More than 200 international filmmakers have rallied in support of ousted Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, pledging their names to an open letter imploring the cultural organization to keep the artist director in place. Among the first signatories were Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Joanna Hogg, “Corsage” director Marie Kreutzer, Andrew Ross Perry, and Olivier Assayas. Over the course of the day on Wednesday, another 130 directors joined them, the list swelling to include M. Night Shyamalan, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tilda Swinton, and Claire Denis. 260 filmmakers have now signed the open letter.
“We, a diverse group of filmmakers from all over the world, who have deep respect for Berlin International Film Festival as a place for great cinema of all kinds, protest the harmful, unprofessional, and immoral behavior of state minister Claudia Roth in forcing the esteemed Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to step down despite promises to prolong his contract,” says the letter.
Chatrian...
“We, a diverse group of filmmakers from all over the world, who have deep respect for Berlin International Film Festival as a place for great cinema of all kinds, protest the harmful, unprofessional, and immoral behavior of state minister Claudia Roth in forcing the esteemed Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to step down despite promises to prolong his contract,” says the letter.
Chatrian...
- 9/6/2023
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Mubi is closing the year out on a high note with their December lineup, featuring some of 2021’s most acclaimed U.S. releases.
Highlights include Tsai Ming-liang’s Days (along with his previous feature Afternoon), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Andreas Fontana’s Azor, Anders Edströ & C.W. Winter’s eight-hour epic The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), Frank Beauvais’ Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream, and Michael M. Bilandic’s soon-to-premiere Project Space 13.
Also among the lineup is Arnaud Desplechin’s Esther Kahn, a quartet of Godard classics, Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s short The Bones, produced by Ari Aster, and much more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
December 1 | Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | The Cinema of Marx and Coca-Cola: Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960s
December 2 | Le bel indifferent | Jacques Demy | Scenes from a Small Town:...
Highlights include Tsai Ming-liang’s Days (along with his previous feature Afternoon), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Andreas Fontana’s Azor, Anders Edströ & C.W. Winter’s eight-hour epic The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), Frank Beauvais’ Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream, and Michael M. Bilandic’s soon-to-premiere Project Space 13.
Also among the lineup is Arnaud Desplechin’s Esther Kahn, a quartet of Godard classics, Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s short The Bones, produced by Ari Aster, and much more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
December 1 | Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | The Cinema of Marx and Coca-Cola: Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960s
December 2 | Le bel indifferent | Jacques Demy | Scenes from a Small Town:...
- 11/23/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“It’s sad to get old in any period.” Tayoko (Tayoko Shiojiri) has just watched Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story on television and it’s struck a nerve of melancholy. The Japanese master’s great films tend to do this to viewers, especially those who find themselves in the midst of painful transition. Her husband Junji (Kaoru Iwahana) has become increasingly ill over the last few months, and the slow passage of time has suddenly taken a different meaning for the woman who spends so many hours outside in the fields cultivating crops.
This observation about aging comes in one of many journal entries that comprise the spine of The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), an experimental study in duration and devotion that intricately overlaps voiceover and ambient sound design to create a symphonic cinematic space in the quietest of locations. If the incessant trilling of insects,...
This observation about aging comes in one of many journal entries that comprise the spine of The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), an experimental study in duration and devotion that intricately overlaps voiceover and ambient sound design to create a symphonic cinematic space in the quietest of locations. If the incessant trilling of insects,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Glenn Heath Jr.
- The Film Stage
After offering up our picks for the best films of the first half of the year, we enter the second half with a strong release slate. Arriving this July is a stellar set of documentaries, a few promising wide releases, new films from some of the century’s most prolific directors, and much more. Check out my picks below.
15. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (Arie and Chuko Esiri)
Before an eventual Criterion release, Janus Films will bow the debut feature by Nigerian-raised, New York-educated twins Arie and Chuko Esiri, which recently played at Berlinale, New Directors/New Films, and more. David Katz said in his review, “Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven and Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express have been directly cited by the filmmakers as inspirations for Eyimofe, and I would also mention Amores Perros for its interleaving structure and top-to-bottom dissection of a megalopolis, teeming with...
15. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (Arie and Chuko Esiri)
Before an eventual Criterion release, Janus Films will bow the debut feature by Nigerian-raised, New York-educated twins Arie and Chuko Esiri, which recently played at Berlinale, New Directors/New Films, and more. David Katz said in his review, “Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven and Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express have been directly cited by the filmmakers as inspirations for Eyimofe, and I would also mention Amores Perros for its interleaving structure and top-to-bottom dissection of a megalopolis, teeming with...
- 7/1/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Continuing their tradition (assuming La Flor and Dead Souls comprise a tradition) of epic-length arthouse fare, Grasshopper Film will release next month The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), an eight-hour Japanese-Swedish feature from C.W. Winter and Anders Edström. By most accounts (including a top prize at last year’s Berlinale) the picture earns its 480 minutes, having pulled raves from Cinema Scope and Film Comment—the latter claiming it “speaks to the power, beauty, and necessity of the theatrical experience.”
That theatrical experience begins July 16 at Film at Lincoln Center as part of their NYFF58 Redux series, ahead of which comes a sparse, intriguing trailer of remarkable still photographs. Whatever that does (or doesn’t) convey about this eight-hour experience, consider us deeply in its thrall already.
Watch the preview and find two posters below:
The post U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed The Works and Days...
That theatrical experience begins July 16 at Film at Lincoln Center as part of their NYFF58 Redux series, ahead of which comes a sparse, intriguing trailer of remarkable still photographs. Whatever that does (or doesn’t) convey about this eight-hour experience, consider us deeply in its thrall already.
Watch the preview and find two posters below:
The post U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed The Works and Days...
- 6/28/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Whether a viewer in 1896 or 2020, cinema has always been a dynamic and variable experience. Cinema as an event—as a manifestation of a meeting point between the art of moving images and an audience, big or small—has never fit any one definition, and this last year, so severely disrupted by a global pandemic, has deeply underscored the versatility and resilience of our great love.Our viewing this year, like that of so many, has been strange: compromised, confrontational, escapist, euphoric, painful, revelatory—encompassing all of the reactions one can have to film. How we encountered our favorite movies and most meaningful cinematic experiences of the year was hardly new: A by-now-normal mix of festivals, theatres, various subscription and transactional streaming services, as well as private screener links and gems buried on over-stuffed hard drives. But for most of the year, the communal experience shrunk to living rooms and glowing screens.
- 12/23/2020
- MUBI
Experimental doc section Paradocs has also added 11 titles.
The European premiere of Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, and Victor Kossakovsky’s buzzy Berlin title Gunda are among the 18 titles selected for the Masters section at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
The festival has added 47 titles in total to the programme for its 2020 edition, which will take place both in cinemas in Amsterdam, and online.
Looking at the US government surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, MLK/FBI premiered at Toronto last month, and will be distributed by IFC Films in the US. Gunda follows the daily life of a pig,...
The European premiere of Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI, and Victor Kossakovsky’s buzzy Berlin title Gunda are among the 18 titles selected for the Masters section at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
The festival has added 47 titles in total to the programme for its 2020 edition, which will take place both in cinemas in Amsterdam, and online.
Looking at the US government surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, MLK/FBI premiered at Toronto last month, and will be distributed by IFC Films in the US. Gunda follows the daily life of a pig,...
- 10/6/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Leading documentary festival Idfa has added 47 films to its program, which run as part of its Masters, Paradocs and Best of Fests sections.
In the Masters section, Idfa has selected 18 titles from today’s auteurs of documentary cinema. In “Irradiated,” winner of the Berlinale Documentary Award, Rithy Panh “contemplates the image of human suffering throughout history in a revolutionary film that approaches cinematic installation,” according to a statement from the festival.
In “Gunda,” Victor Kossakovsky “intimately examines our relationship with animals as he invites audiences to fall in love with the titular character, a wonderful mother pig.” “Paris Caligrammes” sees Ulrike Ottinger “curate a rich archival history of 1960s Paris,” in which the director features alongside the great artists, thinkers and revolutionaries of the day.
Dieudo Hamadi’s “Downstream to Kinshasa” pays tribute to the survivors of the Six-Day War in Hamadi’s native Congo, “finding poetry in stories of human resilience.
In the Masters section, Idfa has selected 18 titles from today’s auteurs of documentary cinema. In “Irradiated,” winner of the Berlinale Documentary Award, Rithy Panh “contemplates the image of human suffering throughout history in a revolutionary film that approaches cinematic installation,” according to a statement from the festival.
In “Gunda,” Victor Kossakovsky “intimately examines our relationship with animals as he invites audiences to fall in love with the titular character, a wonderful mother pig.” “Paris Caligrammes” sees Ulrike Ottinger “curate a rich archival history of 1960s Paris,” in which the director features alongside the great artists, thinkers and revolutionaries of the day.
Dieudo Hamadi’s “Downstream to Kinshasa” pays tribute to the survivors of the Six-Day War in Hamadi’s native Congo, “finding poetry in stories of human resilience.
- 10/6/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe great maestro Ennio Morricone died on Monday at the age of 91. Morricone was best known for his acclaimed compositions in films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, The Battle of Algiers, and so many more. His self-written obituary begins: “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.”The 2020 invitees of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences include a wide range of international artists, from Garrett Bradley and Terence Davies to Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Zhao Tao.Recommended Viewing This year, Japan Cuts, the annual festival organized by the Japan Society of New York City, is commemorating the life and work of the late Nobuhiko Obayashi. An exclusive video tribute to Obayashi by Shinya Tsukamoto, who describes seeing Obayashi's films for the first time as a student, can be found for free at the festival's online platform.
- 7/8/2020
- MUBI
Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysCOMPETITIONGolden BearThere is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof)Silver Bear — Grand Jury PrizeNever Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) (Read our review.)Silver Bear — 70th BerlinaleDelete History (Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern) Silver Bear for Best DirectorHong Sang-soo (The Woman Who Ran) (Read our review.)Silver Bear for Best ActorElio Germano (Hidden Away)Silver Bear for Best ActressPaula Beer (Undine) (Read our review.)Silver Bear for Best ScreenplayFabio and Damiano D'Innocenzo (Bad Tales)Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic ContributionJürgen Jürges (Dau. Natasha)ENCOUNTERSAward for Best FilmThe Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C.W. Winter, Anders Edström)Special Jury AwardThe Trouble With Being Born (Sandra Wollner)Award for Best DirectorCristi Puiu (Malmkrog) (Read our review.)Special MentionIsabella (Matias Piñeiro)...
- 3/1/2020
- MUBI
Eliza Hittman’s ’Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ wins Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil has become the latest film from Iran to win the Berlinale’s top honour, the Golden Bear, following Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation in 2012 and Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran in 2015.
Rasoulof was not able to attend this year’s festival because he is banned from leaving Iran following his arrest last year. The film’s producers Farzad Pak and Kaveh Farnam, and the director’s daughter Baran Rasoulof (an actress who lives in Hamburg) collected the award on his...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil has become the latest film from Iran to win the Berlinale’s top honour, the Golden Bear, following Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation in 2012 and Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran in 2015.
Rasoulof was not able to attend this year’s festival because he is banned from leaving Iran following his arrest last year. The film’s producers Farzad Pak and Kaveh Farnam, and the director’s daughter Baran Rasoulof (an actress who lives in Hamburg) collected the award on his...
- 2/29/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
The 2020 Berlin Film Festival, which kicked off on February 20, handed out its top prizes today as the fest comes to a close in Germany. The night’s top winner, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof for “There Is No Evil,” could not attend the ceremony due to an Iran-sanctioned travel ban and possible prison sentence for his politically charged film (read IndieWire’s review here). See all this year’s winners below.
As is befitting for a festival season marked by tension, activists were gathered outside the festivities in front of the Berlinale Palast, where the honors took place, demonstrating for climate change. The 70th edition of the Berlinale weathered its share of controversies this year, too, from jury president Jeremy Irons digging up past controversial remarks to the revelation that late festival chief Alfred Bauer had ties to the Nazi party. The first edition assembled by artistic director Carlo Chatrian and...
As is befitting for a festival season marked by tension, activists were gathered outside the festivities in front of the Berlinale Palast, where the honors took place, demonstrating for climate change. The 70th edition of the Berlinale weathered its share of controversies this year, too, from jury president Jeremy Irons digging up past controversial remarks to the revelation that late festival chief Alfred Bauer had ties to the Nazi party. The first edition assembled by artistic director Carlo Chatrian and...
- 2/29/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “There Is No Evil,” a drama about the impact of capital punishment on society and the human condition, won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
The seven-person festival jury, headed by Jeremy Irons, spread the prizes far and wide, with no single filmmaker dominating the awards.
American writer-director Eliza Hittman won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about teen pregnancy, while the Silver Bear for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sang Soo for his Seoul-set drama “The Woman Who Ran.”
Rasoulof, who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban, faces a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” The filmmaker released a statement on Friday expressing his sorrow at missing the premiere of “There Is No Evil”: “I am sorry that I will not be able...
The seven-person festival jury, headed by Jeremy Irons, spread the prizes far and wide, with no single filmmaker dominating the awards.
American writer-director Eliza Hittman won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about teen pregnancy, while the Silver Bear for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sang Soo for his Seoul-set drama “The Woman Who Ran.”
Rasoulof, who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban, faces a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” The filmmaker released a statement on Friday expressing his sorrow at missing the premiere of “There Is No Evil”: “I am sorry that I will not be able...
- 2/29/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns BlueThis year is the 70th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival, and it celebrates with a change of guard: Out goes festival director Dieter Kosslick and in comes Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek, presumably managing the business side of the massive event, and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, who most recently held the same title at the Locarno Film Festival, leading the curation. This hand-over of responsibility is not unique to Berlin; last year, Locarno’s programming team was new; this year sees new heads of Sundance, Sheffield, and New York film festivals; and next year Rotterdam is under new leadership. As film culture is shifting under the just cultural pressure of inclusion and diversity, major festivals around the world are in the process of shifting gears.What does that mean for the Berlinale? In these early days—and in the first year with...
- 2/22/2020
- MUBI
The 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20 – March 1) unveiled its Encounters program today, featuring the premieres of new works by Tim Sutton and Romanian director Cristi Puiu.
Also screening is Josephine Decker’s Shirley with Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg, marking the film’s international premiere after its upcoming Sundance bow, and Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky, whose last pic was the 2018 Venice doc Aquarela.
Encounters is a newly-created competitive section at the Berlin festival that looks to highlight “new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms.” A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award.
“As a result of passionate research, the 15 titles chosen for Encounters present the vitality of cinema in all of its forms. Each film presents a different way of interpreting the cinematic story: autobiographical, intimate, political,...
Also screening is Josephine Decker’s Shirley with Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg, marking the film’s international premiere after its upcoming Sundance bow, and Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky, whose last pic was the 2018 Venice doc Aquarela.
Encounters is a newly-created competitive section at the Berlin festival that looks to highlight “new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms.” A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award.
“As a result of passionate research, the 15 titles chosen for Encounters present the vitality of cinema in all of its forms. Each film presents a different way of interpreting the cinematic story: autobiographical, intimate, political,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Shirley’, starring Elisabeth Moss, among films in the new competitive strand.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-Mar 1) has unveiled the 15 features that will comprise its first ever Encounters competitive strand.
The new section has been introduced to support new voices in cinema, running alongside the long-established competition and Berlinale Shorts, which award the Golden and Silver Bears.
A three-member jury, which has yet to be announced, will choose the winners of best film, best director and a special jury award.
The section will open with Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, a 200-minute drama in which an elite group of individuals...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-Mar 1) has unveiled the 15 features that will comprise its first ever Encounters competitive strand.
The new section has been introduced to support new voices in cinema, running alongside the long-established competition and Berlinale Shorts, which award the Golden and Silver Bears.
A three-member jury, which has yet to be announced, will choose the winners of best film, best director and a special jury award.
The section will open with Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog, a 200-minute drama in which an elite group of individuals...
- 1/17/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
We've got less than a month until top ten lists for 2010 are due. Which means we've got less than a month to catch up on all the films we missed. In an effort to make sure I don't overlook anything in my own personal movie cramming session, I posted this message to Twitter earlier this afternoon:
Finish this sentence: "The movie you need to see before making your 2010 best-of list is ____________."
The responses I got, from professional critics and amateur enthusiasts, created such an impressive list, that I thought it was worth sharing. Obviously there are holes, and the nature of my question to Twitter means massive hits like "Inception" didn't get mentioned. But this is a good place to start catching up, and I'm more than willing to make this a living document. If there are movies you think deserve to be added, send me a message on Twitter.
Finish this sentence: "The movie you need to see before making your 2010 best-of list is ____________."
The responses I got, from professional critics and amateur enthusiasts, created such an impressive list, that I thought it was worth sharing. Obviously there are holes, and the nature of my question to Twitter means massive hits like "Inception" didn't get mentioned. But this is a good place to start catching up, and I'm more than willing to make this a living document. If there are movies you think deserve to be added, send me a message on Twitter.
- 11/17/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
The meditative Swedish movie "The Anchorage" takes minimalism to the maximum. It opens with a long tracking shot of a middle-aged woman, Ulla, walking through the woods to the Baltic Sea. She takes off her boots, a pink bathrobe and a blue T-shirt and goes skinny-dipping in the icy water. This is part of Ulla's daily ritual, which is detailed in this mesmerizing film by C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom. We watch as Ulla, played by Edstrom's mother, also named Ulla, goes about her routine -- listening to public radio,...
- 9/17/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Photo by The Anchorage cinematographer and co-director Anders Edström.
I’ve had a few lucky vacations that remind me of C.W. Winter and Anders Edström’s lovely new film, The Anchorage. They were on the chilly coast of Northern California, and the vacations weren't so much a change of activity as they were a change of location for my daily activities—day to day life remained much the same, but the backdrop and the context were different. Contentment was based simply on this change of situation, of being there, and filling that "there" with the minimal activities of daily upkeep, the refreshment of passing through the wooded area of beaches and cliffs, getting accustomed to the surroundings, and finding harmony in the feel, the palette, the smell and taste of the coast. The Anchorage—which is more location than setting (e.g. this spot in the forest looked at from here,...
I’ve had a few lucky vacations that remind me of C.W. Winter and Anders Edström’s lovely new film, The Anchorage. They were on the chilly coast of Northern California, and the vacations weren't so much a change of activity as they were a change of location for my daily activities—day to day life remained much the same, but the backdrop and the context were different. Contentment was based simply on this change of situation, of being there, and filling that "there" with the minimal activities of daily upkeep, the refreshment of passing through the wooded area of beaches and cliffs, getting accustomed to the surroundings, and finding harmony in the feel, the palette, the smell and taste of the coast. The Anchorage—which is more location than setting (e.g. this spot in the forest looked at from here,...
- 9/17/2010
- MUBI
The Man's Woman and Other Stories directed by Amit Dutta will be screened in the International Competition section of the 11th Jeonju Film Festival in Korea. The festival will run from April 29 to May 7. Park Jinoh's debut feature Should Have Kissed will be the opening film of the festival while Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio's To the Sea will be the closing film of the festival.
The Man's Woman and Other Stories is a series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.
Jff will screen 209 films from 49 countries this year, including 11 in the international competition.
The list of films in the International Competition are:
"The Anchorage," U.S.-Sweden (dir. Anders Edstom, C.W. Winter)
"Castro," Argentina (dir. Alejo Moguillansky)
"Clash," Phillippines (dir. Pepe Diokno)
"Crab Trap," Colombia-France (dir. Oscar Ruiz Navia)
"Huacho," Chile-France-Germany (dir. Alejandro Fernandez Almendras)
"I Am a Cat Stalker,...
The Man's Woman and Other Stories is a series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.
Jff will screen 209 films from 49 countries this year, including 11 in the international competition.
The list of films in the International Competition are:
"The Anchorage," U.S.-Sweden (dir. Anders Edstom, C.W. Winter)
"Castro," Argentina (dir. Alejo Moguillansky)
"Clash," Phillippines (dir. Pepe Diokno)
"Crab Trap," Colombia-France (dir. Oscar Ruiz Navia)
"Huacho," Chile-France-Germany (dir. Alejandro Fernandez Almendras)
"I Am a Cat Stalker,...
- 4/6/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Last year the Lafca (one of the twin titans of critics groups, the other being their east coast rivals the Nyfcc who announce tomorrow) made some fine choices last year, a best picture win for Wall•E and a smart off-mainstream choice for production design given to the brilliant Mark Friedberg on Synecdoche, New York. Here's what they had to say this year... there's something for everyone.
Picture The Hurt Locker [ru: Up in the Air]
Director Bigelow, The Hurt Locker [ru: Haneke, The White Ribbon]
Actress Yolande Moreau, Séraphine [ru: Carey Mulligan, An Education]
Generally there's one acting category wherein the Lafca will not stick to the status quo. And here it is. She also won the César in France.
Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart [ru: Colin Firth, A Single Man]
Supporting Actress Mo'Nique in Precious [ru: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air]
Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds [ru: Peter Capaldi, In the Loop]
Sweepers! Or shaping up to be nearly so.
Screenplay Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air [ru: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche for In the Loop]
Production Design Philip Ivey for District 9 [ru: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Avatar]
Cinematography...
Picture The Hurt Locker [ru: Up in the Air]
Director Bigelow, The Hurt Locker [ru: Haneke, The White Ribbon]
Actress Yolande Moreau, Séraphine [ru: Carey Mulligan, An Education]
Generally there's one acting category wherein the Lafca will not stick to the status quo. And here it is. She also won the César in France.
Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart [ru: Colin Firth, A Single Man]
Supporting Actress Mo'Nique in Precious [ru: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air]
Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds [ru: Peter Capaldi, In the Loop]
Sweepers! Or shaping up to be nearly so.
Screenplay Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air [ru: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche for In the Loop]
Production Design Philip Ivey for District 9 [ru: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Avatar]
Cinematography...
- 12/14/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named "The Hurt Locker" the best film of the year Sunday when it announced its 2009 award winners.
"Hurt Locker" is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who are part of a bomb-disposal unit in Baghdad. Among the cast are Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Evangeline Lilly. Check out the first eight minutes of "The Hurt Locker."
In contrast, the comedic "Up in the Air" starring George Clooney about a man who flies around the country firing people on behalf of their companies, was named the runner-up.
"Hurt Locker's" Kathryn Bigelow won for best director, while Michael Haneke of "The White Ribbon" was the runner-up.
In the acting categories, Yolande Moreau who portrayed French painter Séraphine de Senlis in "Séraphine" and Jeff Bridges as a broken down, hard living country singer in "Crazy Heart" won top honors.
"Hurt Locker" is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who are part of a bomb-disposal unit in Baghdad. Among the cast are Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Evangeline Lilly. Check out the first eight minutes of "The Hurt Locker."
In contrast, the comedic "Up in the Air" starring George Clooney about a man who flies around the country firing people on behalf of their companies, was named the runner-up.
"Hurt Locker's" Kathryn Bigelow won for best director, while Michael Haneke of "The White Ribbon" was the runner-up.
In the acting categories, Yolande Moreau who portrayed French painter Séraphine de Senlis in "Séraphine" and Jeff Bridges as a broken down, hard living country singer in "Crazy Heart" won top honors.
- 12/14/2009
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
"The Hurt Locker" took the top honor at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association with director Kathryn Bigelow winning the directing award.
Jeff Bridges won the best actor award for his role as a washed-up country singer in "Crazy Heart." T Bone Burnett's music from the film also won the best score.
Belgian actress Yolande Moreau won the Best Actress prize for her role as artist Seraphine de Senlis in "Seraphine."
Mo'Nique won the Best Supporting Actress award for "Precious" while Christoph Waltz took home the Best Supporting Actor prize for "Inglourious Basterds."
And the winners of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards are:
Picture: "The Hurt Locker"
Runner-up: "Up in the Air"
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"
Runner-up: Michael Haneke, "The White Ribbon"
Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"
Runner-up: Colin Firth, "A Single Man"
Actress: Yolande Moreau, "S�raphine"
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, "An Education"
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz,...
Jeff Bridges won the best actor award for his role as a washed-up country singer in "Crazy Heart." T Bone Burnett's music from the film also won the best score.
Belgian actress Yolande Moreau won the Best Actress prize for her role as artist Seraphine de Senlis in "Seraphine."
Mo'Nique won the Best Supporting Actress award for "Precious" while Christoph Waltz took home the Best Supporting Actor prize for "Inglourious Basterds."
And the winners of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards are:
Picture: "The Hurt Locker"
Runner-up: "Up in the Air"
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"
Runner-up: Michael Haneke, "The White Ribbon"
Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"
Runner-up: Colin Firth, "A Single Man"
Actress: Yolande Moreau, "S�raphine"
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, "An Education"
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Powerful performances got the nod from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as the annual voting got underway Sunday.
Comedian Mo'Nique got the best supporting actress award for her dramatic performance as a dysfunctional mom in the critically acclaimed "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," while the supporting actor award when to Christoph Waltz for his frightening yet charismatic turn as a Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds."
Here are the results for the first half of the awards that were announced thus far:
Supporting actress/actor runners-up
Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"
Peter Capaldi, "In the Loop"
Best screenplay
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, "Up in the Air"
Runner-up: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, "In the Loop"
Best cinematography
Christian Berger, "The White Ribbon"
Runner-up: Barry Ackroyd, "The Hurt Locker"
Best production design
Philip Ivey, "District 9"
Runner-up: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg,...
Comedian Mo'Nique got the best supporting actress award for her dramatic performance as a dysfunctional mom in the critically acclaimed "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," while the supporting actor award when to Christoph Waltz for his frightening yet charismatic turn as a Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds."
Here are the results for the first half of the awards that were announced thus far:
Supporting actress/actor runners-up
Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"
Peter Capaldi, "In the Loop"
Best screenplay
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, "Up in the Air"
Runner-up: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, "In the Loop"
Best cinematography
Christian Berger, "The White Ribbon"
Runner-up: Barry Ackroyd, "The Hurt Locker"
Best production design
Philip Ivey, "District 9"
Runner-up: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg,...
- 12/13/2009
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
As the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. took a break in its annual voting Sunday afternoon, the awards to that point were widely scattered.
The best supporting actress award went to Mo'Nique for her portrayal of a deeply scarred, wildly dysfunctional mother in Lionsgate's "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
Anna Kendrick was runner-up for her role of an eager though somewhat naive young businesswoman in Paramount Pictures' "Up in the Air."
As best supporting actor, Christoph Waltz as the wily Nazi colonel in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" from the Weinstein Co. took top honors. Peter Capaldi finished second for his portrayal of a foul-mouthed British government official in "In the Loop."
For best screenplay, comedy veering toward satire won the day.
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's screenplay for Paramount's "Up in the Air" was voted best screenplay. The film is a comedy about people...
The best supporting actress award went to Mo'Nique for her portrayal of a deeply scarred, wildly dysfunctional mother in Lionsgate's "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
Anna Kendrick was runner-up for her role of an eager though somewhat naive young businesswoman in Paramount Pictures' "Up in the Air."
As best supporting actor, Christoph Waltz as the wily Nazi colonel in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" from the Weinstein Co. took top honors. Peter Capaldi finished second for his portrayal of a foul-mouthed British government official in "In the Loop."
For best screenplay, comedy veering toward satire won the day.
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's screenplay for Paramount's "Up in the Air" was voted best screenplay. The film is a comedy about people...
- 12/13/2009
- by By Kirk Honeycutt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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