Academy announces the Short List for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The nine films selected for the short list are: Belgium: “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Directed by Felix van Groeningen, Bosnia and Herzegovina: “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker,” Directed by Danis Tanovic, Cambodia: “The Missing Picture,” Directed by Rithy Panh. Denmark: “The Hunt,” Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, Germany: “Two Lives,” Directed by Georg Maas, Hong Kong: “The Grandmaster,” Directed by Wong Kar-wai, Hungary: “The Notebook,” Directed by Janos Szasz, Italy: “The Great Beauty,” Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and Palestine: “Omar,” Directed by Hany Abu-Assad.The nominations…
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IN BLOOM directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross is Georgia’s Oscar Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.Early nineties, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is facing violence, war on the Black Sea coast (Abkhazia) and vigilante justice that plagues society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life is just beginning to unfold – in the street, at school, with friends or older siblings. Although they are already dealing with male dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love, life is just beginning for these two…
On Tuesday evening, Dec. 10, 7 pm, Jonathan Demme, Les Filmes Du Nouveau Monde and the Levantine Cultural Center’s New Voices in Middle Eastern Cinema series present a special screening of Nabil Ayouch’s HORSES OF GOD, Morocco’s official entry to the 86th Annual Academy Awards. The screening takes place at Raleigh Studios, Chaplin Theatre, Melrose and Bronson, LA 90038. Enter at Van Ness Gate, 655 N. Van Ness, just south of Melrose. Street parking or lot, $5. (All guests should arrive with PHOTO I.D. at the Van Ness gate, 655 N. Van Ness, no earlier than one half hour prior…
The more than 2,900 members of the European Film Academy – filmmakers from across Europe – have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented: EUROPEAN FILMLA GRANDE BELLEZZA, THE GREAT BEAUTYItaly/France , 140 minDIRECTED BY: Paolo SorrentinoWRITTEN BY: Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto ContarelloPRODUCED BY: Nicola Giuliano & Francesca CimaEUROPEAN COMEDYLOVE IS ALL YOU NEEDDenmark, 111 minDIRECTED BY: Susanne BierWRITTEN BY: Anders Thomas Jensen & Susanne BierPRODUCED BY: Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Vibeke WindeløvEUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCIOH BOYGermany, 83 minWRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jan Ole GersterPRODUCED BY: Marcos Kantis &…
The Consul General of Belgium, Ambassador Rudi Veestraeten presents the screening of ALLEZ EDDY! as part of their monthly “GRIT AND WHIMSY: THE BEST OF RECENT BELGIAN CINEMA” series. This film will be screened on Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 at 7:30 pm, at the Aero Theatre 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403. ALLEZ EDDY! 2012, 100 min., Dir : Gert EmbrechtsFor his feature debut, writer-director Gert Embrechts turns the clock back to 1975 in this charming family comedy. When the first supermarket arrives in his rural village, 11-year-old cycling fan Freddy (Jelte Blommaert) is thrilled to learn that there will…
EAT, SLEEP, DIE is set in contemporary Sweden and looks at a young immigrant who suddenly loses her job and explores themes of working class values, unemployment, immigration and paternal love. Socially realistic, Gabriela Pichler’s critically acclaimed and insightful debut feature premiered at Venice Critics’ Week in 2012 winning the audience award before going on to win the AFI Film Festival’s New Auteurs Grand Jury Award. Since sweeping the Swedish Oscars (Guldbaggen), EAT, SLEEP, DIE was nominated for 2013 Nordic Film Prize which will be announced on October 30. Gabriela Pichler has also been nominated for Europe’s prestigious European Film…
Four lives will change forever as the destinies of a reformed prison ‘general’, a local cop, a charismatic gang leader and a surgeon back from London intersect with a young chess prodigy’s coming of age in tough circumstances in the ‘forgotten’ communities of the Cape Flats. Structured around shifting notions of family and fatherhood and capturing the grit and hardship of fragmented families living on the fringes of society, “Four Corners” is a powerful, redemptive moral tale directed by South African director Ian Gabriel best known for his award winning film “Forgiveness.” It is the first film to be told…
The 13th edition of Hungarian Film Festival, Los Angeles for feature films, opens tonight, November 13th at Laemmle’s Royal by screening of The Notebook, directed by Janos Szasz, as Hungary selection for the Foreign Language Film OSCR. Festival continues until November 21st at Laemmle’s NoHo 7.THE NOTEBOOKNovember 13 7:00PMDirector Janos Szasz and Star Piroska Molnar will attendLaemmle’s Royal11523 Santa Monica Blvd. West L.A., CA 90025 – 310-478-3836Other screening of THE NOTEBOOK at Laemmle’s NoHo 7 – 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, 91601Nov. 14 7:15PMNov. 15 5:00PMNov. 16 1:00PMNov. 17 1:00PMNov. 18 5:00PMNov. 19 5:00PMNov. 20 5:00PMNov. 21 5:00PM THE NOTEBOOK…
The 13th edition of Hungarian Film Festival, Los Angeles for feature films, will open on November 13th at Laemmle’s Royal by screening of The Notebook, directed by Janos Szasz, as Hungary selection for the Foreign Language Film OSCR. Festival continues until November 21st at Laemmle’s NoHo 7. THE NOTEBOOKNovember 13 7:00PMDirector Janos Szasz and Star Piroska Molnar will attendLaemmle’s Royal11523 Santa Monica Blvd. West L.A., CA 90025 – 310-478-3836Other screening of THE NOTEBOOK at Laemmle’s NoHo 7 – 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, 91601Nov. 14 7:15PMNov. 15 5:00PMNov. 16 1:00PMNov. 17 1:00PMNov. 18 5:00PMNov. 19 5:00PMNov. 20 5:00PMNov. 21 5:00PM…
The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season gets off to a dramatic start with the return of Puccini’s musically sublime final opera Turandot – a tale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and powerful, triumphant love. Andrei Serban’s production of this dark Asian fairytale is spectacular, with Sally Jacobs’s magnificent sets and elaborate masks, and costumes inspired by traditional Chinese theatre. One of the greatest Turandot singers today, Lise Lindstrom, makes her Royal Opera debut, with Marco Berti, a wonderful Puccinian singer, in the role of Prince Calaf. CAST: Turandot – Lise Lindstrom Prince Calaf – Marco Berti Altoum -…