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Cold Souls, Push and We Live in Public among 2009 ND/NF Selections
Sticking to their usual habit of importing the Sundance film festival to the east coast side, the New Directors/New Films 2009 edition will be bookmarked by opening film selection Amreeka from first time filmmaker Cherien Dabis and ending it off with the impressive sophomore feature from Lee Daniels. Along with Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire (I'd be curious to see what distribution company "label" is shown before the film), the event will showcase many New York based filmmakers and some excellent quality affair in Sophie Barthes Cold Souls, So Yong Kim's 2nd film Treeless Mountain and a doc film that has surprisingly been unbought in Ondi Timone's We Live in Public.
The Class is the Best Film According to 700 Journalists
700 French journalists and film critics agree, Laurent Cantet's The Class is the best film of the year. The 10th edition of the Étoiles d’or group places the film in the best position for a (the French equivalent of the Oscars) César win for Best Picture. Curiously, the same group of journalists and critics thought Arnaud Desplechin merited the Best Director prize for Un conte de Noël
Lorber finds Dance Partner in ‘Tony Manero’
Despite the numerous accolades and film festival wins, I've expressed my doubts in the past on whether theatrical possibilities for this film were even possible. Pablo Larrain’s second film is a brilliant exploration of Chile's former Pinochet dictatorship but my reservations have a lot to do with some of the violent outbreaks from the film's lead character. Indiewire's Eugene Hernandez has unveiled that the Chilean import has found a home with Richard Lorber's new label(?).
Review: Gomorrah
"...stout photography and a narrative strategy that doesn’t fleece from the original source, but instead, allows audiences to look through many viewfinders."
Gomorrah | Review
The Disposal Business: Garrone showcases Italy’s unflattering Enterprise
