Niels Arestrup Articles

Kim Hye-ja in Bong Joon-ho's Mother National Society of Film Critics Award Predictions: CARLOS vs. THE SOCIAL NETWORK? The Best Actress race may be a bit tricky. A fair share of the NSFC critics hail from either New York or Los Angeles. The New York critics picked Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right; the Los Angeles critics picked Kim Hye-ja for Mother. Don't [...]

Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network CARLOS, David Fincher, TOY STORY 3: New York Film Critics' Predictions I was dead wrong when I predicted that the Los Angeles Film Critics Association would pick Another Year's Lesley Manville as their Best Actress of 2010. So, what's a guy to do but make the same prediction for the New York Film Critics Circle? Else, I'd say Tilda Swinton [...]

Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher's The Social Network The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is probably one of the two most influential — Oscarwise — film critics' groups in the United States. The other being, of course, the New York Film Critics Circle. (The National Society of Film Critics would come in third, chiefly because its choices tend to be less Oscar friendly.) [...]

A Prophet, Jacques Audiard's internationally acclaimed prison drama, was the big winner at the 2010 César Awards ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard served as the ceremony's honorary president. She was assisted by co-presenters Gad Elmaleh and Valérie Lemercier. Starring relative newcomer Tahar Rahim as a new inmate who must fend off for himself while prison, A [...]