Sentences with phrase «italian films prize»

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Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most) foreign - language film — all five and a half hours and 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's prize.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

The style prize is awarded to a person who has promoted exchange between the Italian and international film industry.

He was responding to a question from an Italian journalist who observed that two of the three Italian films in Competition were in English, Paolo Sorrentino (whose The Great Beauty recently took best foreign language Oscar) is there with Youth, starring Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine, and Matteo Garrone (director of previous Cannes prize - winner Gomorrah) brings an adaptation of fantastic Neapolitan classics in Tale of Tales.

The opening of the catalogue essay on Hamilton's Turner prize work talks about Italian film director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini's «untimely death» in 1975, and a number of letters he published in the months before he was brutally murdered.

This year's stars include the Jeff Koons Coloring Book sculpture in the courtyard; Work No. 998, a stack of chairs by the Turner prize winner Martin Creed; and a sculpture by Richard Wilson inspired by the film The Italian Job, called Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea.

BLACK BOX is a collaboration organised by Edinburgh College of Art (eca) and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), consisting of four acclaimed film installations by internationally - acclaimed artists: Turner prize nominees Jane and Louise Wilson (1999); Isaac Julien (2001); Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli and US - based artist Malerie Marder.