Movie On 2022

Last Saturday, December 15, the European Film Academy had their ceremony in Seville, Spain where they announced current year's award winners.  Was able to watch it live on TV and was lazy enough to wait until today, when there are too-many industry news, to write post even do I'm glad the BIG winner of the night was none other than Pawel Pawlikowski visually stunning with awesome music (love jazz) Cold War. Will share that the most emotional and exciting moment in the ceremony was undoubtedly the acceptance speech by Carmen Maura that brought tears to my eyes and I wasn't the only one as Pawel Pawlikoski admitted during one of his acceptance speeches, he was also with tears in his eyes plus all the anonymous people in the public when camera panned.  The rest of the show was unsurprising and at times a bit boring. Sigh. So a few days later here are the winners. European Film : Zimna Wojna (Cold War), Pawel Pawlikowski, European Discovery- Prix FIPRESCI : Girl , Lukas Dhont E...

Last Saturday was the annual Goya awards gala and no, didn't watched live as was expecting what always happens, films I don't like win awards ... sigh. Well, this year I was wrong as out-of-the-blue the big winner of the night became a film I haven't seen but definitively will love to watch as I see everything by Isabel Coixet, especially when the male lead belongs to an actor I highly enjoy his performances, Bill Nighy. By-the-way, The Bookshop will have its international premiere at the 2018 Berlinale as a Special Gala. Yes, Isabel Coixet latest directorial master opus won top award and also two awards to Coixet for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay which undoubtedly was a surprise as no, film was not the big quantity winner as that title belongs to Handia (Giant) by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño that collected ten (10) awards (most were tech awards). One of the gala highlights was the several languages of Spanish cinema as The Bookshop is in English, Handia is in ...