2009 Rome Film Festival Awards 2009 Rome Film Festival: Oct. 15-23, 2009 Danish-born filmmaker Nicolo Donato’s feature-film debut, Brotherhood revolves around a group of Danish neo-Nazis, with particular focus on two members of this group of violent, xenophobic, anti-gay bigots: newbie Lars (Thure Lindhardt), who has been recently discharged from the army, and Jimmy (David Dencik), one of the leaders of the gang. Things get complicated after Lars moves in with Jimmy and discovers that he feels more than a mere brotherly attachment to his mentor. Even more shocking, Jimmy realizes that he feels something quite special for Lars as well. Full story...
Cavalcade (1933)
Direction: Frank Lloyd
Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien; from Noel Coward’s play
Cast: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay
Synopsis:
Upstairs (Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard) and downstairs (Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor) in a British household, from 1900 to 1933.
A Passage to India (1984)
Direction: David Lean
Screenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster’s novel
Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth
Judy Davis in A Passage to India
Synopsis:
In the early 20th century, a British woman, Miss Quested (Judy Davis), and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, Mrs.
Golden Globes 2010 Predictions – Best Screenplay
Jane Campion, Bright Star (above, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw)
A poet’s brief and tragic love affair
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (above, Paula Patton)
An illiterate pregnant teen, her teacher, her social worker & her mother
Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, The Lovely Bones (above, Saoirse Ronan)
A murdered girl among angels and her murderer among us
Anthony Peckham, Invictus (above, Morgan Freeman)
One Nation Under Rugby
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air (above, Anna Kendrick, George Clooney)
A professional downsizer is grounded, but love is up in the clouds
Oftentimes, a film that doesn’t make it into the Golden Globes‘ Best Picture – Drama or Best Picture – Comedy or Musical shortlist, ends up [.
Super 8 1/2 (1995)
Direction & Screenplay: Bruce LaBruce
Cast: Bruce LaBruce, Stacy Friedrich, Mikey Mike, Nicholas Davies (aka Klaus von Brücker), Christeen Martin, Kate Ashley, Scott Thompson, Mike Gibb
After Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 but before Rob Marshall’s Nine there was Bruce LaBruce’s "8 3/4" — better known as Super 8 1/2, LaBruce’s no-budget mix of cleverness, self-indulgence, and explicit sex.
2009 Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards
2009 Mar del Plata Film Festival: Nov. 7-15, 2009
Directed by Mariana Chenillo, Cinco días sin Nora (Five Days Without Nora) tells the story of a woman who, after fourteen failed suicide attempts, finally succeeds in moving on to the Great Beyond.
At Film Threat: Phil Hall has posted an excerpt from his book The History of Independent Cinema, listing the 25 most important corporate-sponsored films of all time.
At indieWIRE, Peter Knegt’s "For Your Consideration: 25 Things The Academy Got Right In The 2000s.
2010 Golden Globe Predictions – Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats (with Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges)
A man with a (goat-)killer stare
Matt Damon, Invictus
A rugby player attempts to Save His Nation
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy, wine-drinking radical ideologue
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
A man with some serious issues
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
A Nazi colonel fluent in four languages
Considering the lack of stand-out supporting male performances — in terms of buzz, that is — the Golden Globe field in the Best Supporting Actor category remains wide open.
Peter Bratt’s family drama La Mission, about the relationship between an ex-con (Benjamin Bratt, above) and his gay son (Jeremy Ray Valdez), will open the 2009 edition of the Artivist Film Festival, which runs Dec.
The 2009 Artivist Film Festival will present the Los Angeles premiere of Arthur C. Smith III’s Ice Bears of the Beaufort (above) and Bryan Single’s Children of War on Friday, Dec.
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