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Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews

22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.

Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"

The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor, …

- Roger Ebert

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Languages: An Interview with Patrice Chéreau

21 October 2009 11:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

Persecution may very well be Patrice Chéreau's most abrasive film. That's saying a lot. After the Cannes-ready provocations of Queen Margot, Chéreau directed Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, the film that introduced the stance he's held for the last decade: an abrasive humanism that abandons all pretensions of style or taste to unbendingly identify with unlikeable people. If we saint the Dardennes for their devotion to victims, we should saint Chéreau for his devotion to victimizers. Though his 2005 feature Gabrielle remains his masterpiece (if we apply that term to Chéreau, a director who makes "mastery" seem worthless), there's much to be said about Pesecution's story of an ordinary asshole (Romain Duris) who realizes he feels more comfortable around his pathetic stalker (Jean-Hugues Anglade) than his independent girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

Besides directing, Chéreau has an enviable resume as an actor, having worked with Youssef Chahine, Andrzej Wajda, …

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2009 Chicago International Film Festival ‘Best of the Fest’ For Oct. 21, 2009

20 October 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – As the 45th Chicago International Film Festival comes to a close, this year’s award-winning and most popular films are being screened one more time. All of the screenings will be held at the AMC River East 21 theater at 322 E. Illinois St.

Mississippi Damned (USA), Director: Tina Mabry

Winner Gold Hugo: Best Film, Best Screenplay - Tina Mabry, Best Supporting Actress - Jossie Harris Thacker

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They weren’t the first to dream of escaping their small Mississippi town, but—raised among their family’s vicious cycle of abuse, addiction, and lies—three young black children learn the hard way that their dreams will never be enough. Based on a true story, Mississippi Damned is the brutally honest tale of what happens when a family’s haven is also its prison.

‘Mississippi Damned,’ Winner of the Gold Hugo for Best Film at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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4 Movie Clips from Jane Campion’s Bright Star Starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish

15 September 2009 6:20 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Opening this Friday, in limited release, is the new film from director Jane Campion “Bright Star”. The film premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and it’s a portrait of love and loss between the 19th-century Romantic poet John Keats and the 18-year-old muse-next-door, Fanny Brawne. They’re played by Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish. To help promote the film, we’ve been provided with 4 clips and they’re after the jump. Take a look.

Here’s the full synopsis:

Bright Star, one of the most highly praised films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a portrait of love and loss between the 19th-century Romantic poet John Keats and the 18-year-old muse-next-door, Fanny Brawne. The film’s title comes from a love poem for Brawne, which Keats wrote in the flyleaf of his copy of the works of Shakespeare. Jane Campion’s return to the big …

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Denis, Rivette, and Moore!: Venice Lineup Announced

30 July 2009 1:10 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Robert here, noticing that the Venice Film Festival announced the lineup for it's 66th installment on Thursday. Here's the in-competition list, with a few bits I managed to find about each film.

Baaria (Opening Film) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

The director of Cinema Paradiso gives us a three-generation spanning epic about his Italian hometown.

Soul Kitchen dir. Fatih Akin (pictured)

Akin directed the terrific Head-On and The Edge of Heaven (if you haven't seen either or both, do now). He re teams with Birol Unel from Head-On for a comedy about culture and gender clash.

La Doppia Ora dir. Giuseppe Capotondi

It's been tough finding information on this as Venice's website (nor IMDb) has much at the moment. I can tell tell you is that it's a freshman effort, it's Italian, and it's fun to say... La Doppio Ora!

Yi ngoi (Accident) dir. Cheang Pou-Soi

A Hong Kong crime film about …

- Robert

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White Tiger For Hanif Kureishi

23 July 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Hanif Kureishi will adapt Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger for the screen, according to Variety.The Indian journalist Adiga's debut novel won the Man Booker Prize for 2008. Written in epistolary form, it involves Balram, the son of a rickshaw-puller in rural India, and his rise through society. Initially employed in a tea shop, he becomes a chauffeur in Delhi and a businessman in Bangalore. There's a lot of social and class commentary, a bit of murdering, and it's pretty funny.It would be crass to say "it's going to be a bit like Slumdog Millionaire" just because it's an Indian rags-to-riches crime story, but suffice to say it's reasonably clear why this is an enticing prospect for the cinema at the moment.Kureishi is no slouch when it comes to films and novels though. He is himself the bestselling author of the likes of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy, …

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Al Pacino to Play Napoleon in John Curran's Project?

8 April 2009 12:41 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Al Pacino is a legend in his own right. He's played countless iconic characters, uttered famous lines in famous scenes of famous films. And he's set to do it again. The actor has long been interested in playing one of the most complex and infamous characters in human history: Napoleon Bonaparte. With Betsy and the Emperor, he's finally going to get his chance, according to THR. The film is to be the screen adaptation of Staton Rabin's children's book "Betsy and the Emperor", about Napoleon's last five years in exile on the island of St. Helena and his interactions with the teenage daughter, Miss Betsy Balcombe, of his jailer. The script was written by Brian Edgar and the film will be directed by John Curran, of We Don't Live Here Anymore and The Painted Veil. Previously, French director Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot, Intimacy) was on-board at Warner Brothers, with Pacino …

- Brandon Lee Tenney

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2009 | 2001

7 articles from 2009

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