Not exact matches
This was something like a miracle: Haneke's gracious affability aside, his has always been, openly and decisively (he's quite literally said as much) an oppositional
cinema — often abrasive (his one noble failure, 1997's Funny Games, and its shot - for - shot English - language remake from 2008, being the prime specimens), always painstakingly conscientious and morally committed to disturb (all of his films from The Seventh Continent through The White Ribbon) art films that mean to engage and provoke the
audience, not please or reassure in a way that could ever be mistaken for
award - grubbing.
In 2005, Lindhardt took Danish
cinema audience and critics by storm in the lead role of ANGELS IN FAST MOTION, for which he received the Danish Robert / Academy
Award, Best Lead Role.
2006 Time Out New York Best Documentary The Radio Times Best Documentary 2007 Rose d'Or Festival, Best of 2007 and Best Arts Documentary (Switzerland) Los Angeles Film, Festival Best International Feature (USA) 2008 Atlanta Film Festival,
Audience Award (USA) Bergen International Film Festival,
Audience Award (Norway) Warsaw International Film Festival Best Documentary (Poland) Paris Cinema International Film Festival, Jury Prize and
Audience Award (France) Nashville Independent Film Festival Impact of Music
Award (USA) Sydney Film Festival,
Audience Award for Best Documentary (Australia) Los Angeles Film Festival, Humanitas
Award for Best Documentary (USA) Ghent Film Festival,
Audience Award (Belgium) The International Documentary
Awards, Alan Ett Best Music
Award (USA) The Festival D'Automne,
Audience Award (France) Les Rencontres Cinématographiques de Dijon,
Audience Award (France) 2009 Christopher
Awards, Christopher
Award for Film (USA) The Keswick Film Festival,
Audience Award (England) DVD Critics, Best Non-Fiction Title (USA) AG Kino - Gilde German Art House
Cinemas, Best Documentary (Germany)
The winners were announced this weekend for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and after 10 days of snow and
cinema the big winners of the fest included Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a cancer comedy - drama with Thomas Mann and Connie Britton, which won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic
Audience Award.
The festival will open with the acclaimed Pilgrim Hill, winner of the Bingham Ray New Talent
Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, which beautifully evokes a tale of tough rural life in North Kerry, and will provide
audiences throughout the county with unforgettable experiences in film, from unique musical accompaniments to an inflatable
cinema!
If Andrew Haigh, the director of Weekend, the earnest, prosaic, and mostly unsurprising British drama that won an Emerging Visions
Audience Award at South by Southwest last night, is considered a fresh new voice in
cinema, then what about Matt D'Elia, who shows more breathtaking audacity in his debut feature, American Animal, than Haigh shows in his Richard Linklater - ish romantic talkfest?