Academy Award

London 2009: Amanda Seyfried, Michael Haneke, Thomas Turgoose

source: altfg.com

Director Michael Haneke attends the photocall for his black-and-white drama The White Ribbon, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and a highly 2010 Oscar contender in the best foreign language film category (and possibly in the best picture category as well), duri...

Published Tue, Oct 27

Jane Campion Interview

source: OH NO!!

Publicising her new film Bright Star in Cannes earlier this year, Jane Campion grumbled about the "old boy network" of the Hollywood studios, lamented the lack of opportunities for female directors and declared with righteous gynocratic outrage: "After all, women did give birth to th...

Published Sun, Oct 18

Berlinale Co-Production Market Again Launches Search for Co-Production Partners.

source: fest21.com

Among the most successful projects completed this year were also Lost Persons Area (directed by Caroline Strubbe) and Amreeka (directed by Cherien Dabis); they respectively won the SACD Screenplay Award and the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes.

Published Mon, Sep 14

Will “Waltz With Bashir” win Israel’s first Oscar?

source: cinemascopian.com

As far as the Israeli film industry is concerned “Bashir” is already the winner. This film, which no major feature film fund or distributor wanted to touch here in Israel before it was accepted to Cannes, is the eighth Israeli film to be nominated for a foreign language academy award (the fi...

Published Thu, Feb 19

Official US Trailer for Oscar Hopeful Italian Film Gomorrah

source: First Showing

Those that follow the foreign line-up closely have probably heard a lot about Gomorrah, an Italian mafia movie that won the Grand Prize (not the Palme d'Or) at Cannes earlier this year. The film is a violent inside look at Italy's most dangerous modern-day crime families. I actually saw Gom...

Published Fri, Dec 26