Those compiling their best of the year lists would do well to consult the roll-call of gong-winners handed out by an august band of international critics
Any perspicacious film festival-goer or festival-watcher will have noticed that one of the prizes awarded at most festivals, in addition to the Golden Palms, Golden Lions or Golden Leopards etc, is the Fipresci (Federation International de la Presse Cinematographic) – aka the international film critics' award. In principle, this should be the most prestigious and sought-after prize of all, because the juries are made up of professional film critics (usually five, each from a different country) who are paid to tell the public what is good or bad and why.
Unfortunately, the Fipresci prize does not carry with it any money but, in theory, it does help the film gain a distributor. However, on one occasion, I remember that a director, who had just won the Fipresci prize,...
Any perspicacious film festival-goer or festival-watcher will have noticed that one of the prizes awarded at most festivals, in addition to the Golden Palms, Golden Lions or Golden Leopards etc, is the Fipresci (Federation International de la Presse Cinematographic) – aka the international film critics' award. In principle, this should be the most prestigious and sought-after prize of all, because the juries are made up of professional film critics (usually five, each from a different country) who are paid to tell the public what is good or bad and why.
Unfortunately, the Fipresci prize does not carry with it any money but, in theory, it does help the film gain a distributor. However, on one occasion, I remember that a director, who had just won the Fipresci prize,...
- 12/24/2009
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
The hardware for the 2009 European Film Awards has been handed out and Michael Haneke is the clear winner, with his latest - The White Ribbon - taking film, director and screenwriter nods. Here's the complete list of winners:
The 22nd European Film Awards
The Winners
European Film 2009
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria/France/Italy
written and directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz
& Andrea Occhipinti
European Director 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
European Actor 2009
Tahar Rahim in Un ProphEte (A Prophet)
European Actress 2009
Kate Winslet in The Reader (Der Vorleser)
European Screenwriter 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2009
Anthony Dod Mantle for Antichrist & Slumdog Millionaire
European Film Academy Prix D'Excellence 2009
Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier & Marc Doisne for
the Sound Design, Un ProphEte (A Prophet...
The 22nd European Film Awards
The Winners
European Film 2009
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria/France/Italy
written and directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz
& Andrea Occhipinti
European Director 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
European Actor 2009
Tahar Rahim in Un ProphEte (A Prophet)
European Actress 2009
Kate Winslet in The Reader (Der Vorleser)
European Screenwriter 2009
Michael Haneke for Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2009
Anthony Dod Mantle for Antichrist & Slumdog Millionaire
European Film Academy Prix D'Excellence 2009
Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier & Marc Doisne for
the Sound Design, Un ProphEte (A Prophet...
- 12/12/2009
- Screen Anarchy
Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda in Swet Rush The European Film Academy, Efa Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics Fipresci have announced that the 2009 Prix Fipresci goes to 83-year-old Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (right) for Tatarak / Sweet Rush. Based on Sándor Márai’s short story, Sweet Rush — which has some points in common with The Door in the Floor — chronicles the love affair between a neglected doctor’s wife (veteran Krystyna Janda) whose two sons died in World War II and a man half her age (Us-born actor Pawel Szajda). Shooting was interrupted following the death of Janda’s husband, Wajda’s frequent cinematographer Edward Klosinski. When production resumed, Wajda rearranged the narrative to focus on the filmmaking process [...]...
- 12/3/2009
- by Pedro Bunuel
- Alt Film Guide
The Scorecard Review will be there to cover the interviews, movie reviews and red carpet moments of the Chicago International Film Festival in October. Here’s a list of 21 movies that will be a part of the event. We’ll have all the news you’ll need to be ready for the fest right here.
October 8 – 22, 2009
Chicago, September 16, 2009 – Cinema/Chicago is proud to announce another 20 films that will appear at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival. From dazzling CGI animation to tales of existential ennui and little white lies gone wrong, The 45th Chicago International Film Festival promises an impressive array of diverse films that will excite cinema fans in Chicago and beyond. Below is a newly released sampling of the 145 films that will be shown at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, which will take place October 8th through the 22nd at the AMC River East 21 Theater (322 E.
October 8 – 22, 2009
Chicago, September 16, 2009 – Cinema/Chicago is proud to announce another 20 films that will appear at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival. From dazzling CGI animation to tales of existential ennui and little white lies gone wrong, The 45th Chicago International Film Festival promises an impressive array of diverse films that will excite cinema fans in Chicago and beyond. Below is a newly released sampling of the 145 films that will be shown at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, which will take place October 8th through the 22nd at the AMC River East 21 Theater (322 E.
- 9/19/2009
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
- Former UCLA graduate Kisztina Goda's audience favorite Chameleon becomes Hungary's 2010 entry for the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category and in the same measure, becomes the first film to be added to the annual derby that usually sees sixty plus countries compete for five nomination slots. Since we're on the topic, I thought we'd look at some of the almost guaranteed and highly probable submissions from some of the others countries. North of the Oscar land, Canada should be represented by Denis Villeneuve's gripping drama Polytechnique, while Latin America has some pretty solid contenders in Chile Sebastian Silva's The Maid (a multiple film festival award). Chile's neighbour to the North (Peru) has got a Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner in Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow (her first film Madeinusa got a nom couple of years back) and its neighbour to the East (Argentina) has a
- 6/19/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Berlinale Awards
Berlinale 2009 winners cover a broad range of films whose central aim consists in exploring ways to further the interpretation and understanding of important topics of our time. Therefore the jury has decided to award prizes to those efforts which achieve a balance between the political statement and the poetic form.
Golden Bear for the Best Film La teta asustada (The Milk Of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa
Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade
ex aequo Award Gigante by Adrián Biniez
Silver Bear - Best Director Asghar Farhadi for Darbareye Elly (About Elly)
Silver Bear - Best Actress Birgit Minichmayr in Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade
Silver Bear - Best Actor Sotigui Kouyate in London River by Rachid Bouchareb
Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution "We filmmakers, sometimes we forget the power of sound to create atmospheres and more often we use it in a predictable way. There’s a tremendous originality and risk in the experimental and original way this film builds up its somber narration around its powerful sound design." Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution to Gábor Erdély and Tamás Székely for the Sound-Design of Katalin Varga by Peter Strickland
Silver Bear - Best Script "The role of a film-script when telling human stories starts with the decision of whose eyes to look through in the first place. For a script that takes us into a particular experience – one all too often ignored and obscured from us - towards the encouragement of producers, distributors and audiences across the world to keep looking for a wider horizon and to honour the possibility that cinema holds for us to tell the stories that no other medium may be free enough to touch," Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for The Messenger by Oren Moverman
Alfred Bauer Prize "The jury has unanimously this year decided to give the Alfred Bauer Prize to two films and two directors. One of these directors is an old master with 60 years of experience in film-making. But he is still young and courageous in mind when developing new ways of film-making. He does not even hesitate to involve himself in his movie.
The other director is a young man, here in Berlin with his first feature film, but imbued with the same passion to use cinema to do what cinema can do best: to tell important stories about our time and the human condition."
The jury awards the Alfred Bauer Prize to
Gigante by Adrián Biniez
ex aequo award Tatarak (Sweet Rush) by Andrzej Wajda...
Golden Bear for the Best Film La teta asustada (The Milk Of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa
Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade
ex aequo Award Gigante by Adrián Biniez
Silver Bear - Best Director Asghar Farhadi for Darbareye Elly (About Elly)
Silver Bear - Best Actress Birgit Minichmayr in Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade
Silver Bear - Best Actor Sotigui Kouyate in London River by Rachid Bouchareb
Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution "We filmmakers, sometimes we forget the power of sound to create atmospheres and more often we use it in a predictable way. There’s a tremendous originality and risk in the experimental and original way this film builds up its somber narration around its powerful sound design." Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution to Gábor Erdély and Tamás Székely for the Sound-Design of Katalin Varga by Peter Strickland
Silver Bear - Best Script "The role of a film-script when telling human stories starts with the decision of whose eyes to look through in the first place. For a script that takes us into a particular experience – one all too often ignored and obscured from us - towards the encouragement of producers, distributors and audiences across the world to keep looking for a wider horizon and to honour the possibility that cinema holds for us to tell the stories that no other medium may be free enough to touch," Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for The Messenger by Oren Moverman
Alfred Bauer Prize "The jury has unanimously this year decided to give the Alfred Bauer Prize to two films and two directors. One of these directors is an old master with 60 years of experience in film-making. But he is still young and courageous in mind when developing new ways of film-making. He does not even hesitate to involve himself in his movie.
The other director is a young man, here in Berlin with his first feature film, but imbued with the same passion to use cinema to do what cinema can do best: to tell important stories about our time and the human condition."
The jury awards the Alfred Bauer Prize to
Gigante by Adrián Biniez
ex aequo award Tatarak (Sweet Rush) by Andrzej Wajda...
- 2/17/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
Claudia Llosa's Peruvian drama "The Milk of Sorrow" (La teta asustada) won the Golden Bear for best film at the 59th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The Silver Bear went ex aequo to Maren Ade's "Everyone Else" (Alle Anderen) and Adrián Biniez's "Gigante." Asghar Farhadi took home the Silver Bear for best director for "About Elly" (Darbareye Elly).
Birgit Minichmayr was named best actress for her role in "Everyone Else," while Sotigui Kouyate won best actor for his performance in Rachid Bouchareb's "London River."
The Silver Bear for best script went to Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for "The Messenger." Alfred Bauer Prize went ex aequo to Biniez for "Gigante" and Andrzej Wajda for "Sweet Rush" (Tatarak).
The International Jury of the 2009 Berlinale was presided by Tilda Swinton and included Isabel Coixet, Gaston Kaboré, Henning Mankell, Christoph Schlingensief, Wayne Wang and Alice Waters.
The Silver Bear went ex aequo to Maren Ade's "Everyone Else" (Alle Anderen) and Adrián Biniez's "Gigante." Asghar Farhadi took home the Silver Bear for best director for "About Elly" (Darbareye Elly).
Birgit Minichmayr was named best actress for her role in "Everyone Else," while Sotigui Kouyate won best actor for his performance in Rachid Bouchareb's "London River."
The Silver Bear for best script went to Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for "The Messenger." Alfred Bauer Prize went ex aequo to Biniez for "Gigante" and Andrzej Wajda for "Sweet Rush" (Tatarak).
The International Jury of the 2009 Berlinale was presided by Tilda Swinton and included Isabel Coixet, Gaston Kaboré, Henning Mankell, Christoph Schlingensief, Wayne Wang and Alice Waters.
- 2/16/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Berlin -- Richard Loncraine's "My One and Only," a '50s-era comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Kevin Bacon, was squeezed into the competition lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival, barely a week before the event kicks off.
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
- 1/27/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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