2010 September - Awards Daily

For Your Consideration

As we head out of September and into the true heat of Oscar season, it is time to turn our attention to those who may get left behind in the excitement....

David Kehr, New York Times: A pioneering director of live television drama in the 1950s and a Broadway powerhouse in the 1960s, Mr. Penn developed an intimate, spontaneous and physically oriented method of directing actors that allowed their work to register across a range of mediums… ‚ÄúArthur Penn brought the sensibility of ‚Äò60s European art films to...

Three More Notable Social Network Raves

While David Edelstein, who reports for CBS News Sunday Morning, gave The Social Network a mostly positive review, his was the first that criticized the...

Foreign Language Film Submissions: Italy, The First Beautiful Thing

‘AD’ tips us to Italy’s FLF submission, Paolo Virz√¨’s La Prima Cosa Bella (“The First Beautiful Thing”), in which...

Foreign Language Film Submission: Spain, Even the Rain

Thanks to iggy and Faux for the trailer to Iciar Bollain‚Äôs Tambi√©n la lluvia (‚ÄúEven the Rain‚Äù) In February and March of 2000, protests broke out daily in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in response to the government‚Äôs decision to privatize the water company. The cost of water went up by up by 300 per cent. Iciar Bollain‚Äôs latest feature, “Even...