Rachid Bouchareb Articles
OUTSIDE THE LAW's Rachid Bouchareb Oscar Red Carpet: Photo
Rachid Bouchareb Rachid Bouchareb, whose Outside the Law was an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, on the Oscar 2011 red carpet at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA February 27, 2011. Outside the Law lost the Oscar to Susanne Bier's Danish drama In a Better World. The other nominees in the Best Foreign Language Film category were Biutiful (Mexico), [...]
Cannes 2010: Rachid Bouchareb's OUTSIDE THE LAW Screened Under Tight Security
Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, the stars of Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory, join forces once again in Bouchareb's Outside the Law First, Cannes Film Festival organizers pissed off Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government by showing Sabina Guzzanti's documentary Draquila: Italy Trembles, which delves into the corruption and decay found in Berlusconi's Italy. Today came Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law, which seriously pissed off members [...]
Cannes 2010: Rachid Bouchareb's OUTSIDE THE LAW Sparks Controversy
Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi / Outside the Law hasn't even had its Cannes Official Competition screening, yet — that will be on May 21 — and it's already being reviled by right-wing politicians and French war veterans. Directed and written by Bouchareb, Outside the Law is a drama-thriller about Algeria's struggle for independence from France following World War II — an issue that remains an ugly, [...]
Golden Globes 2010: Best Foreign Language Film Longlist
Ulrich Tukur in John Rabe (top); City of Life and Death (middle); Lebanon (bottom) A record 69 foreign language films are in the running for the 2010 Golden Globes, Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced. Among the films in the longlist are Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, starring Penelope Cruz; Costa-Gavras socially conscious drama Eden Is West; Xavier Dolan's I Killed [...]