THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Nominated for 4 Swedish Oscars

Box-office sensation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is up for a Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) Award for the best Swedish picture of 2009. Strangely, director Niels Arden Oplev wasn’t nominated — The Girl’s Fredrik Edfeldt took his place — though Noomi Rapace (above) is in the running for best actress. A surprise blockbuster, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has earned more than $100 million at the international box office. In the film, Rapace plays a computer hacker who helps uncover (somewhat literally) a number of skeletons in the past of a powerful family.
The two other Guldbagge nominees for best picture also focus on young women: in Teresa Fabik’s Starring Maja, an overweight small-town teenager struggles to become [...]

by Edwige Andersson | January 8, 2010   
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Toronto 2009: IndieWIRE’s Critics’ Poll

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); Joel and Ethan Coen (bottom)

Peter Knegt reports that an indieWIRE poll of "more than 25" film critics and bloggers (blogging film critics?) shows that the overwhelmingly favorite film screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford’s A Single Man or the Michael Douglas vehicle Solitary Man), a black comedy about a suburbanite (Michael Stuhlbarg) whose life suddenly unravels after his wife asks for a divorce. A Serious Man hits US theaters on Oct. 2.

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man

The best performance was delivered by Colin Firth in A Single Man (not to be confused with either [...]

by Andre Soares | September 22, 2009   
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