Blue Dragon Awards 2009
2009 Blue Dragon Awards
2009 Blue Dragon Awards – Nominations: Nov. 14, 2009
2009 Blue Dragon Awards – Winners: KBS Hall in Seoul on Dec. 2, 2009
Directed by Joon-ho Bong, Mother chronicles the fight of a middle-aged mother to clear the name of her son, accused of a vicious crime. Mother is South Korea’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Awards.
Best Film
Take Off – Yong-hwa Kim
Good Morning President – Jang Jin
Mother – Joon-ho Bong
Thirst – Chan-wook Park
Haeundae – Je-gyun Yun
Best Director
Yong-hwa Kim – Take Off
Jang Jin – Good Morning President
Joon-ho Bong – Mother
Chan-wook Park – Thirst
Je-gyun Yun – Haeundae
Best New Director
Hyeong-cheol Kang – Scandal Makers
Keon-hong Park – Lifting King Kong
Ik-jun Yang – Breathless
Yong-ju Lee – Possessed
Ki-hun [...]
by Irene Young | November 14, 2009
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Tags: Blue Dragon Awards, Bong Joon-Ho, Film Awards, Good Morning President, Haeundae, Mother, Park Chan-Wook, Take Off, Thirst
AFI FEST 2009: Halloween Movies
The Loved Ones by Sean Byrne (top); The Hole by Joe Dante (bottom)
AFI FEST 2009 presented by Audi has announced the list of films scheduled for Halloween. They are:
Joe Dante’s The Hole
Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones
Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright
Michael Stephenson’s Best Worst Movie
All four films will screen on Saturday, October 31, at the Mann Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood.
Presented in 3-D — a first for a feature film at AFI FEST — Joe Dante’s thriller The Hole follows two young brothers who "stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that houses an evil force that can create a physical manifestation of their deep-seated fears. After unwittingly unleashing [...]
by Andre Soares | September 30, 2009
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Tags: AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Best Worst Movie, Film Festivals, Halloween Movies, Horror Movies, Los Angeles Screenings, Mother, Red Riding, The Hole, The Loved Ones, Thrillers, Wake in Fright
Monica Bleibtreu
Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years.
Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are a presentation of Bertold Brecht’s play Mother (1971), the series Doctors in the mid-1990s, and the made-for-television movie Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas (2000), starring The Lives of Others‘ Martina Gedeck.
In 1975, she won a German Television Award for best actress for her performance in the made-for-TV movie Marias letzte [...]
by Andre Soares | May 15, 2009
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Tags: Bertold Brecht, Bettina Oberli, Chris Kraus, Doctors, Four Minutes, Hannah Herzsprung, Hanns Brenner, Hans Steinbichler, Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas, Hilde, Hildegard Knef, Joseph Vilsmaier, Julia Jentsch, Kai Wessel, Katja Flint, Mariz letzte Reise, Marlene, Marlene Dietrich, Martina Gedeck, Max Minsky and Me, Mirjam Kubescha, Monica Bleibtreu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mother, Nicolette Krebitz, Nina Hoss, Run Lola Run, The Heart Is a Dark Forest, The Murder Farm, The Runaway, Ulrike Grote, Vier Minuten
