Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Film News: Aronofsky's 'Wrestler' to close event -- Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" will be the centerpiece of the 46th New York Film Festival, while Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" will close the event.
http://www.cinemarealm.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Danish crime drama Terribly Happy won the main prize at the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which closed over the weekend. The film is based on a novel by Erling Jepsen. The festival jury gave the special prize and $20,000 to Nan T. Achnas for The Photograph, while Alexey Uchitel was honored as best director [...]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
As much as I love the Sundance Film Festival, it does only come once a year. As a perfect compliment to that fest, the Toronto International Film Festival takes place every September and is just as fun and exciting of a festival. This marks their 32nd year and promises to be one of the best [...]
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival made way for some Cannes heavyweights Thursday, unveiling Special Presentation slots for Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner "The Class" and Matteo Garrone's Grand Prix winner "Gomorrah" among a group of about two dozen North American premieres. Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel" and Canadian helmer Atom Egoyan's "Adoration" -- both Cannes Competition titles...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Polished, funny and utterly charming, Kazakhstan director Sergey Dvortsevoy's debut feature, "Tulpan," won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. It tells of a family not only surviving but also relishing the harsh life as sheep and goat herders on a barren landscape.
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
The European Commission on Monday hailed the performance of films funded by the European Union (EU) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Four EU-funded films received honors at Sunday night's award giving ceremony. “Entre Les Murs” (The Class) directed by Laurent Cantet of France won the Palme d'Or, whilst “Gomorra” directed by Matteo [...]
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
As we already wrote “Entre les Murs” (”The Class“) directed by Laurent Cantet won the Golden Palm (Palme d'Or) at 2008 Cannes Film festival.Other winners included Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme d'Or recipients, who took the screenplay award for “The Silence of Lorna.” Sandra Corveloni, who played a working-class mother in São Paulo in Walter [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
"Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan won the Prize of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival tonight in France, while Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Tokyo Sonata won the jury prize," reports indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez, who lists winners of further UCR awards. "Shy courtship,...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
Filed under: Awards , Festival Reports , Cinematical Indie Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan won the Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival tonight, with Tokyo Sonata taking the Jury Prize. Well, darn ... it figures that one of the few films we didn't manage to catch at the fest ended up winning the category. The film is a Kahzakstanian tale of a young man who must marry before he can become...
