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From January 17 to 27, 2008 this festival will be held and while is still announcing its line-up here are some of the films that will be scr...

2008 Sundance Film Festival

With a very interesting and compelling story this 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov movie tells about a revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov spending an idy...

Утомлённые солнцем - Utomlyonnye Solntsem (Burnt by the Sun)

Truly Brilliant! And remember that I’m no fan of animated movies, but this one is a lot more than a regular animated movie and I believe tha...

Persepolis

Last night they had the award ceremony and here are the winners. Best British Independent Film: Control Best Actress: Judi Dench, Notes on ...

10th British Independent Film Awards Winners

Like a critic says this is “a funny, touching and original coming-of-age tale with a big difference: the person coming of age is way past me...

Irina Palm

Winners will be announced on December 8th, 2007 in Taipei Taiwan Tuya’s Marriage and Blind Mountain were disqualified on November 13th, 2007...

44th Golden Horse Awards News

Last night they had the award ceremony and here are the winners. Best Picture: Into The Wild , Sean Penn Best Ensemble Cast: a tie, Talk t...

17th Gotham Awards Winners

Yesterday they announced the nominations for these awards and here are some for the main categories. Best Feature THE DIVING BELL AND THE BU...

2008 Spirit Awards Nominations

I’m no fan of the western genre but decided to give this movie a try, as been hearing good things about it. Sort of remember the last wester...

3:10 To Yuma

The festival was held from November 16 to 25th in Athens, Greece and here are the winners. Golden Alexander for Best Feature Film: Hongse Ka...

48th International Thessaloniki Film Festival Award Winners

This is another movie I been avoiding as I didn’t like the title and I had no idea what the novel by Patrick Süskind was all about, as I hav...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Today was a good day to see movies I been avoiding to watch. This movie I didn’t wanted to see it because I knew what was about and that it ...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

A very hard to watch drama because of all the implications in the story it tells. This Ken Loach movie is about the hot-button topic of expl...

It’s a Free World…

From December 4 to 14 this festival will be held in Habana, Cuba and here are the films in competition. Quién mató a la llamita blanca?, Ro...

29th New Latin-American Cinema International Film Festival

Today the festival closed and here are the award winners. Lifetime Achievement Award : Paul Schrader Visionary Award : Wes Anderson Best F...

18th Stockholm International Film Festival Winners

Hope all of you had nice holidays, mine were great and I’m just sorry that I’m back!! But the good news is that I was able to see one very g...

Atonement

First feature film by Dutch star photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn and is truly, truly mesmerizing! You can't get your...

Control

I really wanted to see this movie to find out why Juliette Binoche accepted doing this role, as not being a Steve Carell fan I was wondering...

Dan in Real Life

I think is a good movie and I say I think, as I do not really know for sure. It has breathtaking cinematography, very slow pace, great frami...

In Memoria di Me (In Memory of Myself)

Funny and charming comedy romance that will leave you feeling good even if I have to say that at times it felt and looked like the old TV sh...

Waitress

Needed to see light movies and this one is fun and very entertaining to watch with all those dog effects. I think that dog lovers would like...

Underdog

These are the winners. Golden Caravelle: Tussenstand , Mijke de Jong, Netherlands Silver Caravelle: Yumurta , Semith Kaplanogiu, Greece and...

1st Estoril European Film Festival Awards Winners

Nice and entertaining comedy about a coming to age of a young girl out of college that wants to study Anthropology and ends up being a nanny...

The Nanny Diaries

These are the award winners announced recently. Grand Jury Prize: Munyurangabo , Lee Isaac Chung, Rwanda and USA Audience Award: Le Scaphand...

21st AFI Fest Winners

This very interesting first feature film by Jaime Marques-Olarreaga is quite a surprise as brings an unexpected lyricism to the most far awa...

Ladrones (Thieves)

If you want to join the Global audience and vote please go here . There are only shorts, but well, some are very interesting. Here are the s...

ifestival at the 18th Stockholm International Film Festival is Open!!!

Thanks to a dearest friend I had the unbelievably opportunity to see this amazing movie and have to say that definitively I was mesmerized w...

Izgnanie (The Banishment)

A dark comedy full of twisted humor by Dutch Alex van Warmerdam who also wrote the screenplay and tells about a writer, Herman that while wr...

Ober (Waiter)

These are the winners of the Seville Film Festival. Golden Giraldillo: It´s a Free World , Ken Loach. Silver Giraldillo: Mio Fratello è Figl...

4th Seville Film Festival Awards Winners

Since a long time ago I’ve wanted to do this post, but I keep forgetting… Well, today I finally did it! These are the official submissions b...

2008 Academy Awards Foreign Film Official Submission

This very complex (yet simple) Roy Andersson movie tells no specific story and shows us 57 vignettes (didn’t count them read it somewhere) o...

Du Levande (You. The Living)

I just finished reading about this movie and not many (almost no one) liked this movie. So, it is no surprise that I did!!! Well to be accur...

I Know Who Killed Me

Fassbinder himself described this movie as “the most disgusting film I ever made” and well he is the co-director and he knows very well why ...

Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?)

This 1949 Yasujiro Ozu film is a film that many consider as Ozu’s best and is the first one of a series of films about families. It tells th...

Banshun (Late Spring)

Trying to cheer me up after seeing Coeurs I saw this movie hoping to laugh and have a nice fantasy moment like I did with A Bug’s Life or An...

The Bee Movie

With three short films about one theme that I wish to call erotic this compilation is uneven thanks mainly to the presence of the short Equi...

Eros

Not very often I have the opportunity to see movies from Argentina, but yesterday I saw one with a story that will be hard to get out of my ...

Cautiva (Captive)

This Alain Resnais film tells a story about loneliness and truly is very sad and you’ll feel really sad while seeing it and afterwards. Gee,...

Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)

Today this brand new festival will start in Estoril and Cascais and these are the films they will screen. In Competition A Bude Hur , Petr N...

1st Estoril European Film Festival

Last November 2nd this festival started and will screen 150 movies from 33 countries. There are many new movies in this festival, too many t...

4th Seville Film Festival