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  • Venezuela-Mexican film gets Golden Lion at Venice International Film Fest

    Venezuela-Mexican film gets Golden Lion at Venice International Film Fest

    NEW DELHI: The Venezuela-Mexican coproduction From Afar by Lorenzo Vigas has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, which is one of the oldest film festivals in the world.

     

    The Jury chaired by Alfonso Cuarón and comprising Elizabeth Banks, Emmanuel Carr?re, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Diane Kruger, Francesco Munzi, Pawel Pawlikowski and Lynne Ramsey viewed all 21 films in competition.

     

    The Festival, which was held from 2 – 12 September, had Alberto Barbera as its director and was organised by the Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta.

     

    Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement went to Bertrand Tavernier. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory went to Brian De Palma; Persol Tribute Visionary Talent Award to Jonathan Demme and L’oréal Paris per il Cinema Award to Valentina Corti.

     

    The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Pablo Trapero for the film El Clan (Argentina, Spain). The Grand Jury Prize was given to Anomalisa by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson (US). 

     

    The Best Actress award went to Valeria Golino in the film Per Amor Vostro by Giuseppe Gaudino (Italy) and best actor to Fabrice Luchini in the film L’Hermine by Christian Vincent (France) 

     

    The Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor went to Abraham Attah in the film Beasts Of No Nation by Cary Joji Fukunaga (US)  and Best Screenplay was won by Christian Vincent for the film L’Hermine by Christian Vincent  (France) 

     

    The Special Jury Prize was given to Frenzy by Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar), while the Lion Of The Future award went to the debut film The Childhood Of A Leader by Brady Corbet (United Kingdom, Hungary). It also got a prize of $100,000 donated by Filmauro di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis to be divided equally between director and producer.  

     

    The Orizzonti Jury of the Festival went to Free In Deed by Jake Mahaffy (US, New Zealand) for best film, for Best Director to Brady Corbet for The Childhood Of A Leader  (United Kingdom, Hungary), the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize was given to Neon Bull by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, Uruguay, The Netherlands), the Special Orizzonti Award for Best Actor was given to Dominique Lebornein the film Temp?te by Samuel Collardey and the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film to Belladonna by Dubravka Turic (Croatia).

     

    The Venice Short Film Nomination for the European Film Awards 2015 was given to E.T.E.R.N.I.T. by Giovanni Aloi (France).

     

    The Venice Classic Awards went for best Documentary on Cinema to The 1000 Eyes Of Dr. Maddin by Yves Montmayeur (France); for Best Restored Film to Sal? O Le 120 Giornate Di Sodoma by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975, Italy, France).

  • Denzel Washington wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    Denzel Washington wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    NEW DELHI: Well-known actor Denzel Washington received the Donostia lifetime achievement award during the opening gala of the 62 San Sebastian Film Festival, which concluded on 30 September.

     

    Directed by Antoine Fuqua, The Equalizer, starring  Washington was chosen to open the San Sebastian Festival.

     

    Sixty-year old Washington, is an actor, film director, and film producer. He has received much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone. Washington is a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and was also a frequent collaborator of the late director Tony Scott.

     

    Washington has received two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award and two Academy Awards for Best during a career which began in 1974 and in which he has so far starred in about fifty films. 

     

    Also, Richard Linklater’s 12-year project Boyhood was chosen the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESC).

     

    This is the first time a film by Richard Linklater receives FIPRESCI’s Grand Prix, which has already gone to Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others, since its establishment in 1999.

  • Cannes Palme d’Or goes to Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan for feature and to Simón Mesa Soto for shorts

    Cannes Palme d’Or goes to Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan for feature and to Simón Mesa Soto for shorts

    NEW DELHI: Renowned Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan has won the Palme d’or for his film Winter Sleep on the conclusion of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.

     

    The award – to the best of the 18 in competition – was presented to him by the American actress Uma Thurman and the American director Quentin Tarantino. The Jury was presided over by Jane Campion.

     

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan said: “This is a huge surprise for me, I wasn’t expecting it. I don’t know what to say. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema, which is a happy coincidence. I would like to thank the Festival de Cannes for supporting this long project. Thank you to the Jury, to Thierry Frémaux and Gilles Jacob. I would like to dedicate this Palme d’or to the young people of Turkey and to those who lost their lives during the year. Thank you very much”. 

     

    The film also won the top award given by The FIPRESCI (International Association of film critics) jury headed by Esin Kücüktepepinar of Turkey.

     

    While Titli by Kanu Bahl from India was highly lauded, the film that was selected for Un Certain Regard and Gitanjali Rao’s 19-minute animated romance True Love Story in the Critics’ Week failed to make any mark. Behl was also a contender for the Camera d’Or, the award for feature directing debut.

     

    Sergio Leone’s Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) presented by Quentin Tarantino, was screened at the end of the ceremony.

     

    Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher received the Grand Prix award while the best Director Award went to Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher.

     

    The Jury Prize ex-aequo went to Mommy by Xavier Dolan (the youngest winner at 25) and Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to language) by the renowned Jean-Luc Godard.

     

    The best acting awards went to actress Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars by David Cronenberg and actor Timothy Spall in Mr Turner by Mike Leigh. Mr Turner also won the award of the Vulcan Award for Technical Artist of the Jury of the CST to Dick Pope, director of photography, for bringing to light the works of Turner.

     

    The Best Screenplay Award was awarded to Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan.

     

    The Palme d’Or for Short Films went to Leidi by Simon Mesa Soto.

     

    A Special Mention – Ex-aequo – was made of A?ssa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne and Ja Vi Elsker (Yes we love) by Hallvar Witzo.

     

    The Un Certain Regard Prize went to Fehér Isten by Kornél Mundruczó. FIPRESCI gave the Un Certain Regard award to Jauja by Lisandro Alonso.

     

    The Jury Prize went to Turist by Ruben Östlund while the Un Certain Regard Special Prize was awarded to The Salt of the Earth by the lauded Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.

     

    The Ensemble Prize was given to Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, and the film also received the Camera d’Or award in the Un Certain Regard, while the Best Actor Award went to David Gulpilil in Charlie’s Country by Rolf de Heer.

     

    In the Cinefondation category for student films, the first prize went to Skunk by Annie Silverstein from the Texas University at Austin in the United States, while the second prize went to Oh Lucy!  by Atsuko Hirayanagi of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore and the third prize was given jointly to Lievito Madre by Fulvio Risuleo of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy and The Bigger Picture by Daisy Jacobs of the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom.

     

    The Nespresso Grand Prize in the Critics’ Award category went to The Tribe by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, which also received the France 4 Visionary Award. It additionally got the Gan Foundation Support for Distribution.

     

    The SACD Award went to Hope by Boris Lojkine.

     

    A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano received the Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize for short film and the Canal+ Award for short film went to Crocodile by Gaëlle Denis.

     

    In the Directors’ Fortnight section, the Europa Cinema Label, the SACD Prize and the Art Cinema Award went to Love At First Fight (Les Combattants) by Thomas Cailley. The film also received the FIPRESCI award.

     

    The Illy prize for short film was given to Heartless (Sem Coraç?o) by Nara Normande and Ti?o.

     

    A special mention was made of It Can Pass through the Wall (Trece si Prin Perete) by Radu Jude.

     

    Ceylan’s film is a 210 minute morality tale about a former actor who runs a hotel in remote Anatolia. As winter approaches, he is alone with his young wife and her sister going through a divorce. The cold weather makes the hotel not only a shelter but a site where the three must confront their growing feelings of animosity.

     

    Mommy, like the films of Jean Luc Godard, has broken ground, and ironically Dolan shared the jury prize with the French New Wave director with the daring hand held camera and jump cuts. Godard’s film Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language) in the official competition uses colorized scenes and fragmentation in a rather well shaped non-linear narrative. Dolan’s “Mommy” represents a paradigm shift for cinematic language. Defying established aspect ratios, Dolan and his director of photography André Turpin used a perfectly square 1.1 instead of today’s widescreen formats. Mommy shot on 35mm explores futuristic Canada with new mental-health laws in this film about a mother with a violent son.