Friday, March 12, 2021

César Winners 2021

 46th César Winners





The awards ceremony took place at L'Olympia. These are the winners:


BEST FILM

Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les cons), dir: Albert Dupontel


BEST DIRECTOR

Albert Dupontel, Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les cons)


BEST ACTRESS

Laure Calamy, My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes)


BEST ACTOR

Sami Bouajila, A Son (Un Fils)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Emilie Dequenne, Love Affair(s) (Les Choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Nicolas Mairé, Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les cons)





BEST FIRST FILM

Two of Us (Deux), dir: Filippo Meneghetti


BEST FOREIGN FILM

Another Round, dir: Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)


BEST MALE NEWCOMER

Jean-Pascal Zadi, Tout simplement noir


BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER

Fathia Youssouf, Cuties (Mignonnes)


BEST EDITING

Tina Baz, Adolescentes


BEST SCORE

Rone, La Nuit venue



BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Stéphanie Demoustier, The Girl with a Bracelet (La Fille au bracelet)


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Albert Dupontel, Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les cons)


BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Madeline Fontaine, How to Be a Good Wife (La Bonne épouse)


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Carlos Conti, Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les cons)


BEST SOUND

Adolescentes, Yolande Decarsin, Jeanne Delplanco, Fanny Martin, Olivier Goinard


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Alexis Kavyrchine, Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les cons)


BEST DOCUMENTARY

Adolescentes, dir: Sébastien Lifshitz


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Josep, dir: Aurel


BEST ANIMATED SHORT

L’Heure de l’ours, dir: Agnès Patron


BEST SHORT FILM

Qu’importe si les bêtes meurent, dir: Sofia Alaoui



Wednesday, February 10, 2021

César 2021

46th César Awards Nominations 





The awards ceremony will take place at L'Olympia on March 12.



BEST FILM
Bye Bye Morons (Adieu les Cons), dir: Albert Dupontel
Adolescentes, dir: Sébastien Lifshitz
Antoinette dans les Cévennes, dir: Caroline Vignal
Love Affair(s) (Les Choses qu’on Dit, Les Choses qu’on Fait), dir: Emmanuel Mouret
Summer of 85 (Eté 85), dir: François Ozon

BEST DIRECTOR
Albert Dupontel,
Bye Bye Morons
Maîwenn, DNA
Sébastien Lifshitz, Adolescentes
Emmanuel Mouret, Love Affair(s)
François Ozon, Summer of 85

BEST ACTRESS
Laure Calamy, Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Martine Chevallier, Two of Us (Deux)
Virginie Efira, 
Bye Bye Morons
Camélia Jordana, 
Love Affair(s)
Barbara Sukowa, Two of Us (Deux)

BEST ACTOR
Sami Bouajila, Un Fils
Jonathan Cohen, Enorme
Albert Dupontel, 
Bye Bye Morons
Niels Schneider, 
Love Affair(s)
Lambert Wilson, De Gaulle





BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Fanny Ardant, DNA
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Summer of 85
Emilie Dequenne, 
Love Affair(s)
Noémie Lvovsky, La Bonne Epouse
Yolande Moreau, La Bonne Epouse

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Edouard Baer, La Bonne Epouse
Louis Garrel, DNA
Benjamin Lavernhe, Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Vincent Macaigne, 
Love Affair(s)
Nicolas Mairé, 
Bye Bye Morons

BEST FEMALE NEWCOMER
Mélissa Guers, La Fille au Bracelet
India Hair, Poissonsexe
Julia Piaton, 
Love Affair(s)
Camille Rutherford, Felicità
Fathia Youssouf, Cuties (Mignonnes)

BEST MALE NEWCOMER
Guang Huo, La Nuit Venue
Félix Lefebvre, Summer of 85
Benjamin Voisin, Summer of 85
Alexandre Wetter, Miss
Jean-Pascal Zadi, Tout Simplement Noir



 



BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Albert Dupontel, 
Bye Bye Morons
Caroline Vignal, Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Emmanuel Mouret, 
Love Affair(s)
Filippo Meneghetti & Malysone Bovorashy, Two of Us
Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kerven, Effacer l’Historique

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Olivier Assayas, Wasp Network
Hannelore Cayre & Jean-Paul Salomé, Mama Weed (La Daronne)
François Ozon, Summer of 85
Stéphanie Demoustier, La Fille au Bracelet
Eric Barbier, Petit Pays

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alexis Kavyrchine, 
Bye Bye Morons
Antoine Parouty & Paul Guilhaume, Adolescentes
Simon Beaufils, Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Laurent Desmet, 
Love Affair(s)
Hichame Alaouié, Summer of 85

BEST SCORE
Christophe Julien, Bye Bye Morons
Stephen Warbeck, DNA
Mateï Bratescot, Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Jean-Benoït Dunckel, Summer of 85
Rone, La Nuit Venue






BEST EDITING
Christophe Pinel, 
Bye Bye Morons
Tina Baz, Adolescentes
Annette Dutertre, Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Marital Salomon, 
Love Affair(s)
Laure Gardette, Summer of 85

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mimi Lempicka, 
Bye Bye Morons
Madeline Fontaine, La Bonne Epouse
Hélène Davoudian, 
Love Affair(s)
Anaïs Romand & Sergio Ballo, De Gaulle
Pascaline Chavanne, Summer of 85

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Carlos Conti, 
Bye Bye Morons
Thierry François, La Bonne Epouse
David Faivre, 
Love Affair(s)
Nicolas De Boiscuillé, De Gaulle
Benoît Barouh, Summer of 85

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Calamity, Une Enfance de Martha Jane Cannary, dir: Rémi Chayé
Josep, dir: Aurel
Petit Vampire, dir: Joann Sfar







BEST DOCUMENTARY
Adolescentes, dir: Sébastien Lifshitz
La Cravate, dir: Etienne Chaillou & Mathias Théry
Cyrille Agriculteur, 30 Ans, 20 Vaches, du Lait, du Beurre, des Dettes, dir: Rodolphe Marconi
Histoire d’un Regard, dir: Mariana Otero
Un Pays qui se Tient Sage, dir: David du Fresne

BEST FIRST FILM
Two of Us, dir: Filippo Meneghetti
Garçon Chiffon, dir: Nicolas Maury
Cuties, dir: Maïmouna Doucouré
Tout Simplement Noir, dir: Jean-Pascal Zadi
Un Divan à Tunis, dir: Manele Labidi

BEST FOREIGN FILM
1917, dir: Sam Mendes
Corpus Christi, dir: Jan Komasa
Dark Waters, dir: Todd Haynes
Another Round, dir: Thomas Vinterberg
Eva en Août, dir: Jonas Trueba








Sunday, January 3, 2021

TOP 20 - BEST OF 2020


 

My favorite 20 BEST FILMS of 2020 (in alphabetical order):




BE WATER
Bao Nguyen (US)




BURNING GHOST
Vif-argent
Stéphane Batut (France)




DAYS
日子
Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan)




DRY WIND
Vento seco
Daniel Nolasco (Brazil)




FIRE WILL COME
O que arde
Oliver Laxe (Spain)




FIRST COW
Kelly Reichardt (US)




GAZA MON AMOUR
  مونامورغزة 
Nasser Brothers (Palestine)




MATTHIAS & MAXIME
Xavier Dolan (Canada)




THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS
A metamorfose dos pássaros
Catarina Vasconcelos (Portugal)




NOMADLAND
Chloé Zhao (US)




NOTTURNO
Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)




THE PRINCE
El Príncipe
Sebastián Muñoz (Chile)




SHOULD THE WIND DROP
Si le vent tombe
Երբ որ քամին հանդարտվի
Nora Martirosyan (Armenia/France)




SOUND OF METAL
Darius Marder (US)




SPRING BLOSSOM
Seize printemps
Suzanne Lindon (France)




A SUN
陽光普照
Chung Mong-hong (Taiwan)




SUN CHILDREN
خورشید
Majid Majidi (Iran)




TWILIGHT'S KISS (Suk Suk)
叔 叔
Ray Yeung (Hong Kong)




VITALINA VARELA
Pedro Costa (Portugal)




WET SEASON
热带雨
Anthony Chen (Singapore)



Saturday, January 2, 2021

SFFLA 2021

22nd Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.
7-24, 2021 - VIRTUAL EDITION





SCREENING SCHEDULE:

Week of January 7-10

Another Round - Thomas Vinterberg - Denmark - 117 min
Agnes Joy - Silja Hauksdóttir - Iceland - 92 min
Blizzard of Souls - Dzintars Dreibergs - Latvia - 104 min
The Last Ones - Veiko Õunpua - Estonia - 117 min








Week of January 14-17

Charter - Amanda Kernell - Sweden - 94 min
Hope - Maria Sødahl - Norway - 130 min
Nova Lituania - Karolis Kaupinis - Lithuania - 96 min
Tove - Zaida Bergroth - Finland - 100 min


Week of January 21-24

My Favorite War - Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen - Norway/Latvia - animation 80 min









For more information and to buy tickets, please visit SFFLA2021


Thursday, September 24, 2020

Oscar Entries 2020

Submissions to the 93rd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film







As of today, we have several submissions announced to the 93rd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film. Last year there were 93 submissions from around the world. Stay tuned for more submissions for this year as they get announced.

The category was previously called the Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated.

The deadline for submissions is extended until late 2020. The Academy is scheduled to announce a list of eligible submissions in late December 2020 from which 15 finalists will be shortlisted on February 9, 2021. The final five nominees will be announced on March 15, 2021. The winner will be announced on April 25, 2021 at the Oscar ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.





UPDATE:

The Academy of Motion Pictures announced the 93 submissions. Here is the complete list followed by my rating:

  • Albania - Open Door
  • Argentina - The Sleepwalkers ★★★
  • Armenia - Songs of Solomon ★★★
  • Austria - What We Wanted ★★★
  • Bangladesh - Sincerely Yours, Dhaka
  • Belgium - Working Girls ★★★
  • Bolivia - Chaco
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina - Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★★
  • Brazil - Babenco: Tell Me When I Die ★★★
  • Bulgaria - The Father ★★★
  • Cambodia - Fathers
  • Cameroon - The Fisherman's Diary
  • Canada - 14 Days, 12 Nights ★★★
  • Chile - The Mole Agent ★★★
  • China - Leap ★★
  • Colombia - Forgotten We'll Be ★★★★
  • Costa Rica - Land of Ashes ★★
  • Croatia - Extracurricular ★★
  • Cuba - Buscando a Casal
  • Czech Republic - Charlatan ★★★
  • Denmark - Another Round ★★★
  • Dominican Republic - A State of Madness
  • Ecuador - Emptiness
  • Egypt - When We're Born
  • Estonia - The Last Ones ★★★
  • Finland - Tove ★★★
  • France - Two of Us (Deux) ★★★★
  • Georgia - Beginning ★★★
  • Germany - And Tomorrow the Entire World ★★★
  • Greece - Apples ★★★
  • Guatemala - La Llorona ★★★
  • Honduras - Days of Light
  • Hong Kong - Better Days ★★★
  • Hungary - Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time ★★★
  • Iceland - Agnes Joy ★★★
  • India - Jallikattu ★★★
  • Indonesia - Impetigore ★★
  • Iran - Sun Children ★★★★
  • Ireland - Arracht ★★
  • Israel - Asia ★★★
  • Italy - Notturno ★★★★
  • Ivory Coast - Night of the Kings ★★★
  • Japan - True Mothers ★★★
  • Jordan - 200 Meters ★★★
  • Kazakhstan - The Crying Steppe 
  • Kenya - The Letter
  • Kosovo - Exile
  • Kyrgyzstan - Running to the Sky
  • Latvia - Blizzard of Souls ★★★
  • Lebanon - Broken Keys ★★
  • Lesotho - This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
  • Lithuania - Nova Lituania ★★★
  • Luxembourg - River Tales ★★★
  • Malaysia - Soul (Roh) ★★★
  • Mexico - I'm No Longer Here ★★★
  • Mongolia - Veins of the World
  • Montenegro - Breasts
  • Morocco - The Unknown Saint ★★★
  • Netherlands - Buladó ★★
  • Nigeria - The Milkmaid ★★
  • North Macedonia - Willow ★★★
  • Norway - Hope ★★★
  • Palestine - Gaza Mon Amour ★★★★
  • Pakistan - Circus of Life (Zindagi Tamasha) ★★★★
  • Panama - Causa Justa
  • Paraguay - Killing the Dead
  • Peru - Song Without a Name ★★★
  • Philippines - Mindanao
  • Poland - Never Gonna Snow Again ★★★★
  • Portugal - Vitalina Varela ★★★
  • Romania - Collective ★★★
  • Russia - Dear Comrades! ★★
  • Saudi Arabia - Scales ★★
  • Senegal - Nafi's Father ★★
  • Serbia - Dara of Jasenovac ★★★
  • Singapore - Wet Season ★★★★
  • Slovakia - The Auschwitz Report ★★★
  • Slovenia - Stories from the Chestnut Woods
  • South Africa - Toorbos ★★★
  • South Korea - The Man Standing Next ★★★
  • Spain - The Endless Trench ★★★
  • Sudan - You Will Die at 20 ★★★
  • Suriname - Wiren
  • Sweden - Charter ★★★
  • Switzerland - My Little Sister ★★★
  • Taiwan - A Sun ★★★★
  • Thailand - Happy Old Year ★★★
  • Tunisia - The Man Who Sold His Skin ★★★★
  • Turkey - Miracle in Cell No. 7 ★★★
  • Ukraine - Atlantis ★★★
  • Uruguay - Alelí
  • Venezuela - Once Upon a Time in Venezuela ★★
  • Vietnam - Dreamy Eyes