Archive for the ‘award’ Tag

• March 19, 2012 Film review: Footnote posted in Film reviews tagged 2011, a separation, Alisa Rosen, Alma Zak, Amit Poznansky, award, best, best screenplay, cannes, Daniel Markovich, david ashley, David Mandil, Einat Glaser Zarhin, film, footnote, Hearat Shulayim, in competition, israel, israeli, Joseph Cedar, Leon Edery, Lior Ashkenazi, Micah Lewesohn, Moshe Edery, movie, Movie Plus, Nevo Kimchi, Prix du scénario, review, Shlomo Bar Aba, Sony Pictures Classics, United King Films, Westend Films, winner, won, Yaron Scharf, Yuval Scharf
• February 26, 2012 2012 Oscars posted in Criticism tagged 2012, a separation, academy, academy awards, academy awards 2012, actor, actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, actress, actress in a leading role, actress in a supporting role, adapted, albert nobbs, alberto iglesias, alexander payne, animated, animated feature film, anne-sophie bion, anonymous, art direction, Asghar Farhadi, ashley, award, awards, Bérénice Bejo, beginners, best, best actor, best actress, best director, best foreign feature, best original screenplay, best picture, blog, blogging, brad pitt, bridesmaids, Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, bullhead, by, chicago, chico & rita, christopher plummer, christopher tellefsen, cinematography, costume design, critic, david, Demián Bichir, directing, director, documentary, drive, extremely loud & incredibly close, fassbender, feature, film, film editing, filmmaker, films, footnote, gary oldman, george clooney, glenn close, howard shore, hugo, in darkness, j.c. chandor, jane eyre, jean dujardin, jessica chastain, joe berlinger, John Logan, John Williams, leading role, live, live action, live-blogging, liveblogging, makeup, margin call, martin scorsese, meryl streep, michael, michael fassbender, midnight in paris, moneyball, movie, movies, my week with marilyn, nick nolte, Octavia Spencer, original, original score, original song, oscar, oscars, picture, rango, real in rio, real steel, reporting, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, saving face, score, screenplay, short, short film, song, sound editing, sound mixing, Steven Zaillian, supporting, supporting actor, supporting actress, supporting role, swinton, terrence malick, the artist, the descendants, the descendents, the help, the tree of life, undefeated, w.e., woody allen, writer, writing
• January 27, 2012 Film review: Albert Nobbs posted in Film reviews tagged 1800s, 1890s, 2011, 2012, Aaron Johnson, acting, actress, actress in a leading role, adaptation, adapted, Alan Moloney, albert, albert nobbs, as, as a man, as man, ashley, award, awards, baby, based on, based on George Moore's novella, best actress, blog, Bonnie Curtis, Brendan Gleeson Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brian Byrne, butler, butlers, child, close, critic, david, david ashley, dress, dressed, dublin, dyke, faking, fooling, Gabriella Prekop, gay, gays, george moore, glenn, glenn close, hotel, ireland, irish, Istvan Szabo (story), Janet McTeer, John Banville, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Julie Lynn, leading role, lesbian, lesbians, love, lovers, lynn johnston, maid, makeup, martial corneville, matthew w. mungle, mia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael McDonough, Mockingbird Pictures, nobbs, nom, nominated, nomination, nominee, novella, oscar, oscars, Parallel Films Productions, pregnant, pretending, review, reviewed, reviewer, Roadside Attractions, rodrigo garcia, screened, screening, servant, servants, short story, Steven Weisberg, supporting, supporting actress, Trillium, valet, valets, woman dressed as man
• September 26, 2011 Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, adaptation, adapted, archery, artificial eye, artina films, ashley gerasimovich, atlantic swiss productions, award, best, bob salerno, book, british, cannes, cannes 2011, cannes film festival, damien, david ashley, demon seed, disturbed, disturbing, evil, ezra miller, film, hellspawn, jasper newell, jennifer fox, joe bini, john c. reilly, jonny greenwood, lionel shriver, luc roeg, lynne ramsay, massacre, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, morvern callar, mother, motherhood, movie, murder, Oscilloscope, psychopath, review, reviewed, rocky duer, rory stewart kinnear, school, school shooting, screened, screening, seamus mcgarvey, shooting, sociopath, son, steven soderbergh, students, terror, tilda swinton, unbalanced, united kingdom, written by, year
• April 20, 2011 Film review: In a Better World posted in Film reviews tagged 2010, academy, academy award, american beauty, Anders Thomas Jensen, ashley, award, best, best foreign film, best foreign language film, blog, critic, danish, david, david ashley, denmark, film, foreign, foreign language, in a better world, Johan Söderqvist, language, lars von trier, Markus Rygaard, Mikael Persbrandt, moral, morality, morals, Morten Egholm, Morten Søborg, movie, Nordisk Film, oscar, oscars, Pernille Bech Christensen, review, reviewed, screen, screened, screening, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Susanne bier, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, violence, William Jøhnk Nielsen, winner, world, written by, written by David Ashley, zentropa
• March 10, 2011 Film review: Of Gods and Men posted in Film reviews tagged 1991, 1996, 2010, 2011, 2nd, acceptance, algeria, algerian, algerian civil war, armada films, armed islamic group, ascetic, ascetics, award, awarded, awards, beheaded, beheading, best, best film, brotherhood, by, cannes, caroline champetier, Césars, cesar, chanting, church, cinematography, compassion, david ashley, des hommes et des dieux, etienne comar, film, film festival, FIS, foreign, france, fraternity, french, GIA, Goran Kostić, grand prix, hymn, hymns, islam, islamic, Islamic salvation front, islamist, Jacques Herlin, Jean-Marie Frin, killed, lambert wilson, Loïc Pichon, marie-julie mailee, mars distribution, michael lonsdale, monk, monks, movie, murdered, national liberation front, of gods and men, Olivier Rabourdin, Pascal Caucheteux, Philippe Laudenbach, picture, psalms, religious, review, Sabrina Ouazani, sacrificed, stay, subtitled, supporting actor, terror, terrorism, terrorist, tolerance, trappist, why not productions, won, written, xavier beauvois, Xavier Maly
• February 20, 2011 2011 Oscars posted in Criticism tagged 127 hours, 2010, 2011, aaron sorkin, academy, achievement, action, actor, actress, adapted, Alejandro González Iñárritu, amy adams, andrew stanton, animal kingdom, animated, anne hathaway, anne rosellini, annette bening, another year, art, art direction, award, awards, ballot, biutiful, black swan, blue valentine, ceremony, chris sanders, christian bale, christopher nolan, coen bros, coen brothers, colin firth, danny boyle, danny cohen, darren aronofsky, david ashley, david fincher, david o. russell, david seidler, dean deblois, debra granik, directing, directly, editing, effects, eric johnson, ethan coen, film, films, geoffrey rush, hailee steinfeld, helena bonham carter, hollywood, how to train your dragon, inception, jacki weaver, james franco, javier bardem, jeff bridges, jeff cronenweth, jennifer lawrence, jeremy renner, jesse eisenberg, joel coen, john hawkes, john lasseter, lee unkrich, lisa cholodenko, live, mark ruffalo, matthew liatique, melissa leo, michael arndt, michelle williams, mike leigh, movie, movies, natalie portman, nicole kidman, no country for old men, nominee, original, oscar, paul tamasy, performance, rabbit hole, roger deakins, scott silver, screenplay, short, simon beaufoy, song, stuart blumberg, supporting, sylvain chomet, technical, technicians, the fighter, the illusionist, the kids are all right, the king's speech, the social network, the town, tom hooper, toy story 3, true grit, visual, wally pfister, winter's bone, writing, written