The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Articles

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men Alex Ben Block at Hollywood Today: "Even if the writer's strike is over on Feb. 24 when Oscars are handed out, the appeal of this year's nominees, led by No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood and Michael Clayton, will be limited. The 80th Academy Award nominations are not just art house movies, but most [...]

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 [...]

300 by Zack Snyder (top); Nina Hoss in Yella (middle); In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo (bottom) Berlin Film Festival 2007: Part I A few other titles that sound intriguing: Inspired by Frank Miller's drawings and directed by Zack Snyder, 300 depicts the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C.E. At that decisive battle, King Leonidas of Sparta and a mere 300 followers [...]