Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 3, 2006
Mathieu Kassovitz, Eric Bana in Munich
Best Film: Munich
Best Foreign-Language Film: Downfall directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Best Documentary (tie): Murderball by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro and Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Munich
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Best Original Screenplay: George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner and [...]
by Andre Soares | January 3, 2006
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Tags: Eric Roth, Film Awards, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Maria Bello, Munich, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg
MUNICH Review III
Mathieu Kassovitz, Eric Bana in Munich
MUNICH Review: Part II
A seriously miscast Eric Bana doesn’t help matters any. Bana may look great with his shirt off, but he fails to convey both Avner’s dedication to the fight and his ever-multiplying inner demons. While hunting his targets, the actor seems as hapless as Inspector Clouseau, and each time he gets to kill someone, he looks as squeamish as if he were going to clip his victim’s really dirty fingernails. Worse yet, there’s the accent problem.
As in Schindler’s List, the casting of English-speaking actors as continental Europeans and Israelis robs Munich of some much-needed authenticity. Bana and a horrendously over-the-top Geoffrey Rush (as Mossad officer Ephraim), both Australians, come up with grating imitations [...]
by Andre Soares | December 21, 2005
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Tags: Eric Bana, Film Reviews, Geoffrey Rush, Gila Almagor, Marie-Josée Croze, Munich, Omar Metwally
MUNICH II – Eric Bana
MUNICH Review: Part I
On the positive side, for the first time since Bruce feasted along the New England coast Spielberg has made a film in which the strings are only sporadically visible. The fact that he had to rush through production in order to have Munich ready by year’s end — this is reportedly the first film he has directed without relying on storyboards — helped to give this philosophical actioner an edge it might otherwise have lacked. The film’s technical aspects are generally first-rate, while John Williams provides what could well be both the most understated and the most effective score of his career.
And since the film in question is a thriller, Spielberg and editor Michael Kahn keep [...]
by Andre Soares | December 21, 2005
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Tags: Eric Bana, Eric Roth, Film Reviews, Munich, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
MUNICH d: Steven Spielberg
Munich (2005)
Direction: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Tony Kushner and Eric Roth; from George Jonas’ book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team
Cast: Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ciaran Hinds, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Michel Lonsdale, Gila Almagor, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie-Josée Croze, Lynn Cohen, Omar Metwally, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Hanns Zischler, Mathieu Kassovitz in Munich
Alternately intriguing and irritating, thought-provoking and banal, subtle and patronizing, the biggest surprise about Steven Spielberg’s Munich is that it — however grudgingly — works. The film, which Spielberg himself has referred to as "prayer for peace," follows five men contracted by Israel to avenge the massacre of that country’s athletes during the 1972 Olympic Games in [...]
by Andre Soares | December 21, 2005
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Tags: Daniel Craig, Eric Bana, Eric Roth, Film Reviews, George Jonas, Munich, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Political Movies, Steven Spielberg, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Tony Kushner
Washington Film Critics Awards 2005
2005 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association winners: December 12, 2005
Above, Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush in the political thriller Munich. The most surprising aspect of the Washington Film Critics’ list was the total exclusion of critics’ fave Brokeback Mountain.
Best Film: Munich
Best Foreign-Language Film: Kung Fu Hustle directed by Stephen Chow
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Munich
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dan Futterman, Capote
Best Documentary: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by Alex Gibney
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of [...]
by Andre Soares | December 12, 2005
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Tags: Amy Adams, Dan Futterman, Film Awards, Kung Fu Hustle, Munich, Paul Giamatti, Paul Haggis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg
