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Fish Tank, Everyone Else, Dogtooth among 48 selected for the European Film Awards
Fish Tank, Everyone Else, Dogtooth, Police Adjective, A Prophet and White Ribbon are just a half a dozen titles among the 48 films that have a shot at being nominated among several categories for 22nd The European Film Awards.
Telluride Showcases Best of Cannes, World Preem for The Last Station
They haven't got many world preems, today's press release only mentions Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, but that could all change – as the festival has some surprises in store for patrons (this would be a good time to bring out All Good Things into the Oscar mix) and everyone is expecting Jason Reitman to show up. We are checking his twitter status.
A Cannes Heavy NYFF Puts Resnais, Lee Daniels and Almodovar in the Spotlight
I'd focus on Maren Ade's Everyone Else (Kent Jones wrote an essay in this month's Film Comment about this German film and comparable on-screen relationships citing Cassavetes and Bergman examples), Zhao Dayong's three hour documentary film (Ghost Town) about how China's Cultural Revolution didn't benefit everyone and (see pic) Samuel Maoz's circa 1982 film (Lebanon) which will screen at Venice, TIFF and at the Lincoln Center - not bad for a first time filmmaker!
The Milk of Sorrow, Gigante, White Ribbon among the Sure Bets for the 2010 Foreign Film Category
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 triple Berlin winner in Adrián Biniez's debut drama Gigante which won for Best Debut Film, Alfred Bauer Award and 2nd place - Silver Berlin Bear.
Desperately Seeking Studio: Antonio Campos’ Afterschool
Having already been to Cannes on two previous trips with his short films The Last 15 (which I was rattled by in a good way – watch it here) and Cinefondation winner Buy it Now) Antonio Campos got to make his third trip out with Afterschool in the Un Certain Regard section in 2008 and the film would appear at TIFF and the New York Film Festival in the fall.
