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This fall we've seen the premiere of four features and one feature documentary. Julius Kemp‘s English language Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre opened in early September. A horror-comedy hybrid with a strong surreal flavour, it depicts a brutal and bloody battle between whalers hellbent on major mischief and hapless whale watchers who get in their way. Sales company E1 Films has picked up UK rights, with other territories pending.

If you asked me what films I'd like to see in the final 5 tally, I would love to see the Academy embrace non-mainstream items such as the Romanian pic from Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) and Bong Joon-ho's Mother (South Korea)...

The October 1st deadline for all countries wanting into the Academy Award's foreign-language film category has come and gone, but you wouldn't know it since no official list of films submitted has been published.

Have Joel and Ethan Coen followed up No Country for Old Men with another Oscar winner? A clear favorite (I've got my hand up) among the film critics and bloggers polled by IndieWIRE, A Serious Man might have a big and bright future ahead of it and as Eugene points out, "the Coens latest took top honors as Toronto’s best narrative film, finding a place on nearly every single ballot.

The derby for which distributor was going to get the rights to triple award winning title from Cannes (I Killed My Mother) has come to a close and in the same measure, Here Media announced the launch of Here Films - thus putting an end to the confusing co-label of Here! and Regent Releasing. For those who haven't noticed, Here has been slowly doing away with the strictly GL&T label and encompassing a more 'festival fave' orientated direction – just recently they released Best Foreign Language Film winner Departures and Cannes UCR Jury prize winner Tokyo Sonata.