Bogie56 Posted October 31 The winner of the 2018 Sweden’s Goteborg International Film Festival Best International Picture Award was … Men Don’t Cry (2017) Alen Drijevic, Bosnia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted October 31 The winner of the 2017 Stockholm International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Jeune Femme (2017) Leonor Serraille, France Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted October 31 The 2017 winner of the Ghent International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Zagros (2017) Sahim Omar Kalifa, Belgium Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nakano Posted October 31 I hope it is ok to recommend a film released before 2017. Noyade Interdite 1987 aka Widow's Walk from Pierre Granier-Deferre with Philippe Noiret,Guy Marchand, Marie Trintignant and others.Very good cop movie,2 cops who do not like each other are in a beach resort,4 murders in 4 days.a genuine surprise ending prefigures a big hit (1991) by several years.You will guess it when you will see it..8/10 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nakano Posted October 31 Berthe Morisot 2012 by Caroline Champetier with Marine Delterme released in Japan but to tv in Europe.Beautiful film on a section of the life of impressionist painter Berthe Morisot-covers about 10-15 years- she was the first woman admitted in the original club of the impressionist group her relation with Edouard Manet is extensive in the film.Very good to know her work and style,i looked for her on the internet,quite exquisite work.8/10 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 The winner of the 2017 Moscow International Film Festival …. Yuan Shang (2017) Liang Qiao, China Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 The winner of the 2017 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Picture Award was … Little Crusader (2017) Vaclav Kadrnka, Czech Republic Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 The 2018 winner of the Hungarian Film Week Best Picture Award was … On Body and Soul (2017) Ildiko Envedi, Hungary Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 The 2017 winner of the Cairo International Film Festival's Best Picture Award was … The Intrusion (2017) Leonardo di Costanzo, Italy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 The Best Picture winner of the 2017 Golden Horse Film Festival was … The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017) Ya-che Yang, Taiwan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 1 The 2017 International Film Festival of India Best Picture winner was … BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) Robin Campillo, France Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 2 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 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoraSmith Posted November 2 Utøya: July 22, Erik Poppe, Norway Happy As Lazzaro, Alice Rohrwacher, Italy Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi, Spain Sir, Rohena Gera, India Daughter of Mine, Laura Bispuri, Italy 3 Faces, Jafar Panahi, Iran The Guilty, Gustav Möller, Denmark Capernaum, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon Girl, Lukas Dhont, Belgium The Conductor, Maria Peters, Netherlands 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoraSmith Posted November 2 Utøya: July 22 is based on the true events on the Norwegian island on the day of Anders Breivik's assault. It's filmed in a realistic style with a hand camera. It looks like it's shot in one major take, although that's not strictly so. It shows the experience of the young people in the camp. Andrea Berntzen plays the leading character who's missing her younger sister. After twenty minutes the first shots sound. The young people flee into the woods and try to save themselves. The next seventy minutes are full of panic and uncertainty. It's very intense. Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) was inspired by a news story in the 1990s. A group of farmhands was working in a sharecropping system, unaware that unpaid labour has been banned a long time ago. After their release they don't know what to do and become beggars in the city. Magical realism comes in when one of the farmhands, the naive Lazzaro, wakes up after being dead or asleep for twenty-five years without getting older. It's a weird but fascinating film. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted November 2 2018 Burning, Chang-dong Lee, South Korea The Guilty, Gustav Moller, Denmark The Night Comes for Us, Timo Tjahjanto, Indonesia Border, Ali Abbasi, Sweden The Night Eats the World, Dominique Rocher, France Shadow, Zhang Yimou, China Operation Red Sea, Dante Lam, China Rampant, Sung-hoon Kim, South Korea I've also seen: Climax, Gaspar Noe, France Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico Ever After, Carolina Hellsgard, Germany Animas, Laura Alvea & Jose F. Ortuno, Spain Girls with Balls, Olivier Afonso, France 1001 Movies You Must See Capernaum, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted November 2 7 hours ago, CoraSmith said: Utøya: July 22 is based on the true events on the Norwegian island on the day of Anders Breivik's assault. It's filmed in a realistic style with a hand camera. It looks like it's shot in one major take, although that's not strictly so. It shows the experience of the young people in the camp. Andrea Berntzen plays the leading character who's missing her younger sister. After twenty minutes the first shots sound. The young people flee into the woods and try to save themselves. The next seventy minutes are full of panic and uncertainty. It's very intense. I've seen 22 July, also from 2018, but English-language and from director Paul Greengrass. It covers the same event, but from the point of view of a young man (Jonas Strand Gravli), as well as a bit from the shooter's point of view. Have you seen this version as well, and if so, how would you compare the two? I liked the English-language version, or I should say, I was moved by it. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted November 2 1. Decision: Liquidation, Aleksandr Aravin, Russia 2. Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland 3. Utøya: July 22, Erik Poppe, Norway 4. Flavors of Youth, Haoling Li, Yoshitaka Takeuch, Xiaoxing Yi, China 5. Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico 6. Dressage, Pooya Badkoobeh, Iran 7. The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch, Michael Steiner, Switzerland 8. Operation Red Sea, Dante Lam, China 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted November 2 46 minutes ago, LawrenceA said: I've seen 22 July, also from 2018, but English-language and from director Paul Greengrass. It covers the same event, but from the point of view of a young man (Jonas Strand Gravli), as well as a bit from the shooter's point of view. Have you seen this version as well, and if so, how would you compare the two? I liked the English-language version, or I should say, I was moved by it. I've seen both and prefer the foreign version. The English one is moving but revolves more around (a fictional?) love plot involving the survivor rather than focusing on the crime that happened. Also it was an odd choice to hire actual Norwegians but have them speak English throughout it. 1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gershwin fan Posted November 2 Decision: Liquidation - The Russian serviceman watches his best friend get beheaded by the muslim fundamentalist during the Chechen wars. Two decades later, this terrorist is plotting to assassinate the Russian leader and he must come out of retirement to kill him for his nation and for his deceased friend, who still lives on in his memory. With the help of local Chechens and other operatives he will infiltrate the fundamentalist sect and do what he can to "liquidate" him. This is a cheesy action film but has some fun scenes. If you like the spy films and Daniel Craig type films, you may enjoy this. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted November 3 1. Transit Christian Petzold, Germany 2. Long Day's Journey into Night Bi Gan, China 3. Sunset Laszlo Nemes, Hungary 4. Burning Lee Chang-dong, South Korea 5. Happy as Lazzaro Alice Rohrwacher, Italy 6. The Image Book Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France 7. Ash is Purest White Jia Zhangke, China 8. Roma Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico 9. Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan 10. Mirai Mamoru Hosoda, Japan 11. 3 Faces Jafar Panahi, Iran 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoraSmith Posted November 3 I haven't seen the English spoken 22 July yet. Erik Poppe's film focuses entirely on the point of view of the victims and survivors. The shooter is only visible vaguely in a flash. My expectations of the English spoken film aren't as high, but it's on my watchlist. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 3 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 3 The 2018 BAFTA Best Picture and Best Foreign Film Winner … Roma (2018) Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico **** The 2018 BAFTA Foreign Film Award included these nominees … Capernaum (2018) Nadine Labaki, Lebanon Cold War (2018) Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland Dogman (2018) Matteo Garrone, Italy Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted November 3 The winner of the 2018 European Film Awards Best Picture was … Cold War (2018) Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
