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Stuart Hazeldine's Exam (top); Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiainen in Klaus Härö's Letters to Father Jaakob (bottom) The Santa Barbara International Film Festival came to a close today. Held about in the coastal town 90 miles north of Los Angeles, the festival attracted a number of Hollywood personalities, including honorees Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. The information below about the Santa Barbara festival's award winners is [...]

Best Foreign Language Film Baaria, Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy) An autobiographical tale set in the director's Sicilian hometown Forever Enthralled, Chen Kaige (China) Biopic chronicling the life of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan (Canada) A young gay man has some serious issues with his mother. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard (France) Prison drama in which a young hood learns what [...]

Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected 'usual suspects' outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]

Manohla Dargis on Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void, in the New York Times: "Although he remains dedicated to shaking up viewer s, to getting under their skins and into their nervous systems, Mr. Noé [above, top photo] has mellowed. Despite its unpromising title, Enter the Void, his entry at this year’s festival, is an exceptional work, though less because of its story, acting or any [...]