In the Fade with Diane Kruger: Fatih Akin's Avenging Woman drama may give its German-speaking star the chance to become next awards season's Isabelle Huppert. Diane Kruger: 2017–2018 awards season's Isabelle Huppert? (See previous post: “Cannes Film Festival Winners vs.…
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Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, about an author-turned-shoeshiner (André Wilms) who tries to assist a young African immigrant pursued by France's immigration police, has won the International Federation of Film Critics' FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in…
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The Social Network with Jesse Eisenberg Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno in Marco Bellocchio's Vincere The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's retelling of the founding of Facebook, was voted the Best Film of 2010 by the National…
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Zhang Lu's Dooman River MoMA and the Global Film Initiative (GFI) present the New York leg of the touring film exhibition Global Lens, described as “a project conceived to encourage filmmaking in countries with emerging film communities.” Global Lens 2011…
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Wikileaks cables focusing on Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 have raised eyebrows, much like Britney Spears' appearance in that 2004 nonfiction blockbuster. In Moore's own words, these latest Wikileaks cables “provide a stunning and bizarre peek into the paranoid minds…