Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The International Documentary Association honored Ari Folman’s animated Waltz with Bashir and James Marsh’s Man on Wire in a tie for the best documentaries of 2008 last night. The other nominees included Kassim the Dream, Stranded and Young@Heart.
Waltz with Bashir is a beautifully animated and haunting recount of the 1982 conflict between Israel and Lebanon. [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Who’s so serious now, joking boy?
It was another dismal stretch for new release DVDs last week so the Movies You May Have Missed column took a holiday. We’re back this week with one of our favorite movies of the year and no, we don’t mean that little summer movie about a man who minces around [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s winning story of the impoverished Indian teen who has a chance to take the top prize on a popular television game show, won three prizes of its own on Sunday when it snagged a handful of British Independent Film Awards including best British independent film, best director for Boyle and most [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The mysterious body that chooses the pool of potential documentary feature nominees for the Oscars every year probably stepped in another flaming bag of poo yesterday with the release of this year’s short list.
The effusive praise heaped upon Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father by critics, bloggers and audiences alike has gone [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:
Kassim the Dream – the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire – this [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Michael J. Smith Sr. in Ballast
Ready or not, it’s officially awards season with the IFP announcing its nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as the Gotham Awards).
Several films that might be familiar to you if you’ve been reading LiC lately have been showered with a little early awards loving and [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
In this morning’s New York Times, Stephen Holden has an interesting look at the best arthouse films from summer. If you’re like me, you’re a little worn out from all the hubbub over the summer tent-pole season and here are a bunch of terrific alternatives, most of which are still playing in theaters.
I missed Edge [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
This week’s Forecast starts off with a film that has already been released. Why? Because it’s one of the best movies of the year so far and it’s finally expanding from the two theaters in which it opened. If you’re wondering when I’m going to shut up about Man on Wire, the answer is: don’t [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival jury and audience award winners were announced this evening during the Festival’s closing awards ceremony host by William H. Macy.
The Grand Jury Prize for dramtic feature went to Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River.
The Grand Jury Prize for documenatary feature was given to Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Trouble the Water.
Sweden’s King of [...]
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