Movie On 2022

As promised and because it's easy to read in one single place all winners, here are the winners of the 2018 Biennale Cinema. Watched awards live but ceremony was not much entertaining and with so many American movies in the festival I was not that much interested in learning winners (sigh) nor watching clips. Nevertheless I'm glad that most awards went to interesting possibilities and well-known and much-admired-by-me directors like Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos and Julian Schanbel.  Worth mentioning that Audiard's award relaxes me a bit as I'm still anxious about his first film in a language that is not his mother tongue as there are so-many disasters with so-few successes when extraordinary directors work on English-language productions. Sigh. Official Selection Golden Lion for Best Film : Roma , Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize : The Favourite , Yorgos Lanthimos, UK, Ireland and USA Special Jury Prize : The Nightingale , Jennifer Kent, Australi...

As was not easy to gather info about films countries submitted to Oscars 2019, decided to do the two missing posts about the 2018 Biennale as it's a lot easier to check info from only one source.  This is the lineup, the second will list the award winners. Let's start by sharing that the festival poster was made by Lorenzo Mattotti. Mattotti says the following about his design, " I believe that a poster must have something intriguing about it, that attracts the eye, that attracts thought, but without revealing too much. It needs to have a sort of enigma, a sort of mystery to solve. After various attempts, I developed this idea of a girl of this female character – with a very graphic, unrealistic face – who looks with a rather serious expression through a lens. And instead of this lens, there’s Earth, planet Earth, symbolizing a gaze directed at us. Then there is a white square, and I believe that this combination is a successful match, because people wonder: what is that...

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Update Yesterday the Academy released the accepted foreign-language films that will compete to be included in the shortlist of 9, get one of the 5 nominations and the ultimate goal, win an Oscar. This year there are a total of eighty-seven (87) films, five short of last year ninety-two and there are quite a few countries that submit for the first time like Belarus and Malawi, for example. Until yesterday the list had 81 countries, but there are not 6 new as 2 are out (Cuba and Kyrgyzstan) and 8 (Armenia, Australia, China, Kazakhstan, Malawi, New Zealand, Niger, Yemen) are new.   There are few films that have a different English name in the official list and for post purposes the list below will have the names in the official list, even when at least one film, official English name is not the one in AMPAS list. Last year there were twenty-seven (27) films made by a female director, this year there are only seventeen (18) which is 9 less than last year a...

Watching red carpet, soon the top prizes of Cannes 2018. Saturday May 19th Morning Update :  Un Certain Regard winners,  Queer Palm winners and more ... Today AFP gives us the most interesting news as this year will be the first time in 71 years of the festival where those Cannes main awards that used to receive diplomas will receive a mini-palmes d'or! Main Competition Palme d'Or: 万引き家族 Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters), Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan Grand Prix: BlacKkKlansman , Spike Lee, USA Jury Award : كفرناحوم Capharnaüm (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki, Lebanon and France Palme d'Or Special : Le Livre d'image (The Image Book), Jean-Luc Godard,  France Best Director : Pawel Pawlikowski for Zimna wojna (Cold War), Poland, France and UK Best Screenplay : (tie) Alice Rohrwacher for Lazzaro Felice (My Bitter Land), Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany Nader Saelvar for Three Faces , Jafar Panahi, Iran Best Actress : Samal Yeslyamova in Айка Ayka (My Little...

Yesterday, the Cannes parallel section had their award ceremony with top award going to a Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama. Check winners below in GREEN and at official press release here . Most interesting is the availability of 500 FREE tickets to watch the 2018 short films selection via Festival Scope.   Starting today, May 17th and until May 27th IF you hurry, will be able to watch the shorts; but act fast as there are only 500 tickets and yes, they're sold out quite quickly.  Festival Scope site is here . ---///--- 4/19/18 A few days back organizers released the video with Charles Tesson, Semaine de la Critique Artistic Director and Charlotte Lipinska, journalist and film critic announcing the selection for the 2018 edition of the Critics' Week and there is no surprise when we find that -as always- selection is eclectic (and strange) but having high-profile actors in the selection, is quite unusual and yes, surprising. Paul Dano's directing debut film has J...

The ACID program at the Cannes International Film Festival was created in 1993. Films are chosen by fifteen or so filmmakers, members of the association. It screens nine feature films, fiction and documentary, chosen among hundreds of works from all around the world. ACID filmmakers follow their love for a film and wish to give visibility to directors whose work is scarcely distributed, in order to facilitate a theatrical release. The screenings, open to professionals and also to the public are all followed by Q&As with the films' crews and ACID filmmakers who supported the films. The films shown in Cannes are then accompanied by ACID and its filmmakers in the various stages of the theatrical release (search for distributors / promotion / programming / organization of the Q&A's / audience research). ACID is a film directors association that has been promoting the distribution of independent cinema in movie theatres since 1992. The founding principle: the support broug...

As announced during the press conference of April 12th, today, April 19, organizers announced the films added to the composition of the Official Selection 2018. There is some relief to my not positive feeling that this year there is an incredibly great official competition jury and there are not many great films for them to select winners from.  But now things can change a bit as, ladies and gentlemen, please notice that Nuri Bilge Ceylan is as of now in the competition to win the Palme d'or and perhaps has become the top contender along Jia Zhangke.  Well, at least their films have become must-be-seen for me no matter whatever happens in Cannes. In the competition two more films by Yann Gonzalez and Sergey Dvortsevoy (remember Tulpan?) to make a total of twenty-one (21) films in the competition.  Still the list of great directors with films ready -and not in Cannes- is long, very-long, longer than the 21 films selected to be in competition.  To be positive, seems no...