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  • 14 Dec

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    Nominations from the London Film Critics

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    These seem to make a little bit more sense than the Golden Globe noms. Although Bourne for best picture? That’s a little surprising. Still, much love for Zodiac and Casey Affleck up for LEAD actor. Nice. Feel free to leave your thoughts and let the conversation go where it will. Well, without any further ado, here’s the list…

    Film of the Year
    No Country For Old Men (Paramount)
    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros)
    There Will Be Blood (Miramax)
    Zodiac (Warner Bros)
    The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)

    The Attenborough Award for British Film of the Year
    Once (Icon)
    Control (Momentum Pictures)
    Atonement (Universal)
    Eastern Promises (Pathe)
    This Is England (Optimum Releasing)

    Director of the Year
    Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – The Lives of Others (Lionsgate UK)
    Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood (Miramax)
    Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country For Old Men (Paramount)
    David Fincher – Zodiac (Warner Bros)
    Cristian Mungui – 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Artificial Eye)

    British Director of the Year
    Anton Corbijn – Control (Momentum Pictures)
    Paul Greengrass – The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)
    Shane Meadows – This Is England (Optimum Releasing)
    Joe Wright – Atonement (Universal)
    Danny Boyle – Sunshine (20th Century Fox)

    Actor of the Year
    Ulrich Muhe – The Lives of Others (Lionsgate UK)
    Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros)
    George Clooney – Michael Clayton(Pathe)
    Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah (Optimum Releasing)
    Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood (Miramax)

    Actress of the Year
    Laura Linney – The Savages (20th Century Fox)
    Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose (Icon)
    Maggie Gyllenhaal – Sherry Baby (Metrodome)
    Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart (Paramount)
    Anamaria Marinca – 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Artificial Eye)

    British Actor of the Year
    Sam Riley – Control (Momentum Pictures)
    James McAvoy – Atonement (Universal)
    Christian Bale – 3:10 to Yuma (Lionsgate UK)
    Jim Broadbent – And When Did You Last See Your Father (Walt Disney)
    Jonny Lee Miller – The Flying Scotsman (Verve Pictures)

    British Actress of the Year
    Samantha Morton – Control (Momentum Pictures)
    Julie Christie – Away From Her (Metrodome)
    Keira Knightley – Atonement (Universal)
    Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd (Warner Bros)
    Sienna Miller – Interview (The Works)

    British Actor in a Supporting Role
    Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton (Pathe)
    Toby Jones – The Painted Veil (Momentum Pictures)
    Alfred Molina – The Hoax (Momentum Pictures)
    Tobey Kebell – Control (Momentum Pictures)
    Albert Finney – Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (Entertainment)

    British Actress in a Supporting Role
    Saoirse Ronan – Atonement (Universal)
    Imelda Staunton – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros)
    Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton (Pathe)
    Kelly Macdonald – No Country for Old Men (Paramount)
    Vanessa Redgrave – Atonement (Universal)

    Screenwriter of the Year
    Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – The Lives of Others (Lionsgate UK)
    Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men (Paramount)
    Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood (Miramax)
    Ronald Harwood – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Pathe)
    Christopher Hampton – Atonement (Universal)

    British Breakthrough – Acting
    Saoirse Ronan – Atonement (Universal)
    Sam Riley – Control – (Momentum Pictures)
    Thomas Turgoose – This Is England (Optimum Releasing)
    Benedict Cumberbatch – Amazing Grace (Momentum Pictures)
    Dakota Blue Richards – The Golden Compass (Entertainment)

    British Breakthrough – Film-making
    John Carney, writer and director – Once (Icon)
    Sarah Gavron, director – Brick Lane (Optimum Releasing)
    Anton Corbijn, director – Control (Momentum Pictures)
    Matt Greenhalgh, writer – Control (Momentum Pictures)
    Stevan Riley, writer, director, producer – Blue Blood (Miracle/Warner Music)

    Foreign Language Film of the Year
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Pathe)
    4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Artificial Eye)
    The Lives of Others (Lionsgate UK)
    Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros)
    Tell No One (Revolver Entertainment)

  • 13 Dec

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    The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations

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    Casey AffleckWell folks, it’s officially that time of year if you were wondering. The Golden Globe nominations were released today, marking the true beginning of the awards season (because everybody knows that the Globe and Oscars are the only awards that matter, riiiiight?).

    Ahh, you can just smell it in the air. The debating, the arguing, the confusion, the waving it all off like awards don’t even matter… A lot of the nominations are surprising, as is always the case, and a lot of the omissions are even more surprising (c’mon, one nomination for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford? Sheesh… I’m going to have to make a few calls to the foreign press). So, folks, let’s get into it and talk about what really annoys us about these nominations (besides that Casey Affleck is somehow listed under Best Supporting Actor), and who knows, there might even be a few things that we like, eh?

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  • 12 Dec

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    Canada’s Top 10 of 2007

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    My Winnipeg StillLet the list-fests begin. Since Row Three has a Canadian majority on the writing staff, why not begin with something from our frozen wastelands. ‘Canada’s Top 10′ was established a few years ago by the Toronto International Film Festival Group to more or less act as a way to issue press release that yes (!) Canadians make films outside of Hollywood North American studio productions being filmed up here for tax purposes. What this means is that almost anything high-profile and Canadian (close to an oxymoron in cinema unfortunately) will make the list. Even the painfully unfunny Trailer Park Boys Movie made the grade last year (full disclosure, I’m a big fan of that show, so the movie was painfully disappointing in that it was poorer than even a bad TV episode, of which there were almost none.)

    But I digress. Like good little non-confrontational Canucks, the moderators of this list chose not to number or prioritize the films. So you can sort out what deserves to be at the top. I nominate Guy Maddin‘s fabulously vitriolic, absurdist, surreal and downright hilarious My Winnipeg to just barely edge out David Cronenberg‘s Eastern Promises, but I’ve got to confess that I’ve only seen three films on the list (I’ll bet that will be 3 more than your average Canadian though). Both Marina and myself are big fans of Bruce McDonanld‘s experimental split-screen Into The Night type film, The Tracey Fragments, that stars future A-list actress Ellen Page (To show how incestuous our film industry is, it is noteworthy that young Miss Page got her start on TV’s Trailer Park Boys mentioned above.

    Also, a huge shout out to Madame Tutli-Putli on the short films list, which is a must see for lovers of existential surrealism and stop motion animation. The two directors (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski) responsible for this gorgeous 17 minute short film (Available for purchase from the National Film Board if you have a Canadian shipping address). With a single film, they have joined the ranks with Jan Svankmajer, Henry Selick and The Brothers Quay in terms of groundbreakingly good stop-motion.

    Without further digression, here are the Top 10 Lists for Features and Shorts:

    Feature Films
    * L’Âge des Ténèbres – Denys Arcand
    * Amal – Richie Mehta
    * Continental, Un Film Sans Fusil – Stéphane Lafleur
    * Eastern Promises – David Cronenberg
    * Fugitive Pieces – Jeremy Podeswa
    * My Winnipeg – Guy Maddin
    * A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman – Peter Raymont
    * The Tracey Fragments – Bruce McDonald
    * Up The Yangtze – Yung Chang
    * Young People Fucking – Martin Gero

    Short Films
    * Code 13 – Mathieu L. Denis
    * The Colony – Jeff Barnaby
    * Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! – Sébastien Pilote
    * Farmer’s Requiem – Ramses Madina
    * Les Grands – Chloé Leriche
    * I Have Seen the Future – Cam Christiansen
    * I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin
    * Madame Tutli-Putli – Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
    * POOL – Chris Chong Chan Fui
    * Terminus – Trevor Cawood

  • 05 Dec

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    A Taste of Oscar To Come? – NBR Announces Winners

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    No Country for Old Men Movie PosterThe National Board of Review announced their winners for 2007 and though some of them, like George Clooney for Michael Clayton and Julie Christie for Away from Her (I could swear this one was a 2006 release), are a bit of surprise, others like No Country for Old Men taking home the gold for Best Film, are not.

    This is the first of the big awards leading up to Oscar and I have a feeling it’s only the first time we’ll be seeing No Country for Old Men topping an awards list. Note the glaring omission of There Will Be Blood (review) from the list.

    Best Film: No Country for Old Men

    Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd

    Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton

    Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her

    Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

    Foreign Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

    Documentary: Body Of War

    Animated Feature: Ratatouille

    Ensemble Cast: No Country For Old Men

    Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Emile Hirsch, Into The Wild

    Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Ellen Page, Juno

    Best Directorial Debut: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone

    Best Original Screenplay (tie): Diablo Cody, Juno and Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl

    Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men

    Also, be sure to check out the list of top ten movies, in alphabetical order as picked by the NBR, of 2007 after the jump!

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  • 27 Nov

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    2007 Independent Spirit Award Nominees Announced

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    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Movie StillThe Oscars is often the awards show of the season but for well versed film fans, the Independent Spirit Awards are as important in that they often shine the spotlight on the so called “Hidden Gems” of the year, great films that do not and, likely, will not get the attention they so richly deserve and rather shocking to myself, I’ve seen most of the films on the list.

    To make the cut the films have to be independently financed and produced for under $20 million (including post production). That budget might seem a bit excessive for “indie” credibility but when put up against the Hollywood machine which pumps them out at $80 million plus, this is definitely an achievement. The nominees for the 2007 awards have been announced and I must say I’m very impressed with the list – it’s been a great year for independent film.

    I’m happy to see lots of love for Julian Schnabel’s fantastic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly but most exciting is that The Spirit Awards have given Israel’s brilliant The Band’s Visit some recognition. I’m not convinced it will win but it certainly deserves a spot on the list.

    For fun, I’ve marked my winning guesses with (*).

    Best Feature
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    I’m Not There
    Juno(*)
    A Mighty Heart
    Paranoid Park

    Best First Feature
    2 Days in Paris
    Great World of Sound
    The Lookout(*)
    Rocket Science
    Vanaja

    Best Director
    Todd Haynes (I’m Not There)
    Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
    Jason Reitman (Juno)
    Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)(*)
    Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park)

    The rest of the list is after the jump!

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