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The 2018 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film included … Roma (2018) Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico **** Capernaum (2018) Nadine Labaki, Lebanon Cold War (2018) Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland Never Look Away (2018) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan

Monday, November 4 Tribute to Nancy Gates who passed away this March at the age of 93. I haven’t seen any of these: 8 p.m. The Great Gildersleeve (1942) 9:15 p.m. Gildersleeve’s Bad Day (1943) 10:30 p.m. The Master Race (1944). Good people on both sides?

I agree. I have this one sheet framed on my wall.

My top FF films of 2018 of the 7 that I have seen are …. 1. Everybody Knows (2018) Asghar Farhadi, Spain 2. Capernaum (2018) Nadine Labaki, Lebanon 3. Dogman (2018) Matteo Garrone, Italy 4. Cold War (2018) Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland 5. Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan 6. Roma (2018) Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico 7. Border (2018) Ali Abbasi, Sweden

Sunday, November 3 2:30 a.m. Capricious Summer (1968). I didn't think this was as good as Jiri Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains (on at 4 a.m.) but it may be worth another shot.

1. A Christmas Carol (1951) - if this ghost story is considered a horror. 2. King Kong (1933) 3. The Exorcist 4. Horror of Dracula (1958) 5. The Shining (1980) 6. Alien (1979) 7. The Thing (1982) 8. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 9. Psycho (1960) 10. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

I once almost made the mistake of saying to Danny Elfman that Ed Wood was my favourite score of Tim Burton movies. Then I remembered it was Howard Shore.

The 2017 International Film Festival of India Best Picture winner was … BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) Robin Campillo, France

The Best Picture winner of the 2017 Golden Horse Film Festival was … The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017) Ya-che Yang, Taiwan

The 2017 winner of the Cairo International Film Festival's Best Picture Award was … The Intrusion (2017) Leonardo di Costanzo, Italy

The winner of the 2017 Mar del Plata Film Festival Best International Picture was … Wajib (2017) Annemarie Jacir, Palestine The winner of the 2017 Mar del Plata Film Festival Best Argentine Picture was … El Azote (2017) Jose Celestino Capusano, Argentina The winners of the 2017 Mar del Plata Film Festival Best Latin Picture were … Baronesa (2017) Juliana Antunes, Brazil Cocote (2017) Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, Argentina

The 2018 winner of the Hungarian Film Week Best Picture Award was … On Body and Soul (2017) Ildiko Envedi, Hungary

The winner of the 2017 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Little Crusader (2017) Vaclav Kadrnka, Czech Republic

The winner of the 2017 Moscow International Film Festival …. Yuan Shang (2017) Liang Qiao, China

Saturday, November 2 10 a.m. Popeye: Ghosk Is the Bunk (1939). Hey Fedya, this one said 1933 too! 11:30 a.m. Phantoms, Inc. (1945). Short subject starring Arthur Shields. 10 p.m. Roseanna McCoy (1949). Farley Granger in the Hatfield-McCoy story.

The 2017 winner of the Ghent International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Zagros (2017) Sahim Omar Kalifa, Belgium

The winner of the 2017 Stockholm International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Jeune Femme (2017) Leonor Serraille, France

The winner of the 2018 Sweden’s Goteborg International Film Festival Best International Picture Award was … Men Don’t Cry (2017) Alen Drijevic, Bosnia

The 2018 winner of Norway’s Amanda Award for Best Picture went to …. What Will People Say (2017) Iram Haq, Norway

The winner of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Son of Sofia (2017) Elina Psykou, Greece

This film won the Best Canadian Film Award at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival … The Ravenous (2017) Robin Aubert, Canada This film won the International Critics Prize at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival … Ava (2017) Vahid Aghapoor, Iran

This film won the Grand Prize at the 2017 Montreal World Film Festival … And Suddenly the Dawn (2017) Silvio Caiozzi, Chile This film won the Most Popular Film Prize at the 2017 Montreal World Film Festival … Octav (2017) Serge Ioan Celebidachi, Romania

The 2017 Locarno International Film Festival foreign film winner was … Mrs. Fang (2017) Bing Wang, China

Friday, November 1 Dennis Miller sure knows how to pick them: Duck Soup (1933); Dr. Strangelove (1964) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). but I will go will this women in prison with a sadistic warden film: 3:45 a.m. Women’s Prison (1955). With Ida Lupino. Boy are those gals in prison glamorous! And what is Best of Private Screenings (2019) on at 1 a.m.?

Frankenstein Created Women seems to be on a lot for some reason.