Persepolis Articles

Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Three days ago a group of 200 Fundamentalist Muslims protested outside the headquarters of a television station in Tunis for showing Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Academy Award-nominated animated feature Persepolis. What irked the crowd was that Persepolis features an image of God, while Islam forbids all such depictions. "Arab Spring" or no, Nessma TV Nebil Karoui has apologized [...]

2008 Nastri d'Argento National Union of Italian Film Journalists' 2008 Nastri d'Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008 2008 Nastri d'Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead   Best Director Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo Daniele LUCHETTI [...]

2008 César Awards French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences' 2008 César du Cinéma nominations: January 25, 2008 2008 César du Cinéma winners: the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on February 22, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   BEST FILM / MEILLEUR FILM * La graine et le mulet / The Secret of the Grain directed by Abdellatif Kechiche produced by Claude [...]

2008 Étoiles d'Or 2008 French Film Critics' Étoiles d'Or winners: Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, February 18, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   According to French film critics, the top French film of 2007 was not the much-ballyhooed La Vie en Rose, but the (thus far) little-known internationally The Secret of the Grain. The winner of the Special Jury Prize and the International [...]