Best Films – 1927
Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
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Breakfast at Sunrise
d: Malcolm St. Clair; scr: Fred De Gresac, Gladys Unger
The Enemy
d: Fred Niblo; scr: Willis Goldbeck, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: John Colton
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: Marion Ainslee, Ruth Cummings
The Unknown
d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
The Valley of the Giants
d: Charles Brabin; scr: Gordon Rigby
George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor in Sunrise
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The Cat and the Canary
d: Paul Leni; scr: Alfred A. Cohn, Robert F. Hill; titles: Walter Anthony
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney / The Love of Jeanne Ney
d: G. W. Pabst; scr: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Oscar 2008: Nine Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists
Oscar 2008: Best Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists
The semi-finalist films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Nazis have a Jewish prisoner create fake American and British currency in order to weaken their enemies’ economies
Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director
In 1970, during the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, a boy is left alone in São Paulo’s Jewish quarter after his parents "go on vacation"
Canada, Days of Darkness, Denys Arcand, director
A civil servant finds solace from his drab existence by coming up with all types of Walter Mitty-like fantasies
Israel, Beaufort, Joseph Cedar, director
Israeli platoon leaves the last [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2008
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Tags: 12, 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Beaufort, Days of Darkness, Film Awards, Foreign Language Film Category, Katyn, Mongol, The Counterfeiters, The Trap, The Unknown, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Oscar 2008: Best Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists
The Unknown by Giuseppe Tornatore (top); The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky (bottom)
When I stated in my Oscar 2008 predictions that the Academy’s foreign-language film shortlist is the most difficult to predict, I wasn’t kidding.
Nowhere to be found in the list of nine foreign-language film semi-finalists are:
Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days — last year’s Cannes Film Festival winner and considered by numerous U.S. critics one of the best films of 2007;
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s much-ballyhooed and New York Film Critics Circle winner Persepolis, which may still get a best animated feature nod;
and Juan Antonio Bayona’s box-office hit and multiple-Goya nominee The Orphanage.
Additionally, there was a major surprise among those that [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Foreign Language Film Category, Katyn, Mongol, Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters, The Unknown
