The latest from the director ‘Dogtooth’ beat a heavyweight field at the Sydney Film Festival, but Cate Shortland’s ‘Lore’ looks to be a global arthouse presence.
'Alps' wins big in Sydney, but 'Lore' is the one making waves
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:28 am · June 18th, 2012
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Cinejabber: The foreign alternatives
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:45 am · April 14th, 2012
Welcome back to Cinejabber, your weekly open space to kick around whatever film-related thoughts you have on your mind.
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Round-up: Uggie finally gets a bone
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · February 15th, 2012
Also: Mourning ‘Contagion,’ and the decade-later Oscar vote
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MCN's Gurus make their final calls
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:26 am · February 11th, 2012
The Gurus o’ Gold collective of Oscar dorks (yours truly included) at Movie City News have offered up final-ish predictions. I imagine David Poland will give us all an opportunity to change this or that, and certainly, my own picks aren’t final until the Friday or Saturday before the show, but for the most part, these are where the chips lie.
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The Long Shot: Language barriers
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:37 am · February 9th, 2012
This may come as a shock to readers accustomed to my usual tone of weary despair when it comes to the category, but I’m about to write in defense of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Foreign Language Film
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:10 pm · February 3rd, 2012
Best Foreign Language Film is a category where Academy voters often like to ignore the precursors and go off-script, but with frontrunner “A Separation” so far ahead of its competitors in terms of acclaim and buzz, will they do so again this year? We discuss what will win, and what should.
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'Bullhead,' 'Pina,' 'A Separation' included on foreign language shortlist
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:17 am · January 18th, 2012
The biggest surprise about the nine-film shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is, well, how unsurprising it is. Seven of the titles I predicted yesterday are on it; the two films I didn’t, Morocco’s “Omar Killed Me” and Taiwan’s “Warriors of the Rainbow,” are the kind of could-have-been-anything choices that we know to […]
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Oscarweb Round-up: Longing for indies of old
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:00 am · September 23rd, 2011
In today’s round-up, Ryan Gibey pines across the pond for the American indie cinema of 20 years past, Patrick Goldstein sees a story of outsider innovation in “Moneyball” and everyone’s talking about the Best Actor race in one way or another.
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