In all, thirty-eight gay and lesbian filmmakers have finally found themselves interviewed for one anthology about their careers, their sexuality and how the two affect each other....Matthew Hays, has compiled The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian filmmakers.
'With The Prefect Crime (El Crimen Ferpecto), writer-director Alex de la Iglesia not only succeeds in making his audience laugh out loud, he has delivered the best black comedy to come along in quite some time.'
Volver dominated the noms for Spain's Goya Awards taking in 14 nominations, but it is Alatriste the Viggo Mortensen starrer that picked up an impressive 15 noms. The Goyas will be presented the last weekend of January.
Surprise surprise! The first critic’s year-end best list is out via the National Board of Review and it looks like an Eastwood/Scorsese duel might unfold yet again. Letters From Iwo Jima tops the chart as Best Picture, but Marty picks up Best Director honors. I imagine that more West coast circles and associations might give higher grades for Dreamgirls, while the bizarre omission of Little Children in all of the categories will be compensated by east coast critics.