Tag: Colin Firth
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New Japanese Cinema at ‘Nippon Connection’
Founded in 1999 by students at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, the Nippon Connection film festival has become the biggest platform for current Japanese cinema outside of Japan. The festival...
May 16, 2013 / Alison Frank‘Lincoln’ leads 2013 Oscar race with 12 noms
Steven Spielberg’s period drama about Abraham Lincoln’s noble quest to emancipate the slaves looms largest in the 2013 Oscar picture with 12 nominations. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...
Jan 10, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongBrevity Pays Off
Like A Secret World (reviewed last week), Southwest ( Sudoeste , 2012, dir. Eduardo Nunes) was a flawed film. But audiences are more likely to be forgiving of A Secret World ’s flaws because the...
Apr 16, 2012 / Alison FrankTwo Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist and Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis were both released in 1970, both based on novels (by Alberto Moravia and Giorgio Bassani, respectively)...
Mar 6, 2012 / Alison FrankArsenals Day 1: ‘Eternity’
‘Arsenals’, the 21 st Riga International Film Festival has begun, running from the 10 th –18 th of September 2011. Invited as a member of the FIPRESCI critics’ jury, I’ll be focusing mainly on the...
Sep 12, 2011 / Alison FrankPan’s Labyrinth: A Gateway Film
Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno, Guillermo del Toro 2006) is a film that seems to come up frequently on lists of top ten favourite films: finally having the opportunity to see it, I was...
Apr 5, 2011 / Alison FrankVideo: Oscar-Winning Animated Short ‘Logorama’ in its Entirety
As maligned as the Oscars are for the supposed politics of the voting process, their notorious neglect of some of the greatest films of all time and the shady campaigning of certain films, the awards...
Apr 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongFood, Inc. (2009)
Food and film have long been allies in the quest to appease the insatiable human appetite for sensory gratification. That conspiratorial bond has contributed much to America’s culture of euthanasia...
Sep 19, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongOscars Doubling Best Picture Nominees to 10
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced at a news conference that its board of governors has made the decision to expand the number of films to be nominated for Best...
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