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Roots Extend into 2010 for ‘Tree of Life’
What this means for Oscar race is that a film such as The Road could potentially take one of the 10 nominations slots and what this means for the Malick film is that it will find a competition slot alongside Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful at the 2010 edition of Cannes 2010.
The Official Foreign Oscar Race: 63 Titles to Compete with A Prophet and White Ribbon
If you asked me what films I'd like to see in the final 5 tally, I would love to see the Academy embrace non-mainstream items such as the Romanian pic from Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) and Bong Joon-ho's Mother (South Korea)...
FilmBuff and Vitagraph Team Before the ‘Collapse’
Cinetic's FilmBuff and Vitagraph Films have announced a joint pick-up of, in my estimation, the best doc film coming out of this year's TIFF.
3rd Time a Charm for Haneke and Huppert
Michael Haneke is returning to the "aging" project he had begun scripting before The White Ribbon. French sources say that he'll be re-teaming with Isabelle Huppert and has set Jean-Louis Trintignant in the lead role of a man dealing with the notion of a deteriorating, aging body but a youthful mind.
Golden Age via Andrucha Waddington’s ‘Lope’
The filmmaker behind Me You Them (2000) and the lush The House of Sand (loved the creative use of thesps Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres) directed a shot-in-Spain pic titled Lope, about the early Golden Age of theater which housed spirited romantic comedies.
