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2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations: Jan. 4, 2009 2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award winners: The Railway Club in Vancouver, Jan. 12, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Sean Penn in Milk   BEST FILM * Milk Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E  BEST CANADIAN FILM * C’est pas moi, je le jure! Heaven on Earth The [...]

An animated film has won the National Society of Film Critics 2009 Awards. No, not WALL-E, but Ari Folman's anti-war documentary-ish Waltz with Bashir, about Israel's disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It's hard not to believe that current events — the Gaza conflict has been going on since late December — influenced the vote, though war or no war in the Middle East, Waltz with [...]

"What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories." That's filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, referring to Persepolis, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. (Top photo: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron. Right photo: Of Love and Eggs by Garin Nugroho.) Whether or not following on Satrapi's lead, [...]