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Coming Soon (12/9/09)
Where the Long Tail Ends —
Authority: 456
Its been a couple weeks since I posted the last Coming Soon list, and I think I will stick to this bi-weekly format for the short term. Not enough changes happen on a week-to-week basis to merit weekly posts, so this should help keep things a bit more interesting. I don’t have much time to delve into it, but their ...22 hours ago -
UK Trailer: A Prophet (Un Prophete)
Living in Cinema —
Authority: 138
This UK Trailer for France’s official Best Foreign Language Oscar submission is the first one that makes me believe it might be worth of the hype it’s been getting since Cannes. There may have been a foreign language trailer floating around somewhere that I missed, but the only one I’ve seen was back in May.A ...1 day ago -
A Prophet Trailer
Female First Blog —
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A Prophet has been causing a stir on the festival circuit this year and finally makes it to UK cinema screens in the new year. Nineteen year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim) is condemned to six years in prison. Arriving in jail friendless and alone with no-one to protect him, he soon finds himself drawn into the brutal ...1 day ago -
Golden Globes 2010: Best Foreign Language Film Longlist
Alternative Film Guide —
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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, ...2 days ago -
A Prophet – A Film Review
No Ordinary Fool —
Authority: 127
With this film, Jacques Audiard returns once more to what are proving for him to be the bounteous hunting grounds of France’s criminal fraternity. Sentenced to a six-year stint inside a tough French prison for violent assault, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a skinny, naïve, and illiterate teenager, soon finds ...2 days ago -
Variety reflects on foreign Oscar history
In Contention —
Authority: 139
The mark of a true Oscar geek is the self-assignment of nuttily completist viewing exercises. Only a select few understand the drive to track down every Oscar-affiliated titles in existence — however obscure, expensive or awful — all so one can say with absolute authority who should have won, say, Best Actor in ...6 days ago -
National Board of Review 2009: Carey Mulligan, A PROPHET, THE COVE
Alternative Film Guide —
Authority: 487
Tahar Rahim in A ProphetNational Board of Review 2009: Top WinnersOther National Board of Review 2009 winners:Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet, a likely Oscar candidate in the best foreign language film category, was named best foreign-language film. Michael Haneke’s widely acclaimed The White Ribbon ...1 week ago -
Sight & Sound names ‘A Prophet’ best of 2009
In Contention —
Authority: 139
No annual Top 10 list carries more weight with me than that compiled by Sight & Sound, the UK’s premier film magazine. One of the most thorough and prestigious collectives out there, it’s collated from the individual lists of over 60 international critics, including the likes of Kenneth Turan, Mark Kermode, ...1 week ago -
The Neurotic is Intelligent and He Has Doubts
Awards Daily —
Authority: 147
by John Villeneuve With the films, A Prophet and The White Ribbon, can AMPAS continue to ignore the best that this art form called cinema can aspire to? Can they smugly rationalize to themselves that they may see the merits in such films, yet, for whatever feeble reason, toss them to the junk heap while coddling ...3 weeks ago -
IFI French Film Festival 2009 – A Preview
No Ordinary Fool —
Authority: 127
Directors Jeunet, Chabrol, Gondry, and Audiard are just four of the reasons to be excited about this year’s French Film Festival in the Irish Film Institute, which runs from 19-29 November. Using, as always, the scientific techniques that some call gut instinct, past precedent, and blind faith, here are a few films ...4 weeks ago -
A Prophet Leads European Film Awards; New Wonderland & Parnassus Posters; Åkerlund Directs Rammstein
:: The Playlist :: —
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-The European Film Award nominations have been released and Jacques Audiards "A Prophet" along with Danny Boyles "Slumdog Millionaire," lead the way with six nods each. There are few surprises among the nominees, with the most of the pictures having received critical plaudits over the past year. "The White Ribbon" and ...4 weeks ago -
Chris Onstad on Italian food and pornography.
THE GURGLING COD —
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"Italian food is like pornography. I can’t define it, but I know when I have paid too much." See also. And consider picking up a tee or something from the shop, so Chris does not have to keep picking up...4 weeks ago -
European Film Awards Nominations
An Irish Bromance —
Authority: 141
The Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo is on at the moment in Spain. Where the nominations for the upcoming European Film Awards were announced. The awards will be held in Ruhr Metropolis (a European Capital of Culture 2010) Germany on 12th December. Triage was shown. Nominations EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ...4 weeks ago -
European Film Awards 2009: Nominations
Alternative Film Guide —
Authority: 487
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (middle); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (bottom)Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are:Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best actress nominee Katie Jarvis) upset that her mother ...4 weeks ago -
Jacques Audiard’s ‘A Prophet’: Political Cinema Whether it Wants to Be or Not
The Moving Arts Film Journal —
Authority: 121
Thick with intrigue and corruption, Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet” is well-stocked with the hallmarks of political cinema: miserable living conditions, exploited minorities, a grittily-tinged color palette. Viewed through this lens it plays as starkly effective polemic: a thriller that also makes a point; crime ...5 weeks ago -
Coming Soon (10/31/09)
Where the Long Tail Ends —
Authority: 456
A huge amount of new additions this week, with the headliner clearly being Michael Haneke’s newest film, and the most recent Golden Palm winner, White Ribbon . And while that is my most anticipated, I am also eagerly awaiting Men Who Stare at Goats , Ong Bak 2 (I don’t care what you say Joe), Up in the Air ...5 weeks ago -
LFF: Ive Been Somewhere, Boy
Film Experience Blog —
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Dave here, reporting from the LONDON FILM FESTIVAL one last time. Its been my first full-on film festival, and if I said I wasnt dying to lie in my bed for twenty-four hours in a deep sleep, Id be lying. But its been a fantastic few weeks, a reignition of my passion for film, and an experience Ill probably never ...6 weeks ago -
Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Winners
Film Festival Ticker —
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"A Prophet" The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival announced its winners and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet picked up the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival’s inaugural Star Of London award for best film. Best Film - A Prophet In this astounding prison drama, when Malik, a young French Arab, finds himself ...6 weeks ago -
DN LFF09: A Prophet – Jacques Audiard
Directors Notes —
Authority: 131
After wining the Grand Prix at Cannes earlier this year, the reputation of Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète ( A Prophet) has, as expected, gone from strength to strength. The film’s continuous rise throughout the year, has seen it take its enviable place at LFF09 as the Sight and Sound Special Screening ...6 weeks ago -
London crowns ‘A Prophet’
Living in Cinema —
Authority: 138
Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or runner-up A Prophet took the inaugural Star of London award at the just concluded BFI London Film Festival. John Hillcoat’s The Road received a special mention.France’s official selection for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, A Prophet is set for a US release on February 26, ...6 weeks ago
