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A Prophet

21 December 2009 1:58 AM, PST | Pure Movies | See recent Pure Movies news »

From the acclaimed director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard brings us the winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, the 2009 London Film Festival and France’s official selection for the 2010 Academy Awards. [hana-flv-player video="http://video.thinkjam.com/%3Fh%3Dee5a754ef229c7cd036c08b9dc2da10c%26q%3Dmed%26m%3Dflv" width="480" height="300" description="" player="2" autoload="false" autoplay="false" loop="false" autorewind="true" splashimage="http://www.puremovies.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/trailers/pm-splash-prophet.jpg" /] From the acclaimed director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard brings us the winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, the 2009 London Film Festival and France’s official selection for the 2010 Academy Awards. Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. »

- Dan Higgins

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Decade in Review: 2005 Top Ten

19 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.

Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith

Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich

My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess

Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped. »

- NATHANIEL R

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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90

18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day

11-20

11. Waltz With Bashir

12. Dig!

13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped

14. The Consequences of Love

15. No Country for Old Men

16. Silent Light

17. Japon

18. The Sun

19. What Time Is It There?

20. Before Sunset

21-30

21. Unrelated

22. One and a Two

23. Ivansxtc

24. Let the Right One In

25. Of Time and the City

26. When the Levees Broke

27. You Can Count on Me

28. A Serious Man

29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

30. Control

31-40

31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu

32. Grizzly Man

33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

34. Être et Avoir

35. Far from Heaven

36. Hidden

37. The Hurt Locker

38. Oldboy

39. The New World

40. The Piano Teacher

41-50

41. Spirited Away

42. Vera Drake

43. American Splendor

44. Capturing the Friedmans

45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

46. Crimson Gold

47. A History of Violence

48. In the Mood for Love

49. Movern Callar

50. The Night of the Sunflowers »

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Trailer For Un Prophete Released

13 December 2009 9:51 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon may have walked away with most of the plaudits and the attention, but this year's Cannes festival was also a success for Jacques Audiard's Un Prophete / A Prophet, which picked up the Grand Prix. It also won the Best Film award at this year's London Film Festival, and the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc, and was France's submission for the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Sony Pictures Classics have picked up distribution, and you can see their trailer in hi-def over at Apple. The film features newcomer Tahir Rahim as Malik, a disenfranchised and illiterate North African whose imprisonment for an unspecified charge sets him on a course to organised crime kingpin-ship, when he comes under the wing of the Corsican mob.If you've seen Audiard's previous The Beat That My Heart Skipped you'll have some idea of the tone to expect. At heart »

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Top 10 films of 2009

11 December 2009 2:59 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

What’s in a list? Probably little more than an opportunity to show off, indulge in a some lazy cultural showboating and maybe even a chance to stir up a dash of barroom provocation. Perfect. So, in no particular order, here is my attempt to do just that. Any disagreements, disputes, outraged contempt, please feel free to comment..... 1.       The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) Haneke’s latest masterpiece. Beautifully scripted, shot and acted it is a glorious examination of the potential for human cruelty and moral collapse, issued down from one generation to the next. Bleak, disturbing but staggeringly beautiful. 2.       A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen) Only the Coen brothers could make the hopelessness of life seem so funny. We can only laugh at our impending demise in this retelling of the story of Job. 3.       A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) Audiard, channelling the very best of Jean-Pierre Melville and the Nouvelle Vague, »

- Nick Clarke

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First sight: Tahar Rahim

10 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Who is he?

A 28-year-old French actor who got the break of a lifetime when he met director Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) in the back of a taxi.

I've heard of the casting couch but never casting cab. What happened?

Well, Audiard was friends with the TV director Rahim was working with. And it turned out he was looking for an unknown-ish actor to play a young French Arab in his prison gangster drama, A Prophet.

Rahim got the part?

Sure did. Audiard says he knew instinctively that he wanted to work with him. Reckons he reminded him of the young Mathieu Kassovitz (who appeared in two of his earlier films). The hunch paid off and A Prophet went on to win the Grand Prix at Cannes.

Doesn't Audiard have a bit of a track record for getting the most out of his young actors?

Yes, »

- Cath Clarke

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King of cool

5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him

Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director says, keeps him warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He was wearing it in the heat of Cannes last May when I first met him, on a blazing roof terrace; and he's wearing it again today, in London, on an autumnal Monday when I catch him smoking his pipe outside the hotel where we're due to meet. 

With horn-rimmed glasses, smart jacket and a cravat, he looks a bit like an English gentleman, a »

- Jason Solomons

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10 Awesome Foreign Actresses in Movies You Must See!

25 September 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

They're young, beautiful and talented, but some of them maybe quite unfamiliar to some of you. In our latest List of 10, tMF compilled 10 Foreign (if you like, Non-American) actresses and the must-see movies that made them 'hot properties' locally. Some of them joined Hollywood already - but have you seen them at their Best?

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- - - It's a pity many of the roles given to them in Hollywood are not what you can call 'prestige' roles. Most of them are given the usual run-of-the-mill characters. Why not take a good look at their previous works and find out why we think they're awesome!

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# 10 - Maria Valverde (Spain) - Maria Valverde was born in Madrid and says she always wanted to become an actress. She finally fulfilled her dream at the age of 16 with a leading role in Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique. »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Tiff 2009: A Prophet For The Oscars

17 September 2009 6:23 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... Screening @ Tiff 2009 in the 'Masters' category, the prison picture A Prophet, directed by Jacques "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" Audiard, will represent France in the foreign-language film category at the 2010 Academy Awards. The thriller previously won the Grand Jury Prize @ this year's Cannes, starring actor Tahar Rahim as an 'aimless' man sent to jail, where he finds his 'calling' and develops into a notorious gangster leader. The film was produced by Why Not Films' Pascal Caucheteux and co-produced by Celluloid Dreams, with the feature already picking up territories including Canada, the Us, Japan and the UK. Sneak Peek a trailer for A Prophet »

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50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 1) - Spotlight on French Cinema

2 September 2009 4:17 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Films on the cutting edge. That's how I would describe the 50 movies on this list. While some moviegoers may find it an 'alien' experience to refer to sub-titles in understanding what's happening on the big screen, a good number of audiences are totally enjoying the different and often surprising take by many foreign filmmakers, nothwithstanding the language barrier.

Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

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André Téchiné, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Barratier, Jacques Audiard, Cedric Clapisch, Francois Ozon... they are, »

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50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 1) - Spotlight on French Cinema

2 September 2009 4:17 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Films on the cutting edge. That's how I would describe the 50 movies on this list. While some moviegoers may find it an 'alien' experience to refer to sub-titles in understanding what's happening on the big screen, a good number of audiences are totally enjoying the different and often surprising take by many foreign filmmakers, nothwithstanding the language barrier.

Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

André Téchiné, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Barratier, Jacques Audiard, Cedric Clapisch, Francois Ozon... they are, »

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50 Essential Foreign Films 2000-2008 (Part 1) - Spotlight on French Cinema

2 September 2009 4:17 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Films on the cutting edge. That's how I would describe the 50 movies on this list. While some moviegoers may find it an 'alien' experience to refer to sub-titles in understanding what's happening on the big screen, a good number of audiences are totally enjoying the different and often surprising take by many foreign filmmakers, nothwithstanding the language barrier.

Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

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André Téchiné, Catherine Breillat, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Barratier, Jacques Audiard, Cedric Clapisch, Francois Ozon... they are, »

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12 articles from 2009

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