Month: October 2007

Academy announces Best Foreign Language Film candidates

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed this year's contenders for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar earlier today. The best movies from 63 countries - a record number of submissions - were announced by Academy president Sid Ganis. The awards for outstanding achievements in cinema in 2007 will be presented at the annual awards ceremony on February 24, 2008 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Here they are: Argentina - XXY (Lucia Puenzo) Australia - The Home Song Stories [Read more...]

Pusan International Film Festival ends

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The Pusan International Film Festival, held in Busan, South Korea annually, closed yesterday. The winners in the competitive category New Currents are Life Track, a Chinese and South Korean co-production directed by Jin Guanghao, the Malaysian film Flowers in the Pocket, directed by Liew Seng-tat, and Wonderful Town by Aditya Assarat from Thailand. Flowers in the Pocket has also won the audience award at the festival, while the international film critics jury presented the FIPRESCI Award to the [Read more...]

Blade Runner: The Final Cut – in NY & LA theatres tomorrow

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25 years after its original release, Blade Runner is back in select movie theatres in New York and Los Angeles on October 5. The Final Cut of the film will be released on DVD in December in several editions, some of which will include all the four previous cuts, footage that didn't make it into any of them and, most importantly, a brand new documentary about the movie - Dangerous Days. More info on the DVD can be found here and here. Also, Wired did an interview with Ridley Scott recently and [Read more...]