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Oberhausen. The Chinese Jia Zhang-ke (with Cry Me a River) and the Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul (with A Letter to Uncle Boonmee) were the most prominent authors in competition, at the traditional German short film festival. |
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San Francisco. Everything Strange and New by Frazer Bradshaw, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize, is the work of a Bay Area-based director whose first feature dares to cut against the grain of American independent filmmaking. |
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Lisbon. IndieLisboa featured eleven films in the international competition and four in the national one. The section called "Independent Heroes" comprised retrospectives of two great European auteurs, Werner Herzog and Jacques Nolot. |
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Wiesbaden. The goEast Film Festival in the small German city became one of the most important showcases for films from the east in western Europe. An homage was dedicated to Russian filmmaker Kira Muratova. |
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Istanbul. The festival is always worth a visit: because of the city; because of Turkish cinema experiencing a particularly vivid period, and much improved compared to a few years ago; also because of interesting Turkish documentaries. |
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Lecce. The festival in the south of Italy serves as a platform for both new Italian and young European cinemas. Homages and retrospectives were dedicated to Margherita Buy, Ferzan Ozpetek, Raoul Bova and Carmelo Bene. |
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Buenos Aires. BAFICI is surely the premiere event for independent cinema in South America. The critics awarded a film fresh into what will be an extensive festival run, Maren Ade's seemingly simple tour-de-force Everyone Else (Alle Anderen). |
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Hong Kong. Among new Asian films, our jury chose Zou Peng's A Northern Chinese Girl, the deeply affecting story of a young woman struggling to make ends meet in the harsh landscape of a city wracked by economic turmoil. |
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Undercurrent #5 |
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John Ford, "The Quiet Man" (1952)
Maureen O'Hara: Mary Kate Danaher |
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Undercurrent #5. The fifth issue of Undercurrent, FIPRESCI's journal of film criticism, includes a special tribute to John Ford, with contributions from eighteen worldwide critics and scholars. Also featured are film, DVD, and book reviews; a report on the 10th Jeonju International Film Festival; and an interview with critic Gerald Peary about his new film on American film criticism. uc # 5
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Critics Prizes in Cannes |
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At the Cannes International Film Festival
(France, May 13-24, 2009) a jury of FIPRESCI presented three prizes.
— Prize to a film in competition: The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) by Michael Haneke (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, 2009).
— Prize to a film in the section "Un Certain Regard": Police, Adjective (Politist, Adjectiv) by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania, 2009).
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Prize to a film in the parallel sections Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week: Amreeka by Cherien Dabis (presented in the Directors' Fortnight) (USA, Canada, 2009).
Reports follow.. |
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