10 articles from 2009
City Of Life And Death and Lebanon Among Batch of 69 Picks for Golden Globes Foreign Category
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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This year, voting members will have to cover 69 picks, and slim it down to a neat five nominations and among the titles worth mentioning that didn't receive a possibility at an Oscar nomination we have City Of Life And Death and Lebanon. Unfortunately, even this list is imperfect as there is no mention of titles that were big with critics such as Women Without Men, I am Love, Hadewijch. - The Golden Globes do things a little differently than the Oscars when it comes time narrowing down the absolute best in foreign language cinema.
The Hollywood Foreign press do without the politics of one film per country quota, which is great when a smaller nation has a stellar year with at least two worthwhile mentions, and just makes sense for the France film industry who on average, give several reasons to appreciate the 7th art. This year, voting members will have to cover 69 picks,
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Strand Offer Refuge to Gallenberger's 'John Rabe'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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Adding to their collection of films picked off from Berlin, Strand Releasing have acquired the U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe - a big budget German feature that looks at the Nanjing massacre of 37-38 from a Schindler's List perspective. - Adding to their collection of films picked off from Berlin, Strand Releasing have acquired the U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe - a big budget German feature that looks at the Nanjing massacre of 37-38 from a Schindler's List perspective. Winner of a four awards at the Golden Lolas (Germany's Academy Awards), this will be a perfect compliment/companion piece to the 2010 release of Lu Chaun's City of Life and Death. Strand is planning a Spring release.
With popular Germans thesps Ulrich Tukur and Daniel Bruhl on board, this is a story about a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the massacre.
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Golden Globes 2010: Best Foreign Language Film Longlist
8 December 2009 5:47 PM, PST
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Ulrich Tukur in John Rabe (top); City of Life and Death (middle); Lebanon (bottom)
A record 69 foreign language films are in the running for the 2010 Golden Globes, Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced.
Among the films in the longlist are Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, starring Penelope Cruz; Costa-Gavras socially conscious drama Eden Is West; Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother, one of the Toronto Film Festival’s best Canadian films of the year; and Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere, about Mussolini’s first wife (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and child (Filippo Timi).
Some of the titles, e.g., A Prophet, The White Ribbon, are also in the running for the best foreign language film Academy Award. Some have already won [...]
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- Andre Soares
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Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 2)
3 December 2009 12:30 PM, PST
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Saying 'okey-dokey'/singalonga Smokey/Coming out of chokey
Ian Dury
When British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads were scaling the charts in 1979 with Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3), the rock group Smokie bumped into Dury at an airport and thanked him for including their obscure band on his list. Dury responded with good cheer, not letting on that his lyric referred, of course, to Smokey Robinson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9AFG1GdgI
Dury's example of keen wit, social criticism and generosity of spirit inspires the following reasons for cheer during this tough holiday season.
1. Off-Ramp. 89.3-kpcc Saturdays 12-1pm, Sundays 7-8pm and archived here. Omnivorous host John Rabe finds stories wherever his mind and feet take him, and his award-winning show mixes the gritty with the beautiful with the comical. One minute he's arguing about Whittier Boulevard architecture with Americana expert Charles Phoenix; the next he's supervising.
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- Michael Sigman
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John Rabe Review
1 December 2009 11:08 AM, PST
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The big winner at this year's German Film Awards was Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe". The film, which tells the story of how a German industrialist saved 200.000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing massacres in 1937, got 4 of the statues (endearingly called the LOLAs) including "best picture" and "best actor".
But while I don't have a problem with actor Ulrich Tukur getting awards for his performance as John Rabe, the movie as a whole will not get much praise from me. While Gallenberger's first full-length feature film at times approaches greatness, an overabundance of "Hollywoodisms" badly mar it.
I'll elaborate, but first..:
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Indie Roundup: 'Dogging,' 'Serious,' 'Capitalism'
8 October 2009 2:03 PM, PDT
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Deals. Sony Pictures Classics acquired The Last Station hot off its debut at the Telluride Film Festival and plans a quick turnaround, releasing it before the end of the year and pushing its stars Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, and James McAvoy for awards consideration, according to Thompson on Hollywood. Described as a "fictionalized chronicle of Tolstoy's last days" by our own Eugene Novikov, the film's main problem is that it 'madly equivocates' on whether Tolstoy, portrayed by Plummer is, essentially, "a crackpot."
Historical drama John Rabe will get a theatrical outing next spring courtesy of Strand Releasing, according to indieWIRE. Based on the diaries of a German businessman, the film tells about his role in saving the lives of 200,000 people during the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in 1937. indieWIRE also reports that IFC Films picked up Bruno Dumont's religiously-inclined Hadewijch and Lorber Films will distribute Nobody's Perfect, a German
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- Peter Martin
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Strand Gives “John” U.S. Home
2 October 2009 11:13 AM, PDT
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U.S. rights to Academy Award winner Florian Gallenberger’s historical drama “John Rabe” have been picked up by Strand Releasing. The German-French-Chinese co-production is based on the diaries of John Rabe who was known as the “Schindler of China” because of his role in rescuing 200,000 civilians during the Nanking Massacre. Strand’s Jon Gerrans negotiated the deal with Beta Cinema’s Dirk Schuerhoff. The company plans a spring 2010 release. Set in Nanking …
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Viff 2009: Guest Directors Attending
27 September 2009 11:43 AM, PDT
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The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009.
Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..."
Over 150,000 people are expected to attend 640 screenings of 360 films from 80 countries.
Here is an up-to-date list of directors, confirmed to attend Viff 2009, along with their films :
"1428"
Du Haibin
"1999"
Lenin Sivam
"65_RedRoses"
Philip Lyall & Nimisha Mukerji
"Adelaide"
Liliana Greenfield-Sanders
"The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector"
Vikram Jayanti
"Ana & Arthur"
Larry Young
"The Anchorage"
Anders Edström & Curtis Winter
"Antoine"
Laura Bari
"Argippo Resurrected"
Dan Krames
"The Art of Drowning"
Diego Maclean
"At Home By Myself... With You"
Kris Booth
"At The Edge Of The World"
Dan Stone
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2009 Lola Winners
24 April 2009 9:54 PM, PDT
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Inspired by real-life events, the World War II drama John Rabe won the 2009 German Film Academy’s Lola for best film. Directed by Florian Gallenberger, John Rabe tells the story of a German businessman (best actor winner Ulrich Tukur) credited with saving more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing (then Nanking) massacre of 1937-38.
Additionally, John Rabe, which has been a box-office disappointment in Germany, won Lolas for best production design (Tu Ju Hua) and best costume design (Lisy Christl). I believe it’s safe to say that Gallenberger’s film will be Germany’s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award. And that it’ll land an Oscar nomination.
The best director Lola went to Andreas Dresen for the popular Cloud 9, in which veteran actress Ursula Werner plays a sixty-something married woman who rediscovers love and sex outside of home.
Özgür Yildirim’s feature-film debut, Chiko, a gangster
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- Massimo David
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German Film Academy Awards - Lola 2009
24 April 2009 5:34 PM, PDT
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German Film Academy Awards - Lola 2009
2009 German Film Academy Award nominations: March 13, 2009
2009 German Film Academy Award winners: Berlin, April 24, 2009
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
John Rabe, starring Ulrich Tukur.
Best film
The Baader Meinhof Complex, director Uli Edel
Chiko, director Ozgur Yildirim
A Year Ago in Winter, director Caroline Link
Jerichow, director Christian Petzold
* John Rabe, director Florian Gallenberger
Cloud 9, director Andreas Dresen
Silver Lola: A Year Ago in Winter
Bronze Lola: Cloud 9
Best Documentary
Lenin kam nur bis Ludenscheid, director Andre Schafer
* NoBody’s Perfect, director Niko von Glasow
Best Children or youth film
Lilly the Witch, director Stefan Ruzowitzky
* Nothing Else Matters, director Julia von Heinz
Best Director
* Andreas Dresen for Cloud 9
Uli Edel for The Baader Meinhof Complex
Florian Gallenberger for John Rabe
Christian Petzold for Jerichow
Best Actress
Anne Maria [...]
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- Massimo David
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