Roy Andersson Articles

Alan Parker's Pink Floyd The Wall (top); Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (middle); Masahiro Motoki in Yojiro Takita's Oscar-winning Departures (bottom) The 2010 edition of Ebertfest, Roger Ebert's film festival of overlooked (and not-so-overlooked) movies, kicked off at 7 p.m. this evening with a screening of Alan Parker's (not-at-all) overlooked Pink Floyd The Wall. (I'm no fan of the film; I was told [...]

Another major critical surprise: The Hurt Locker (above, with Jeremy Renner) was voted best picture of 2009 by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. The Iraq War drama's director, Kathryn Bigelow, received top honors as well. All kidding aside, a more unique choice — though not all that unexpected considering that it's San Francisco — was Colin Firth for best actor. In Tom Ford's A [...]

2008 Golden Beetles Swedish Film Institute's 2008 Golden Beetle (aka Guldbagge) nominations: January 8, 2008. A special six-member jury later picked the Best Achievement winners. 2008 Golden Beetle winners: Stockholm, January 21, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     BEST FILM Darling, produced by Fredrik Heinig * Du levande / You the Living, produced by Pernilla Sandström Leo, produced by Anna Anthony [...]

The nominations for the 2008 Golden Beetles — Sweden's version of the Academy Awards — have been announced. Roy Andersson's best picture nominee You, the Living (above), a low-key comedy about the day-to-day difficulties of human life, was Sweden's entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Academy Award. Late last year, Andersson received a best director nomination at the European Film Awards. Johan Kling's Darling, [...]