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American Film Institute’s Top 10 films of 2006
This year’s top 10, now the American Film Institute's seventh annual year end list includes some serious omissions and a good helping of comedic selections. Not included are downbeat dramas such as Todd Field’s Little Children and Martin Scorsese's The Departed, The Queen or Mel Gibson’s newest endeavor, but Spike Lee’s Inside Man made a surprise entry on the list.
‘Fragments’ tops Documentary Achievement Awards
The International Documentary Assn (a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to supporting the efforts of nonfiction film and video makers throughout the United States and the world, and who also publish a monthly mag) choose James Longley's Iraq In Fragments as the best feature-length documentary of the year. The other final noms in the same category were Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington
Anymore?, Deliver Us From Evil, Showbusiness: A Season to Remember and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
‘Sunshine’ Group to Tackle ‘Abstinence’
The team that brought us the surprise hit Little Miss Sunshine are gathering again. The directing duo of Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton are reportedly in talks to helm the film adaptation of The Abstinence Teacher, based on an upcoming Tom Perrotta novel.
Review: Blood Diamond
"Dream selling retailers such as Tiffany and Cartier need not to worry - whatever deep social message that could possibly have been intended with Blood Diamond is lost because of its overly simplistic discourse of the diamond trade..."
