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Post by formermi6agent on Jul 10, 2010 14:26:16 GMT -5
The Ghost Writer has got to get nominated by the Oscars, especially for Best Supporting Actor (Brosnan).
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Post by Ace on Jul 31, 2010 16:49:56 GMT -5
bluray.highdefdigest.com/3551/theghostwriter.htmlGreat review on the US release of the DVD. But horribly and mindbogglingly Summit has kept in the PG-13 dubbing while according to a poster on the IMDB board their Canadian counterpart E1 uses the original sans dubbing. I was planning to snap up a copy next week but now I'm wondering if I should order from Canada or the UK (though their release isn't until September). I want that cheeky f***
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Post by Lauryn on Jul 31, 2010 18:47:49 GMT -5
bluray.highdefdigest.com/3551/theghostwriter.htmlGreat review on the US release of the DVD. But horribly and mindbogglingly Summit has kept in the PG-13 dubbing while according to a poster on the IMDB board their Canadian counterpart E1 uses the original sans dubbing. I was planning to snap up a copy next week but now I'm wondering if I should order from Canada or the UK (though their release isn't until September). I want that cheeky f*** Not even for the DVD? They can’t be serious! What a botched and pointless decision. I just don’t get it, except to say that Summit continues to amaze with their cluelessness regarding this film and its audience. I’m waiting for my copy from amazon, and can’t play region free, so I guess I’m sunk. Should we all take to the streets? I WANT THAT CHEEKY F*** should fit on a t-shirt, LOL!
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Post by Ace on Aug 1, 2010 11:41:33 GMT -5
I considered using My instead of That and visualizing that on a T-Shirt makes me think I made the more prudent choice. It's just stupid but then Summit has PG-13 on the brain. Maybe the think Hurt Locker would have sold more if it wasn't an R (or about teenage vampires instead of war) and won't make that "mistake" with Ghost Writer. I looked at Amazon Canada - their regular DVD costs more than the Blue Ray (not a flipper like the US release) and add in the shipping costs it's probably cheaper to order from the UK!
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Post by Ace on Aug 12, 2010 18:35:46 GMT -5
Ghost Writer landed 4th in sales & 6th in Rentals Top 20 Sellers for the Week Ended 8/8/10 www.homemediamagazine.com/top-sellers/top-20-sellers-week-ended-8810This Week's Rank/ Last Week's Rank / Title / Street Date / Video Label/ Weeks on Chart / Box Office (millions) / Blu-ray Share/ Index1 New Kick-Ass 8/3/10 Lionsgate 1 $48.07 49% 100.00 2 New Diary of a Wimpy Kid 8/3/10 Fox 1 $63.98 12% 88.87 3 1 Clash of the Titans 7/27/10 Warner 2 $163.21 36% 52.91 4 New The Ghost Writer 8/3/10 Summit 1 $15.54 23% 16.335 8 Avatar 4/22/10 Fox 16 $749.61 42% 11.09 6 New Heroes: Season 4 8/3/10 Universal 1 NTV 18% 10.18 7 9 Hot Tub Time Machine 6/29/10 Fox/MGM 6 $50.29 40% 9.48 8 2 Batman: Under the Red Hood 7/27/10 Warner 2 DTV 24% 9.33 9 3 Repo Men 7/27/10 Universal 2 $13.79 26% 9.08 10 6 Percy Jackson 6/29/10 Fox 6 $88.77 35% 8.93Source: Nielsen VideoScan First Alert ================================= Top 50 Rentals for the Week Ended 8/8/10 www.homemediamagazine.com/top-renters/top-50-rentals-week-ended-8810This Week's Rank/ Last Week's Rank// Title Street Date/ Video Label/ Days Since Release /Box Office (millions) /Index1 New Kick-Ass 8/3/10 Lionsgate 5 $48.07 100.00 2 New Diary of a Wimpy Kid 8/3/10 Fox 5 $63.98 60.44 3 1 Clash of the Titans 7/27/10 Warner 12 $163.21 46.58 4 2 Cop Out 7/20/10 Warner 19 $44.88 37.14 5 3 Repo Men 7/27/10 Universal 12 $13.79 35.42 6 New The Ghost Writer 8/3/10 Summit 5 $15.54 34.587 4 The Bounty Hunter 7/13/10 Sony Pictures 26 $67.06 32.37 8 5 The Losers 7/20/10 Warner 19 $23.59 28.66 9 6 Brooklyn's Finest 7/6/10 Anchor Bay 33 $27.16 25.12 10 7 Our Family Wedding 7/13/10 Fox 26 $20.25 19.09 11 8 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 6/29/10 Fox 40 $88.77 17.5012 9 Hot Tub Time Machine 6/29/10 Fox/MGM 40 $50.29 16.20 13 New To Save a Life 8/3/10 Sony Pictures 5 $3.78 15.32 14 11 The Runaways 7/20/10 Sony Pictures 19 $3.57 14.40 15 10 Green Zone 6/22/10 Universal 47 $35.05 14.07 16 12 The Crazies 6/29/10 Anchor Bay 40 $39.12 11.85 17 New After.Life 8/3/10 Anchor Bay 5 $0.11 11.69 18 13 Greenberg 7/13/10 Focus 26 $4.23 11.43 19 14 The Book of Eli 6/15/10 Warner 54 $94.84 10.82 20 15 Remember Me 6/22/10 Summit 47 $19.07 10.7821 17 A Single Man 7/6/10 Sony Pictures 33 $9.18 9.56 22 16 Chloe 7/13/10 Sony Pictures 26 $3.08 9.54 23 18 She's Out of My League 6/22/10 Paramount 47 $31.63 8.51 24 19 When in Rome 6/15/10 Disney 54 $32.68 8.47 25 20 From Paris With Love 6/8/10 Lionsgate 61 $24.08 7.86 26 21 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 7/6/10 Music Box 33 $9.34 7.60 27 22 Shutter Island 6/8/10 Paramount 61 $128.01 7.32 28 24 The Greatest 7/13/10 National Entertainment 26 $0.11 7.22Source: Home Media Magazine Market Research
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Post by Ace on Sept 2, 2010 4:43:36 GMT -5
Surprisingly nominated since I thought films with the biggest box office would be up for People's Choice Awards but evidently the EFA's have more taste than the usual. europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/peopleschoiceaward/vote PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2010: POLLS ARE NOW OPEN Vote now for your favourite European film and win a trip to the European Film Awards! The EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, but also industry representatives and the international media, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for, the audience. This year’s voting starts on 1 September. Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER, Roberto Benigni’s LA VITA E BELLA, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AMÉLIE, Peter Cattaneo’s THE FULL MONTY and Wolfgang Becker’s GOOD BYE, LENIN! Among this year’s ten nominees for the People’s Choice Award are comedy hits like the Italian family farce LOOSE CANNONS, the adaptation of the French children’s book classic LITTLE NICHOLAS and the super hero comedy KICK-ASS, as well as the second part of the Scandinavian box-office Millennium trilogy THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, Polanski's political thriller THE GHOST WRITER, the epic Italian period piece BAARÌA, Amenabàrs historical drama AGORA set in Ancient Egypt, the British coming-of-age drama AN EDUCATION, the philosophical time travel vision MR NOBODY and Akin’s delicious gastro comedy SOUL KITCHEN. EFA People’s Choice Award 2010 nominees AGORA by Alejandro Amenabár Spain, 126 min. BAARÌA By Giuseppe Tornatore Italy, 150 min. AN EDUCATION By Lone Scherfig UK, 100 min. THE GHOST WRITER By Roman Polanski France, Germany, UK.128 min.THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE / FLICKAN SOM LEKTE MED ELDEN By Daniel Alfredson Sweden, Denmark, Germany, 129 min. KICK-ASS By Matthew Vaughn UK, 118 min. LITTLE NICHOLAS / LE PETIT NICOLAS By Laurent Tirard France, 88 min. LOOSE CANNONS / MINE VAGANTI By Ferzan Özpetek Italy, 110 min. MR NOBODY By Jaco Van Dormael Belgium, 138 min. SOUL KITCHEN By Fatih Akin Germany, 99 min. Find out more about this year’s nominees, cast your vote here until 31 October and win a chance to attend the 23rd European Film Awards on Saturday, 4 December 2010, in the Estonian capital Tallin where the People’s Choice Award will be announced in the ceremony with the European Film Awards in all the other categories.
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Post by Ace on Sept 2, 2010 18:33:06 GMT -5
California Literary Review: The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Unleashed!!!September 2nd, 2010 at 5:41 pm by William Bibbiani Well, here we are… 3/4’s of the way through the year and the Academy Award nominees are almost completely up in the air. Sure, the major nominees are usually held off until the last few months, but with ten Best Picture nominations up for grabs you’d think there would have been a greater effort to find cream in the crop. Inception seems like a lock for Best Picture, as does Toy Story 3 and maybe a few acting nominations for Winter’s Bone, but seriously… it’s looking grim. So while we have Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, The Coen Brothers and more coming up in the final stretch, we here at The California Literary Review thought we’d take this opportunity to promote a few potential nominees we don’t want to get lost in the shuffle. From gentle reminders of critically-acclaimed films to unlikely standouts, these picks are all worthy of Oscar Buzz. So start buzzing, hmm? WILLIAM's PICKS BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Pierce Brosnan, The Ghost Writer Hey, has anyone heard of this Roman Polanski guy? You have? And you know all about the bulls*** he pulled a few decades ago? Great. Let’s move on. Early this year – so early the Academy could easily forget about it – Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer quietly infiltrated cinemas to rave reviews and audience indifference. It’s a slick production, and one of those rare thrillers that manages to engage without a single explosion or high speed car chase. In the film, Ewan McGregor plays a ghost writer hired to complete the memoirs of the former British Prime Minster after the original ghost writer dies under mysterious circumstances. Soon, McGregor finds himself embroiled in mystery, intrigue, seduction, and an Academy Award-worthy performance by Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang, the Prime Minister who may be much more (or much less) than he seems. The Ghost Writer may be an underdog in categories like Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay, but to date I’ve heard no buzz whatsoever arising from Pierce Brosnan’s exceptional portrayal of Lang. Brosnan plays off of his oft-used “suave” persona and Polanski cast him well: Take one look at this man and you can not only believe he’s a politician, but you also believe you could have voted for him. As Ewan McGregor learns more about Lang’s history and sordid present Brosnan’s performance never significantly changes; instead, it was layered enough in the first place to fit every interpretation of the character the audience can come up with, from sinister to pathetic, from a political mastermind to an average joe in tragically above his head. If you’re making a movie about writing a character’s biography, you’d better get one hell of an actor. Pierce Brosnan may not have been everyone’s first choice in the “great actor” category, but this year he earned his place on that list in The Ghost Writer. Brosnan doesn’t get many of the showstopping scenes other Academy Award-winning performances boast – he doesn’t get to belt “I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” or drink anyone’s milkshake – but that makes his work in The Ghost Writer all the more impressive, and all the easier to overlook. Without a performance as strong as Brosnan’s The Ghost Writer wouldn’t have held up to any kind of scrutiny, and it took a surprisingly deft hand from an often underrated actor to pull it off so effortlessly. So effortlessly, in fact, that it must have taken a lot of work. DAN’S PICKS: BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Roman Polanski and Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer Originally named for its parent novel, evidently changed so people would not expect the undead. Sometimes it’s best for filmmakers to play it simple. This year it’s been especially true. Quality at the movies has been hard to come by, and Inception notwithstanding, most of the really good work has come from fairly low-profile projects. With public opinion of the always controversial Roman Polanski at an all-time low, it is no surprise that his latest feature did not make much of a splash in America. However, he’s lost not one bit of his knack for drama and suspense. Fortunately, plenty of good actors are still willing to work with him (though you have to wonder which ones have refused outright). In this tense thriller about false memoirs, state secrets, and assorted intrigue, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, and Olivia Williams all circle one another with the paranoid ferocity of starving dogs. Kim Cattrall gets to flex some muscles beyond the reach of her her infamously oversexed TV persona, and Tom Wilkinson steals one of the film’s most uncomfortable scenes as sinister academic with more than a few things to hide. But an able cast and a skilled director only bring a picture half the way. There must be a script, and a good one. Polanski and novelist Robert Harris adapted the screenplay from Harris’s novel The Ghost. I enjoyed the twists and turns of this film so much that I went straight out to find and read the book. What we have here is a straight, faithful adaptation of an engaging and cleverly crafted story. It may not be a novel destined for greatness, but it is a page turner, and the film is the moving picture equivalent. Minor details were changed here and there, but the spirit and impact of the tale remain intact. Nothing fancy, just good execution. Enjoy it yourself if you have the chance.
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Post by Ace on Sept 6, 2010 8:35:23 GMT -5
FIPRESCI - The International Federation of Film Critics Grand Prix — Best Film of the YearRoman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is Best Film of the Year, according to the members of the International Federation of Film Critics — FIPRESCI who voted for the Grand Prix 2010. The 296 film critics from throughout the world that took part in the poll expressed their preference among the feature-length films premièred during the previous year (after July 1, 2009), according this distinct sign of critical acclaim to The Ghost Writer. Leading actress Olivia Williams will receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2010 on behalf of the film's team on Friday, September 17th, at the opening ceremony of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (www.sansebastianfestival.com), which hosts this special prize since its creation in 1999. Previous recipients of the Grand Prix, which distinguishes a film’s overall artistic quality, have been: Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother, 1999, and Volver, 2006), Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, 2000 and There Will Be Blood, 2008), Jafar Panahi (The Circle, 2001), Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past, 2002), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak, 2003), Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004), Kim Ki-Duk (Iron 3, 2005), Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 2007) and Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon). www.fipresci.org/The 20 titles that obtained the highest scores were: Place Film Points 1 The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski 219 2 A Serious Man, Ethan & Joel Coen 198 3 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul 176 4 Lourdes, Jessica Hausner 171 5 Lebanon, Samuel Maoz 159 6 Poetry, Lee Chang-dong 152 7 Another Year, Mike Leigh 148 8 Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods And Men), Xavier Beauvois 146 9 Bal (Honey), Semih Kaplanoglu 123 10 El secreto de sus ojos, Juan José Campanella 98 11 Avatar, James Cameron 96 12 White Material, Claire Denis 83 13 Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese 80 14 Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard 75 15 Copie conforme (Certified Copy), Abbas Kiarostami 73 16 Hadewijch, Bruno Dumont 63 17 Carlos, Olivier Assayas 55 18 Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson 51 19 Tournée, Mathieu Amalric 51 20 Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñarritu 50
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Post by Ace on Sept 6, 2010 8:39:20 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards/news/e3i70ba82a0840c6bbf96e8a61a0d2fc249San Sebastian fest to honor 'Ghost Writer' FIPRESCI best film award at the opening ceremony By Pamela Rolfe Sept 3, 2010 MADRID -- Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" will be honored with the FIPRESCI best film award at the opening ceremony and Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key" will close the Official Section of the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers announced Friday. In addition to "Sarah's Key," which will run out of competition, organizers have added Chang-dong Lee's "Poetry" and Richard J. Lewis' "Barney's Version" as the bookends for the Zabaltegi-Pearls showcase. Diego Luna will open the Latin Horizons section with his directorial debut "Abel." Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland will chair the New Directors jury. Directors Elisabet Cabeza and Albertina Carri, author Marc Levy and musician Fermin Muguruza make up the rest of the jury. The festival, which runs Sept. 17-25 in Spain's northern Basque region, has yet to announce the main competition's jury.
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Post by Ace on Oct 8, 2010 19:16:43 GMT -5
www.deadline.com/2010/10/oscar-contenders-part-3-long-distance-run/Oscar Contenders, Part 3: A Long Distance By PETE HAMMOND | Friday October 8, 2010 Previous installments of my 2010 Oscar contenders rundown have included Part 1 about Oscar race films that played the Big 3 Fall Festivals: Venice, Toronto, and Telluride. And then Part 2 about Oscar race films set for release in the final three months of the year that skipped those fests or simply weren’t ready in time. Now in Part 3, I'll look back at films from the first eight months of the year that have reason for awards hopes, and, in some cases, may have to struggle against the odds just to be remembered. If I left any film out, it was purely intentional. I am not listing pics that don’t have a rat's chance. Here they are, in order of release date. And, remember, these are just titles from the first 8 months of the year: THE GHOST WRITER (Summit - Feb 17) Roman Polanski earned strong reviews for this Hitchcock-style drama in which Ewan MacGregor ghostwrites the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister played by Pierce Brosnan. It has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 84% fresh and did well by indie film standards. Oscar Chance: Summit will have to step up to the plate in order to revive it. Insiders at the distrib have special hopes for a Brosnan supporting bid. ================================ I wonder if "special hopes" will be matched by any kind of ads/campaign and why they're also no gun ho on Olivia Williams especially since female categories have historically far less competition.
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Post by formermi6agent on Oct 8, 2010 22:38:05 GMT -5
Pierce deserves a movie that gets nominated by the Oscars.....something he doesn't have since 1998's The Quest For Camelot.
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Post by Ace on Oct 21, 2010 12:11:59 GMT -5
www.ifc.com/news/2010/10/2010-holiday-movie-guide-screenings.phpThe Aero TheatreThe Aero will also get in the thick of this year's Oscar race with in-person tributes to Robert Duvall (Oct. 26, with a double feature of "Get Low" and "Tomorrow"), Mark Ruffalo (Nov. 5, with "The Kids Are All Right" and his still-undistributed directorial debut "Sympathy for Delicious"), Pierce Brosnan (Nov. 20, with "The Ghost Writer" and "The Matador") and a special screening of "The Social Network" with Aaron Sorkin, among others to be announced on November 21st. They will also honor the late, great Arthur Penn on November 19th with two of his lesser seen films "Mickey One" and "Night Moves," and Sid & Marty Kroft with a screening of "Pufnstuf" (Nov. 20), followed by a discussion with "Attack of the Show"'s Olivia Munn. www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
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Post by sandy1 on Nov 4, 2010 22:46:48 GMT -5
www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-11-03-oscardontforget03_CV_N.htm#uslPageReturnIf PB is not nominated for Best Supporting Actor I'll consider him totally robbed! He's a terribly (and undeservingly) underrated actor. His turn as Julian in the Matador should have got him nominated. Granted, the roles that PB is best known for, Mr. Steele, Mr. Bond and Mr. Crown are variations of the sophisticated man in suit. But they're all totally DIFFERENT men. It takes a considerable skill as an actor to do that. It's high time for him to get the recognition that he deserves!
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Post by SecondWind on Nov 6, 2010 16:31:23 GMT -5
The Ghost Writer has been nominated in seven categories at the European Film Awards no nomination for Pierce, though... www.variety.com/article/VR1118027025?refCatId=19'Ghost Writer' tops EFA noms - Polanski, McGregor among seven nodsSeville-- Roman Polanski's political thriller "The Ghost Writer" leads the nominations for this year's European Film Awards -- Europe's equivalent of the Oscars -- with seven mentions. "Ghost Writer" was nominated for best pic, director, actor (Ewan McGregor), screenwriter (Polanski and Robert Harris), editor, production designer and composer. Pic turns on a succesful ghost-writer hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister. He uncovers secrets that put his own life in danger. The film earned the director nod at February's Berlin Festival. This year's EFA nominations present a balanced shortlist, with a lower presence of pics from Germany and France, countries which have dominated most recent editions. As usual, nominations underline deep contrasts in contempo European filmmaking, with a wide range of budgets from big European co-productions such as "Ghost Writer" to much lower-budget pics such as Israeli war drama "Lebanon." Samuel Maoz's "Lebanon," winner of the 2009 Venice Golden Lion, could be one of the biggest surprises at the EFA awards, nabbing five EFA noms for film, director and screenwriter (Maoz) plus d.p. and editor. Childhood drama "Honey," from Turkey's Semih Kaplanoglu, snagged film, director and d.p. It won Berlin's Golden Bear earlier this year. Two much higher-profile titles, Fatih Akin's "Soul Kitchen" and Xavier Beauvois' "Of Gods and Men," France's Oscar entry, will also contend for European film nod. Spain is mainly represented by Argentine Juan Jose Campanella's Oscar-winning romantic thriller "The Secret in Their Eyes," a Spanish co-production that is nominated for best pic, and Spanish 2009 B.O. sleeper "Cell 211," which earned noms for screenwriters Daniel Monzon and Jorge Guerricaechevarria and actor Luis Tosar. Tosar will compete with Jakob Cedergren ("Submarino"), Elio Germano ("Our Life"), Ewan McGregor and George Pistereanu ("If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle"). "The only work I have seen is McGregor's, but that's enough competition for me," Tosar said Saturday at the Seville European Film Festival, where the EFA noms were unveiled. "I'm thrilled just to participate in this great celebration of European cinema." The winners of the 23th European Film Awards will be announced Dec. 4 in Tallinn, Estonia....
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Post by formermi6agent on Nov 6, 2010 16:45:01 GMT -5
www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-11-03-oscardontforget03_CV_N.htm#uslPageReturnIf PB is not nominated for Best Supporting Actor I'll consider him totally robbed! He's a terribly (and undeservingly) underrated actor. His turn as Julian in the Matador should have got him nominated. Granted, the roles that PB is best known for, Mr. Steele, Mr. Bond and Mr. Crown are variations of the sophisticated man in suit. But they're all totally DIFFERENT men. It takes a considerable skill as an actor to do that. It's high time for him to get the recognition that he deserves! I too agree.
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Post by Ace on Nov 6, 2010 17:19:19 GMT -5
Alas, there aren't any Supporting Actor/Actress categories so no chance for Pierce or Olivia. I'm surprised it missed out on Cinematography. europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/nominations/filmsThe Ghost Writer leads EFA nominations6 November, 2010 | By Wendy Mitchell Roman Polanski’s drama has seven nominations include European Film and European Director; other leading nominees are Lebanon with five nods and Honey with three. Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer leads the nominees for the European Film Awards, with seven nominations. The film is nominated for European Film, European Director, European Actor (Ewan McGregor), European Screenwriter (Polanski with Robert Harris), European Editor (Herve de Luze), European Production Designer (Albrecht Konrad) and European Composer (Alexandre Desplat).
Other leading nominees are Lebanon with five nods and Honey with three. The other films nominated for European Film 2010 are: Semih Kaplanoglu’s Honey, Xavier Beauvois’ Of Gods and Men, Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon, Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret In Their Eyes, and Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen. Best director nominees are Polanski, Kaplanoglu, Maoz and Olivier Assayas for Carlos and Paolo Virzi for The First Beautiful Thing. The awards will be handed out in Dec 4 in Tallinn, Estonia. The nominees are: EUROPEAN FILM 2010BAL (Honey), Turkey/Germany, dir. Semih Kaplanoğlu DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (Of Gods and Men), France, dir. Xavier Beauvois THE GHOST WRITER, France/Germany/UK, dir. Roman PolanskiLEBANON, Israel/Germany/France, dir. Samuel Maoz EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS (The Secret in their Eyes), Spain/Argentina, dir. Juan José Campanella SOUL KITCHEN, Germany, dir. Fatih Akin EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2010Olivier Assayas for CARLOS Semih Kaplanoğlu for BAL (Honey) Samuel Maoz for LEBANON Roman Polanski for THE GHOST WRITERPaolo Virzi for LA PRIMA COSA BELLA (The First Beautiful Thing) EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2010Zrinka Cvitešić for NA PUTU (On the Path) Sibel Kekilli for DIE FREMDE (When We Leave) Lesley Manville for ANOTHER YEAR Sylvie Testud for LOURDES Lotte Verbeek for NOTHING PERSONAL EUROPEAN ACTOR 2010Jakob Cedergren for SUBMARINO Elio Germano for LA NOSTRA VITA (Our Life) Ewan McGregor for THE GHOST WRITERGeorge Pistereanu for EU CAND VREAU SA FLUIER, FLUIER (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) Luis Tosar for CELDA 211 (Cell 211) EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2010Jorge Guerricaechevarría & Daniel Monzón for CELDA 211 (Cell 211) Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for THE GHOST WRITERSamuel Maoz for LEBANON Radu Mihaileanu for LE CONCERT (The Concert) CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2010Giora Bejach for LEBANON Caroline Champetier for DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (Of Gods and Men) Pavel Kostomarov for Как я провел этим летом (How I Ended this Summer) Barış Özbiçer for BAL (Honey) EUROPEAN EDITOR 2010Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for CARLOS Arik Lahav-Leibovich for LEBANON Hervé de Luze for THE GHOST WRITEREUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2010Paola Bizzarri & Luis Ramirez for IO, DON GIOVANNI (I, Don Giovanni) Albrecht Konrad for THE GHOST WRITERMarkku Pätilä & Jaagup Roomet for PÜHA TÕNU KIUSAMINE (The Temptation of St. Tony) EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2010Ales Brezina for KAWASAKIHO RŮŽE (Kawasaki’s Rose) Pasquale Catalano for MINE VAGANTI (Loose Cannons) Alexandre Desplat for THE GHOST WRITERGary Yershon for ANOTHER YEAR
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Post by Ace on Nov 6, 2010 17:26:57 GMT -5
www.indiewire.com/article/2010/11/05/moma_picks_their_contenders_for_2010MoMA Picks Their Contenders for 2010By Nigel M. Smith (November 5, 2010) A slew of possible awards contenders, including Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech,” David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” and Darren Aronovsky’s “Black Swan,” make up The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) The Contenders 2010. An annual series dedicated to influential and innovative films released over the past twelve months, this year’s edition runs the gamut from major studio releases like “Network,” to smaller finds like Lixin Fan’s acclaimed documentary “Last Train Home.” The exhibition runs from November 11 to January 22, 2011, with media sponsorship provided by indieWIRE. The full screening schedule is listed below: Thursday, November 11 8:00pm, “The King’s Speech.” 2010. UK/Australia. Directed by Tom Hooper. 118 minutes. Q&A with Director Tom Hooper following the screening Friday, November 12 4:00pm, “The Red Chapel.” 2009. Denmark. Directed by Mads Brügger. 87 minutes. Sunday, November 14
3:00pm, “The Ghost Writer.” 2010. France/Germany/UK. Directed by Roman Polanski. 118 minutes5:30pm, “Inception.” 2010. USA/UK. Directed by Christopher Nolan. 148 minutes Monday, November 29 7:00pm, “I Am Love.” 2009. Italy. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. 120 min. Monday, December 13 8:00pm, “Henry of Navarre.” 2010. Germany/France/Czech Republic/Spain. Directed by Jo Baier. 155 min. Q&A with director Jo Baier following screening Tuesday, December 14 6:00pm, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.” 2010. USA. Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. 90 min. 7:00pm, “Black Swan.” 2010. USA. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. 103 min. 8:30pm, “The Social Network.” 2010. USA. Directed by David Fincher. 121 min. Monday, December 20 4:00pm, “A Film Unfinished.” 2010. Germany/Israel. Directed by Yael Hersonski. 88 min. Wednesday, December 29 4:00pm, “Waste Land.” 2010. Brazil/UK. Directed by Lucy Walker. Co-Directed by Karen Harley and João Jardim. 90 min. 7:00pm, “The Kids Are All Right.” 2010. USA. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko. 106 min. Thursday, December 30 4:00pm, “Winter’s Bone.” 2010. USA. Directed by Debra Granik. 100 min. Saturday, January 8 7:00pm, “Last Train Home.” 2009. Canada/China/UK. Directed by Lixin Fan. 85 min. Wednesday, January 19 8:00pm, “World on a Wire.” 1973. West Germany. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 205 min. Saturday, January 22 8:00pm, “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” 2010. USA/UK. Directed by Banksy. 90 min.
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Post by Ace on Nov 6, 2010 23:16:11 GMT -5
blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/11/06/oscar_watch_european_film_awards_boost_polanskis_ghost_writer/Oscar Watch: European Film Awards Boost Polanski’s Ghost Writer Thompson on HollywoodEvery bit of attention that makes Academy members stick a movie into their DVD player is a good thing. So Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer leading the European Film Awards with seven nominations (best film, director, screenplay, cinematography and actor Ewan McGregor) could boost an awards campaign. That is, if Summit wants to spend the money to mount one as they did last year with Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker. Well, they do, even though they released the well-reviewed $30-million Euro-funded The Ghost Writer last March to a modest $15.5 million gross (it did $47.7 million overseas). Why lavish spending on an Oscar campaign? Increased marketing and attention will boost DVD sales for Summit Homevideo. Summit is pushing the film for Globes and Oscars: they’re doing for your consideration ads, guild Q & As, the works. They’ve hired 42 West Oscar maven Cynthia Swartz to mastermind the push. They’ve already mailed DVDs for the Hollywood Foreign Press; AMPAS screeners go out soon. What are the film’s chances? McGregor doesn’t have much traction on best-actor charts, although it’s the best performance he’s given in years. Pierce Brosnan is also terrific in a supporting role. The movie is an impeccably mounted thriller with a tight screenplay by Robert Harris and Polanski, but that is a competitive category. While this movie is elevated by Polanski into being better than your average studio thriller, like Ben Affleck’s The Town, just because it is a well-made entertainment doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an Oscar contender. Polanski is inside the Academy’s Oscar club—in 2003 The Pianist won three Oscars, including best actor (Adrien Brody), best adapted screenplay (Ronald Harwood) and best director, even though the self-exiled filmmaker couldn’t attend. He earned much sympathy in Hollywood over the past year for his controversial September imprisonment and house arrest in Switzerland, from his 1977 L.A. arrest on a statutory rape charge. He was in set free in July when a Swiss judge refused to extradite him to the U.S. Marina Zenovich, who directed the Emmy-winning 2008 HBO doc Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, is filming a follow-up. Best Actress nominee Lesley Manville also gets a boost for Mike Leigh’s Another Year. Full nominations are listed on the jump; the awards show streams live December 4 from Tallinn, Estonia.
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Post by Ace on Nov 9, 2010 13:59:21 GMT -5
www.variety.com/article/VR1118026529Posted: Mon., Nov. 8, 2010 Variety: Polanski and Oscar: Is it personal? Will the Acad be receptive to the helmer's latest effort?By Robert Koehler Oscar has forgiven Roman Polanski before. But after his high-profile transnational court fight this year, will the Academy be as receptive to Polanski's latest effort? Few films have been completed when the filmmaker was under house arrest. But when Polanski was putting the final touches on his mordant and dark-hued film, "The Ghost Writer," loosely based on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to restore his tainted image while battling war crimes charges, Polanski was detained to a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland -- another bizarre turn in Polanski's epic legal battle to fight efforts to extradite him to Los Angeles court for conviction on charges of raping then 13-year-old Samantha Gailey. With time to spare and minimal distractions, "The Ghost Writer" post-production process and soundtrack was reportedly worked over to an unusual degree during Polanski's Gstaad confinement, and the results led to the director's best-reviewed film since his Oscar-winning "The Pianist." Following its well-received Berlin fest world premiere, Summit Entertainment opted to release the film stateside in February, a long stretch from the Oscar season wherein such a heady drama might find a natural home. Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips echoed much of the critical reception when he commented on how Polanski turns a conventional conspiracy thriller into a triumph of tone, ensemble playing and atmospheric menace. Despite star power including Pierce Brosnan in a remarkable performance as the politician Adam Lang and Ewan McGregor as the titular character who finds himself trapped in the prime minister's curiously sepulchral world -- not to mention the kind of weightiness involving the consequences of political corruption on the world stage that the Academy ostensibly admires -- "The Ghost Writer" earned a mere $15 million domestic and $44 million in theatrical. If Polanski's legal troubles weren't enough of a potential impediment to win over Academy support, the film's tepid business potentially weakens its position as a contender. "I don't see it winning any Oscars, frankly, based on its commercial performance," says Phillips. "Besides, its depiction of a certain continental depravity tends not to translate well on Academy Award night. I would hope I'm wrong, since the film is really superb in its creation of a sinister comic tone that you can find in almost all of Polanski's work, and which comes off particularly effective here." Of course, last year's best pic winner, "The Hurt Locker," was no B.O. hit either, leaving open the possibility that, in a less-than-stellar year for potential contenders, movies with more respect than dollars might be able to break through. Representatives from Summit would not comment on how the company is handling "The Ghost Writer" Oscar campaign in relation to Polanski's controversies, but confirmed that a campaign is underway, tied into the film's August DVD release. "We believe Roman Polanski is one of the world's great filmmakers," the company said in a statement, "and this highly acclaimed film is one of his best. We are proud of the accomplishments of the filmmakers and actors involved. It deserves to be considered."
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Post by Ace on Nov 9, 2010 14:01:10 GMT -5
oscar-watch.ew.com/2010/11/08/roman-polanski-dark-horse-best-director-contender/EW: Roman Polanski: Dark horse Best Director contender?by Dave Karger Over the weekend, the nominees for the European Film Awards were announced, and the film receiving the most nominations, in a surprise, was Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. Meanwhile, Mike Leigh’s highly-touted upcoming drama Another Year received only two nominations, while the acclaimed Italian film I Am Love (starring Tilda Swinton) was completely shut out. But it’s the seven nods for The Ghost Writer that are making me wonder if Polanski (who shocked many when he beat Gangs of New York‘s Martin Scorsese and Chicago‘s Rob Marshall for Best Director in 2003 for The Pianist) could be a dark horse contender this year as well. Oftentimes the directors branch does reserve one slot for a left-field, often non-American candidate (like Fernando Meirelles for City of God, or Mike Leigh for Vera Drake) whose film isn’t exactly a front-runner for Best Picture. This year’s there’s also Leigh and The Way Back‘s Peter Weir, but if the directors think outside the box, they could feasibly go for Polanski. While The Pianist was a December release, however, The Ghost Writer came out all the way back in March, so many voters may have forgotten about it already (if they even saw it in the first place). Awards DVDs will help the film’s case—but it remains to be seen if the Academy will want to open the Pandora’s box of recognizing perhaps today’s most controversial filmmaker yet again.
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