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Not exactly the kind of movie I enjoy watching, but I had to watch the 2008 Cannes Grand Prix that has been receiving accolades in other fes...

Gomorra (Gomorrah)

As part of the European Film Awards, the European Film Academy annually presents the award EUROPEAN DISCOVERY to a young and upcoming direct...

21st European Film Awards – Nominations for Discovery Award

Seems like when released in the USA this Mariam Shahriar film was labeled as the Iranian “Boys Don’t Cry” but as the New York Times says in ...

Dokhtaran Khorshid (Daughters of the Sun )

The fest runs from September 23 to 30 but seems that they already announced the winners as Variety reports them today and here they are. Gol...

2008 Bangkok International Film Festival Award Winners

This Joachim Trier debut film is extremely well done in all and every sense a film has to be, but I believe that the way the film was constr...

Reprise

From October 7 to 18 this fest will take place in Ghent, Belgium and here are the films in competition for Adoration , Atom Egoyan, Canada A...

2008 Flanders International Film Festival Lineup

This Rafal Zielinski film is not bad as tells a compelling story with a script by James Bosley adapted from his own the play. In my opinion ...

Fun

Today at 4:00pm local time the Jury announced the award winners and here they are. Golden Shell for Best Film : Pandoranin Kutusu (Pandora’...

56th San Sebastian International Film Festival Award Winners

Perhaps some of you will be surprised that finally I saw this 1986 Léa Pool movie and after seeing it I wonder why it took me so long to see...

Anne Trister

The movie is also known as The Cats (USA, UK), Cattorna – Verbotene Zärtlichkeiten (then West Germany), Les Chattes (Belgium, France), Las G...

Kattorna (1965)

I just LOVE French movies, they are so personal and I haven’t found other cinema that can touch your most sensible fibers as French cinema d...

Il y a Longtemps Que Je T’aime (I've Loved You So Long)

Two sections of the fest have announced winners and here they are. Films In Progress 14 Awards Industry Award : Norteando , Rigoberto Perezc...

56th San Sebastian International Film Festival News

Not exactly what I was hoping for but it is not a bad movie, the problem is that it looks like many other movies that tell their country sto...

Restul e Tacere (The Rest Is Silence)

This is truly a festival full of activities beyond cinema with an interesting program that include the following movies in the New Vision s...

5th Reykjavik International Film Festival

I became attracted to this movie because Marion Cotillard is credited as one of the stars of this Richard Berry film, but have to admit that...

La Boîte Noire (The Black Box)

The fest run from September 12 to 21 and here are the award winners. Best Film : Ainda Orangotangos (Still Orangutans), Gustavo Splidoro, ...

13th Milan Film Festival Award Winners

Not long ago the European Film Academy announced the 44 films recommended for a nomination to this year awards. The nominations will be anno...

21st European Film Awards – Long List

I believe that the story that this Steve McQueen movie tells has been told before in other movies, but definitively not as graphic and impac...

Hunger

This Olivier Assayas film is a compelling and interesting study of human behavior to family past, present and future, and those decisions tr...

L’Heure d’Été (Summer Hours)

I got interested in this movie because found some pics from the movie that looked just stunning and obviously it attracted me. But there is ...

The Fall

The festival runs from October 18 to 26 and these are the films in competition. Aide Toi et le Ciel t’Aidera (With a Little Help from Mysel...

21st Tokyo International Film Festival Line-up

So, you think you have seen dysfunctional… then, if you have not seen this movie probably not. This is one of the most dysfunctional family ...

Nue Propriété (Private Propriety)

Perhaps some of you have heard about these shorts directed, written and performed by Isabella Rossellini and would like to see them, as I di...

Green Porno

The fest will run from October 2 to 10 in Seoul. This fest has the following awards given to Korean and Asian films, documentaries and short...

13th Pusan International Film Festival

Today this fest started in the Basque city and well, I’ll be checking what’s going on everyday and if there is something worth mention I’ll ...

56th San Sebastian International Film Festival News

My spontaneous reaction to this 1963 film by Kon Ichikawa is that is very different to any other Japanese movie I’ve have seen, but as fasci...

Yukinojo Henge (An Actor’s Revenge)

Kim Novack is one of my all time favorite actresses and I’m almost positive that I have seen this movie, but hardly recall it. Still, this i...

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Perhaps some of you have noticed the presence of more and more films from Kazakhstan in many fests around the world. If you have noticed as ...

5th Eurasia International Film Festival Award Winners

This award nominated movie by Sidney Lumet has not really positive reviews from critics’ and viewers, but who can resist an all female ensem...

The Group (1966)