenever I look at those award lists is their lack of variety. (That could be the result of the way votes are tabulated; if so, perhaps the rules should be changed.) Generally speaking, the [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2008
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Tags: Critics Choices, Down to the Bone, Film Awards, Grbavica, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julian Schnabel, Marion Cotillard, Mirjana Karanovic, No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Vera Farmiga
2007 Swiss Film Award Winners
The 2007 Swiss Film Awards were announced yesterday at the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival.
Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (right), which is one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign-language film Academy Award, was selected as best Swiss film of 2006. Vitus, the story of a reluctant piano prodigy and his grandfather, stars Teo Gheorghiu and Bruno Ganz. It has sold nearly 200,000 tickets since its release in German-speaking Switzerland last year.
The best documentary winner was Heidi Specogna’s The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez, about a Guatemalan street kid who, after immigrating to the United States, joined the U.S. marine corps hoping to gain U.S. citizenship but ended up as the first dead U.S. soldier in the Iraq [...]
by Andre Soares | January 25, 2007
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Tags: Andrea Staka, Bettina Oberli, Bruno Ganz, Das Fräulein, Film Awards, Fredi M. Murer, Late Bloomers, Mirjana Karanovic, Swiss Film Awards, The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
Berlin 2006: REQUIEM, GRBAVICA, THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING
Moritz Bleibtreu in The Elementary Particles (top); Sandra Hüller in Requiem (bottom)
More on the Berlin International Film Festival:
Four German films will be screened in the Official Competition.
They are: Oscar Roehler’s literary adaptation Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles; Hans-Christian Schmid’s exorcism drama Requiem; Matthias Glasner’s Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, the story of a convicted rapist who is freed after 12 years behind bars; and Valeska Grisebach’s Sehnsucht / Desire (right), a love story set in eastern Germany, and starring Andreas Müller and Ilka Welz.
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At European Films, Boyd van Hoeij gives his take on the films screened at Berlin 2006, including Jasmila žbanic’s post-Bosnian war drama Grbavica, the Icelandic gay soccer comedy Strákarnir Okkar / Eleven Men [...]
by Andre Soares | February 15, 2006
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Tags: Berlin 2006, Berlin Film Festival, Film Festivals, Grbavica, Jasmila Zbanic, Marwan Hamed, Mirjana Karanovic, Requiem, The Elementary Particles, The Yacoubian Building
