Italian Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2009 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 29, 2009
2009 Nastri d’Argento winners: Taormina Film Festival, Sicily, on June 27, 2009
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Toni Servillo (center) as Italian prime-minister Giulio Andreotti in Paolo Sorrentino’s scathing political comedy-drama Il Divo. At the Nastri d’Argento awards ceremony, Sorrentino remarked that if he were to make Il Divo today, “and revolving around a woman, it’d certainly be about Veronica Lario.” Former actress Lario is right-wing prime-minister Silvio Berlusconi’s soon-to-be former wife, who recently filed for divorce while accusing her family-values proponent husband of being much too interested in some very young women.
 

Best Director
Francesca Archibugi (Questione di cuore)
Pupi Avati [...]

by Massimo David | June 27, 2009   
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Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009

The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with a screening of Ella Lemhagen’s Swedish comedy Patrik, Age 1.5, in which a gay couple discover that their newly adopted "baby" is actually a 15-year-old anti-gay juvenile delinquent.
Among the other films scheduled at the festival, which runs until May 3, are:

Yair Hochner’s quirky romantic comedy Antarctica (above, top photo), in which several gay men and a couple of lesbians try to sort out their entangled romantic lives in bustling Tel Aviv — all that while awaiting for aliens to land in the city.
Valdis Óskarsdóttir’s Icelandic comedy Country Wedding (above, lower photo), about several individuals with various personal secrets who gather for an out-of-town wedding.
Jacqui Morris‘ British [...]

by Andre Soares | April 23, 2009   
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