Mirjana Karanovic Articles

Mirjana Karanovic, David Thornton, Here and There Featuring David Thornton, European Film Award nominee Mirjana Karanovic (for Grbavica in 2006), Cyndi Lauper, Branislav Trifunovic, and Antone Pagan, Darko Lungulov's Here and There was Serbia's initial submission for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (The film was disqualified because it contained too much English-language dialogue.) Here and There follows a jaded middle-aged New [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island The 60th Berlin Film Festival has announced the first seven titles for its Golden Bear Competition line-up. As per the film festival's press release, this initial group is "characterized by up-and-coming young directors, stars and masters of filmmaking like Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski." Scorsese's out-of-competition entry, Shutter Island, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]