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2009 European Film Awards: Rules & Relevance

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Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments European Film Awards Nominations: Part I Among the eligible films and performers that failed to nab a mention were Giovanna Mezzogiorno for Vincere, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Maren Ade’s Everyone Else, Ulrich Tukur for The White Ribbon, Martina Gedeck for The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank.

European Film Awards 2009: Nominations

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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (middle); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (bottom) Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards.

Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009

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Baby Jane by Billy Clift (top); Shirley Knight, Liz Jahren in Not Fade Away (middle); Homewrecker by Paul Hart (bottom) Reeling 2009, this year’s edition of the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu.

AFI FEST 2009: THE LAST STATION, AFTER.LIFE

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Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station AFI FEST 2009, Sat., Nov. 7 at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica.

AFI FEST 2009 Awards

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AFI FEST 2009 Awards AFI FEST 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009   Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo’s Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s Ajami (above) chronicles the day-to-day, anything-but-routine lives of several denizens of a tough neighborhood in Jaffa, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians are sworn to live in bloody disharmony.

AFI FEST 2009: POLICE, ADJECTIVE; TO DIE LIKE A MAN

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To Die Like a Man by JoĂ£o Pedro Rodrigues (top); Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (bottom) AFI FEST 2009 continues in a more compact version on Friday and Saturday at the Santa Monica Laemmle Theater 4 on 2nd Street in Santa Monica.

Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN

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Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.

Grace Kelly on TCM

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Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols — which is why idols are idols.

AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN, THE SINGULARITY

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Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom) AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov.

AFI FEST 2009: THE ROAD, EASIER WITH PRACTICE

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Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (top); Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice (bottom) Tonight, Wed.

Academy Awards $450,000 to US Film Festivals

Alternative Film Guide  3 days ago

True/False Film Fest In case you think the Academy only hands out Oscars: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Academy Foundation has awarded a total of $450,000 to 24 U.

Oscar-Winning Filmmakers Mark Jonathan Harris, Tracy Seretean at Academy Screening

Alternative Film Guide  4 days ago

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Into the Arms of Stranger: Stories of the Kindertransport, shown as part of the "Oscar’s Docs" series, at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on Monday, November 2, 2009.

Real Horrorshow! Event Photos

Alternative Film Guide  4 days ago

"The Sound Behind the Image III: Real Horrorshow!," presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Science and Technology Council, which focused on the role of sound in horror films from its beginning through the digital age, took place at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Thursday, October 29, 2009.

Shadows of Russia Schedule

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Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Warren Beatty in Reds Below is the complete "Shadows of Russia" schedule on Turner Classic Movies: Wednesday, Jan.

Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM

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Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom) From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies will present the 20-film festival "Shadows of Russia," a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.

Oscar 2010: Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to Host Oscar Telecast

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PRESS RELEASE Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today.

The Movies’ Top Five Scariest Living Dead

Alternative Film Guide  5 days ago

In The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment not only sees dead people, he hears them as well. Bruce Willis, for his part, sees and hears what he wants to see and hear.

THE WAR GAME Review II

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THE WAR GAME Review: Part I Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the 1960s (e.g., Fail Safe, Planet of the Apes) and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its effectiveness when almost all other films on the topic seem corny.

THE WAR GAME d: Peter Watkins

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The War Game (1965) Direction and Screenplay: Peter Watkins Narration: Michael Aspel and Peter Graham     By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: For anyone who thinks that those 50-pack mega-DVD sets of public domain films put out by several different video companies are worthless, I would argue that the amount of films you get for the money is worth it, even if all were mediocre, and that the truth is: each DVD package will come with at least 8-10 enjoyable films, a few true classics like Carnival of Souls or Night of the Living Dead, and every so often a great little film will pop up that makes the package a total steal.

RICH MAN’S FOLLY – George Bancroft, Frances Dee

Alternative Film Guide  6 days ago

Rich Man’s Folly (1931) Direction: John Cromwell Screenplay: Grover Jones and Edward E. Paramore Jr.

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