The Necessities of Life Articles

Wide acclaim and a handful of top European Film Awards didn’t help Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah land a spot in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ list of best foreign-language film semi-finalists. And in case you’re looking for Let the Right One In among the nine films still in the running, you won’t find it there. Although the Swedish vampire drama was chosen the [...]

Top Ten Canadian Feature Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order, including future release dates) Adoration (above) – Atom Egoyan (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures, May 2009) Before Tomorrow – Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu (Alliance Films, February 2009) Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life) – Benoit Pilon (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures) C’est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!) – Philippe [...]

2008 Montreal World Film Festival Awards 2008 Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal Festival des Films du Monde): Aug. 21-Sept. 1, 2008   In Yojiro Takita’s Departures — which beat well-received Canadian entry The Necessities of Life — a young (and indebted) Japanese cellist (Masahiro Motoki) returns to his family home to look for some real work. While there, he inadvertently — and more than a [...]