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2009 | 2008
18 articles from 2009
I’ve Loved You So Long - Review (Blu-Ray)
13 March 2009 9:17 AM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
I’ve Loved You So Long is the brilliant and at times unsettling portrayal of a woman who struggles to reenter society after spending the last fifteen years in prison. Kristin Scott Thomas stars as Juliette Fontaine in a story written and directed by Philippe Claudel. After a fifteen-year prison sentence, Juliette is reunited with her estranged sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein). The two embark on a journey of self-discovery and mystery as we unravel the story behind their separation and Juliette’s inevitable imprisonment. Kristin Scott Thomas delivers a captivating performance that exceeds the boundaries of modern acting. Every moment with Juliette will fill you with a sense of inner-pain as you take on Lea’s desire to penetrate Juliette’s emotional barriers. Scott Thomas and Zylberstein have a remarkable chemistry that can only be classified as honest and real. I’ve Loved You So Long is more than an endearing tale about struggle. »
- Lady Iris
DVD Playhouse--March 2009
10 March 2009 11:25 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—March 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Red Carpet Lineup
8 March 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Post Oscars the the crowds are smaller but red carpets never stopped being walked on. So here we go with this week's sampling.
Maribel Verdú would like to know what it is with French actresses and The Film Experience. How about some attention for the Spanish ladies? Rupert Friend and Keira Knightley attended the opening of his film The Young Victoria (previous post). Rupert will be the love of Michelle Pfeiffer and Emily Blunt's lives this year onscreen. Offscreen he's still Keira's. They make such a beautiful couple but they're both so angular one wonders if they keep gauze and surgical tape on their nightstands just as a precaution. Cheekbones that kill.
Breaking news: Charlize Theron still hot, still knows it. Can we please have more Carla Gugino and Miranda Richardson onscreen? Come on agents, casting directors, producers etcetera. Use them (We discussed Miranda earlier). More on Carla next week since Watchmen opens today. »
- NATHANIEL R
Blu-ray Review: I've Loved You So Long
3 March 2009 12:46 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
When it came time to talk about snubs at the 2009 Oscars all eyes seemed to look in the direction of The Dark Knight, but even worse was the Academy's complete dismissal of I've Loved You So Long, a film that carries two of the best actress performances of the year from Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein, along with a fantastic script, score and direction by first timer Philippe Claudel, named best director of 2008 in the RopeofSilicon Awards. This is a beautiful film and dismissing it for the likes of Frost/Nixon, a film as generic as they come, is a complete act of disrespect and downright ignorance. I've Loved You So Long has a delicate flow to it that keeps its secrets closely guarded yet never to the point the audience is entirely in the dark. The story centers on Juliette (Scott Thomas) who has just been released after »
- Brad Brevet
I’Ve Loved You So Long Blu-ray Review -- The pleasures of the small
2 March 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
With the Oscar hullabaloo all over with, it’s worth noting that Kristen Scott Thomas was considered a contender, and something of an also ran this year for a film that isn’t half bad. It’s a performance film, and she and Elsa Zylberstein are excellent in 2008’s I’ve Loved You For So Long, a French film that likely came to some prominence because of Thomas’s great performance. The film itself is something of a vehicle with a structure that cheats itself a little, but it’s hard to argue that Thomas doesn’t manage to give it her all. She stars as Juliette Fontaine, who has just been released from prison after fifteen years. This though is revealed slowly, after she is re-introduced to her sister Lea (Zylberstein) and her family. They are wary of her, Lea has two adopted daughters and her husband Luc (Serge Hazanavicius »
Seven Cesars for Provost's Seraphine
27 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- A biopic about an unknown painter cleaned up the 34th edition of the Cesar awards (France's equivalent to the Oscars). You would have thought that it was an homage to Sean Penn (the actor was in attendance, first row ticket) and the dearly departed Claude Berri, but this was Martin Provost's night upsetting favorites Jean-François Richet and Mesrine (who won for Best Director and Best Actor) and the Palme d'Or winner The Class from Laurent Cantet winner went home with only the Best Adapted Film. Séraphine won a total of seven awards. Kristin Scott Thomas didn't claim the top prize for Best Actress for I've Loved You So Long (the prize went to Yolande Moreau in Séraphine) but Philippe Claudel won for Best First Film and a very emotional Elsa Zylberstein grabbed the Best Supporting Actress nod. Finally, a little bit of redemption here for Best Foreign Picture, »
Contest - Win "I've Loved You So Long" on Blu-ray! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
27 February 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Enter for a chance to win "I've Loved You So Long" (a.k.a. "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") on Blu-ray! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed drama is a winner of a BAFTA Award in the foreign language category, a Golden Globe nominee and has been nominated for many more awards. Also in the cast are Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Enter now! (registered users only). Not registered? Get registered and you receive a 10% voucher to use on each and every purchase* on our DVD and games store! What's it about? Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life »
Contest - Win "I've Loved You So Long" on Blu-ray! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
26 February 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Enter for a chance to win "I've Loved You So Long" (a.k.a. "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") on DVD! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed drama is a winner of a BAFTA Award in the foreign language category, a Golden Globe nominee and has been nominated for many more awards. Also in the cast are Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn’t easy to begin with. Juliette has to relearn certain basics. The world has moved on and she often seems confused. Although she may seem cold and distant, »
Contest - Win "I've Loved You So Long" on Blu-ray! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
26 February 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Enter for a chance to win "I've Loved You So Long" (a.k.a. "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") on DVD! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed drama is a winner of a BAFTA Award in the foreign language category, a Golden Globe nominee and has been nominated for many more awards. Also in the cast are Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn’t easy to begin with. Juliette has to relearn certain basics. The world has moved on and she often seems confused. Although she may seem cold and distant, »
And the Oscar Goes to the Prettiest Actress that Made a Sex Joke and Starred in 'Volver'
5 February 2009 1:37 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Jeff Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere has never been one to shy from delivering his blunt opinion and today he has delivered a death blow to the illusion that the Oscars are about the actual best performances and films from each year and more about ... well, more about anything but that. In a post highlighting Penelope Cruz's cute appearance on the "Tonight Show" (right) he delivers this bit of encouragement: With this blow-dryer joke, it's safe to say that Penelope Cruz has the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the bag. Maybe she already had it and this is icing on the cake. Whatever. I do know that 65-and-over male Academy members (i.e., the Lorenzo Semple, Jr. crowd) have a rep for responding to alluring female contenders. From this point those who haven't yet voted will be thinking the following about Cruz: (a) great firecracker performance in the Woody Allen film, »
- Brad Brevet
What Films Top Your List of Movies that Didn't Receive Any Oscar Nominations?
3 February 2009 2:41 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Scott Feinberg at The Envelope has created a list of his "The top 25 movies of the past 10 years that got no Oscar love" and it's an interesting idea considering there has been so much hatred aimed at the Academy over The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination, but it did actually receive eight nominations, which is nothing to scoff at. We are talking about films that didn't receive any nominations, zero, zilch, nada. Any come to mind? I had never considered the idea since it is a relatively hard thing to imagine that a favorite film of yours didn't receive any Oscar nominations -- wait, is that why general audiences aren't interested in the Oscars? -- but then I went back over my 2003-2008 Top Ten lists and found several that weren't nominated and put together a quick top ten and an example category I think they should have been nominated in. »
- Brad Brevet
Nominees of the 34th Cesar Awards Unveiled
23 January 2009 10:53 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
A day following the announcement of the 81st Academy Awards' nominees, the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have uncovered their official selections for the 34th Cesar Awards. On Friday, January 23, gangster movie "Mesrine" has been given ten nominations for the France's top awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Jean-Francois Richet.
Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.
In the foreign film nominations, Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" were put in competition with Bouli Lanners' "Eldorado", Matteo Garrone's "Gomorra", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Lorna's Silence", James Gray »
- AceShowbiz.com
Oscar Predictions: The Last Picks Before Thursday's Nominations
20 January 2009 11:38 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
We have just over a day until the 2009 Oscar nominees are announced and depending on when you are reading this maybe even less or they have already been announced. My latest updates have only one change in terms of the top five in any of the eight categories I am predicting, but there is a lot of action in the ranks of 6-10 as those bubble contenders are nipping at the heels of the leaders. On top of that, I cannot begin to tell you how much films such as Milk and Frost/Nixon worry me. These are two films everyone seems to be taking for granted and in the case of Frost/Nixon it seems Frank Langella, Ron Howard, the script by Peter Morgan and the film itself were penciled in before anyone even saw the film. Is it really an Oscar caliber production? Personally I don't think so, »
- Brad Brevet
You Vote: Road to Oscar Noms - The Supporting Categories
18 January 2009 12:52 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Since September 1, 2008 I have been tracking this year's crop of Oscar contenders in "The Contenders" section, and since that time many people have followed along, added their opinions and we have managed to have some great discussions about last year's films and performances. On Wednesday I will be publishing my last list of Oscar nomination predictions before the nominees are announced on Thursday, January 22 and until that time I felt we should take a final look -- together -- at the acting, directing and picture categories and get your opinion on just who you think will be nominated in each category. Today we begin with Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress and over the next couple of days we will look at Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture, each time allowing you to vote on who you think (not who you want) will be nominated for each category. »
- Brad Brevet
Oscar Predictions 7.5: Just Over One Week to Go!
13 January 2009 11:20 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It seems weird doing an Oscar prediction article only a few days after the last one, but with the nominations coming out next Thursday morning I felt it was best to do another update today and then again next Wednesday morning just before the noms are announced. On top of that, this past week threw me for a loop and - among other things - I can't seem to get the idea of Kate Winslet sweeping the Oscars out of my head even though I still don't have her at the top of either the Best Actress or Supporting Actress categories. I have also continued to shift my predictions for the Best Supporting Actor category and I am almost entirely comfortable with this update as I refuse to remove Michael Shannon from the list, no matter what everyone else says. I am probably the only one left that still has »
- Brad Brevet
Oscar Predictions: Take Seven, All Top Eight Categories
11 January 2009 11:35 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I tell yah, a mere 60 minutes after the Golden Globes I was already getting asked about my Oscar predictions which haven't been updated since December 28 as I felt updating them the same day as the Broadcast Film Critics Awards and just a couple days before the Golden Globes would be silly because I would be hammered on my picks immediately afterward. Then again, it is a no win scenario when it comes to working on the Internet so you have to learn to roll with the punches. After last night's festivities, which I have well documented right here and everything that happened prior I think it is safe to say we have a lot to talk about as plenty of movement was seen on Brad's big board of Oscar Predictions which you will soon be perusing over the next couple of pages. First, to answer a few questions: Yes, there »
- Brad Brevet
British Academy Film Awards Announce Longlist Nominations
6 January 2009 11:09 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Boy oh boy, the British Academy sure meant it when they said longlist, 'cause folks, their nomination list is long!
Just an example, under the Best Picture category, 15 films are nominated!
Leading the pack are "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Frost/Nixon" with 14 nominations each.
"Slumdog Millionaire," "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road," "Changeling" and "The Dark Knight" received 13 nominations each, and "Milk" and "Burn After Reading" 11.
The awards will take place Feb. 8 at London.s Royal Opera House.
Click Read More to see the complete list, or, longlist of nominees.
Longlist for the British Academy Film Awards:
Best Film
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"Doubt"
"Frost/Nixon"
"Milk"
"Wall-e"
Adapted Screenplay
"The Baader Meinhof Complex"
"The Boy in the Striped »
- Manny
The BAFTA Long List is Looney
6 January 2009 7:24 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
The BAFTA long lists have been announced. "The What now what list?" I hear awards newbies screaming. Basically the British Oscars have a "semi-finals" round which narrows things down in all categories. Unfortunately it's still (mostly) the same films again. The following films might be nominated for the British Oscar for Best Picture:
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Burn After Reading, Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, In Bruges, I’ve Loved You So Long, Milk, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-e and The Wrestler [Warning: Rant averse readers should scroll away to another post now]
The big thorn in my side this awards season --there's always a thorn -- has been the shabby treatment that Rachel Getting Married keeps getting. As much as I love Anne Hathaway's performance I think the film is even better than she is. Somehow other Best Actress vehicles that aren't as strong, as whole movies go, »
- NATHANIEL R
2009 | 2008
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