Best Film: We Need To Talk About Kevin – dir. Lynne Ramsay Best British Newcomer: Candese Reid, actress, Junkhearts Sutherland Award Winner: Pablo Giorgelli, dir. Las Acacias Grierson Award for Best Documentary: Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life – dir. Werner Herzog BFI Fellowship: Ralph Fiennes and David Cronenberg Details at Cinevue. New...
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Cinema Eye nominations have been announced! Please note short film nomination for Tim Hetherington, the reporter/filmmaker who was killed in Libya. Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking The Arbor Directed by Clio Barnard Produced by Tracy O’Riordan The Interrupters Directed by Steve James Produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James Nostalgia for...
When the unsurprising but disappointing news came down yesterday that, indeed, the MPAA slapped Shame with an NC-17 and not what it truly deserves — an R rating — most people were appropriately outraged. A few shrugged and moved on to a new topic. Worse, some actually defended the MPAA’s boneheaded decision, as in, “it’s an appropriate...
As we contemplate where we’re going and where we’ve been it’s important to take note of how things stand right now. To my mind, there are three films that could win Best Picture if the Oscars were held today. So many movies have yet to open, some of them completely shrouded in mystery, others seem to be deliberately avoiding being screened here in Los...
In the least surprising news of the days, the timid prudes at the MPAA think the sight of Fassbender’s penis in Shame is more traumatic than seeing a bare-breasted girls get scalped and sliced in half in Piranha 3-D. (Imagine the MPAA seizures if Shame was in 3-D.) Fox Searchlight president Stephen Gilula has the right attitude: “I think NC-17 is a badge of honor,...