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The Class, Gomorra, and Waltz with Bashir among films to beat in Foreign Oscar nom process
So far, about one third (35 countries to be exact) of the 96 invited to submit their entry for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Picture category have done so.
Greenhalgh’s Nowhere Boy tops annual Brit List poll
He captured the last days of Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis with his screenwork for Control and now his script based on the early days of John Lennon tops the 2nd annual Brit List which sorts the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland.
Cannes’ Hunger, Tulpan and Snow among ‘European Discovery’ noms
FIPRESCI and EFA Board members picked a Cannes trio of quality films in Steve McQueen's Hunger, Aida Begiç's Snow and Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan, and added Tatil Kitabi (Summer Book) by Seyfi Teoman to a category which awards and upcoming-and-coming filmmaker for a first full-length feature film.
Winterbottom/Whitecross go from Shock Treatment to ‘Shock Doctrine’
Screen Daily (09.21) reported a couple of days back that The Road to Guantánamo team of
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross are now working on a documentary based on Naomi Klein's third novel, Shock Doctrine.
Daily Recommendation 09.29.08: Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning 2008 TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE receives a second chance at making a first impression after failing to grab audiences via a proper theatrical pattern release.
