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Jared Leto in MR. NOBODY Photos

Diane Kruger, Jared Leto in Mr. Nobody (top); Jaco van Dormael directs Thomas Byrne, who plays the 9-year-old Nobody of the title (bottom)

In Jaco van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody, an old (and I mean old) man — who claims he’s actually in his mid-30s — is about to face death in the not-too-distant future. This 21st-century Methuselah also happens to be both the last mortal on Earth and Jared Leto.

"Almost moving in its gonzo self-assuredness and take-no-prisoners narrative scope," writes Michael Koresky in indieWIRE, "—although with the nearly 140-minute running time, that could just be my exhaustion talking—Mr. Nobody is as ambitious as it is incoherent, an obvious labor of love that’s equal parts science-fiction, romance, and [...]

Venice 2009: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger Images

Mr. Nobody director Jaco van Dormael, actors Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Linh Dan Pham and Diane Kruger
Photos: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre
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Diane Kruger, Jared Leto

Linh Dan Pham, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger

Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Linh Dan Pham and Diane Kruger

Venice 2009: Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh-Dan Pham Photos

Sarah Polley (above), Linh-Dan Pham, and Diane Kruger attend the Mr. Nobody Official Dinner at the Sangal restaurant during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 11.
Marking the return of writer-director Jaco van Dormael (best known for Toto le héros and The 8th Day) following a thirteen-year break, Mr. Nobody is the story of a man (Jared Leto) who wakes up in the year 2092, when he happens to be both 120 years old and the last mortal on Earth.
In addition to Leto, Polley, Pham, and Kruger, Mr. Nobody features Daniel Mays and Rhys Ifans.
Photos: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images
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Linh-Dan Pham

Diane Kruger

THE SWEET HEREAFTER – Ian Holm, Sarah Polley

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Direction: Atom Egoyan
Screenplay: Atom Egoyan; from Russell Banks’ novel
Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Caerthan Banks, Maury Chaykin
 

Ian Holm, Sarah Polley in The Sweet Hereafter
 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Some films are well crafted but lifeless. Others err by believing they can too readily make an audience care for a character just by having a traumatic situation beset him early on. The Sweet Hereafter, a 1997 drama by Canadian director and screenwriter Atom Egoyan, suffers from both maladies. It’s not a bad film, but it certainly is not a great film, either — much less ‘the best film of the year’ as Los Angeles Times [...]

THE SWEET HEREAFTER d: Atom Egoyan

THE SWEET HEREAFTER Review: Part I
Nichole is also hamhandedly used as a symbol when she recites Robert Browning’s poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The idea of lost children is so obvious in The Sweet Hereafter that the reason Egoyan adds this touch is bewildering, save that he — bizarrely — felt the loss wasn’t evident enough. That begs the question of just how confident Egoyan was in Banks’ original work, for the poem is only one of many elements in the film that are supposed to be significantly different from the book.
Another side story focuses — of course — on the lone man in town, Billy Ansell, who, [...]

Genie 2008 Nominations

The two top nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s 2008 Genie Awards are heavy dramas: David Cronenberg’s Russian mafia thriller Eastern Promises and Roger Spottiswoode’s Rwanda genocide tale Shake Hands With the Devil, each with 12 nominations.
They were followed by Away from Her with seven nods; The Tracey Fragments with six; Continental, a Film Without Guns and Silk, both with five; and Days of Darkness with four.
The violent Eastern Promises, which is up for the best British film BAFTA (it’s a co-production), stars American Viggo Mortensen and Australian Naomi Watts as two disparate people — he a Russian hitman; she a midwife — whose paths are crossed following the death of a pregnant 14-year-old girl. [...]

Spanish Film Writers Awards 2006

2006 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards
2006 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards: January 23, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins in The Secret Life of Words
 

Best Film
El Cielo gira
Habana Blues
Princesas
*La Vida secreta de las palabras / The Secret Life of Words
Best Foreign Film
Broken Flowers, USA/France
Match Point, UK
* Million Dollar Baby, USA
The Twilight Samurai, Japan
Best Director
Mercedes Álvarez, El Cielo gira
* Isabel Coixet, The Secret Life of Words
Fernando León de Aranoa, Princesas
Benito Zambrano, Habana Blues
Best Actor
Manuel Alexandre, Elsa y Fred
Eduard Fernández, El Método
* Óscar Jaenada, Camarón
Tim Robbins, The Secret Life of Words
Best Actress (tie)
Adriana Ozores, Heroína
* Candela Peña, Princesas
* Sarah Polley, The [...]

2006 Goya Award Winners

The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of the 2006 Goya Awards. Not surprisingly, the best picture winner was front-runner La Vida secreta de las palabras / The Secret Life of Words, the story of a young woman who takes care of a man blinded by a work-related accident. The English-language psychological drama stars Tim Robbins, Sarah Polley, Javier Cámara, and Julie Christie, and was directed by Isabel Coixet, winner of the best director and best original screenplay Goyas.
The best actor winner was Óscar Jaenada for Camarón, a biopic of the renowned flamenco singer, while the best actress was Candela Peña for Princesas, a dark tale about two prostitutes.
Among the [...]

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