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11 Films Vying for Best non-European film

Eleven films have been nominated for the Non-European Film 2005 - Prix Screen International, honoring the best non-European film of the year. The nominees this year are: "Batalla En El Cielo" (Battle in Heaven), by Carlos Reygadas (France/ Mexico/ Germany/ Belgium); "Be With Me", by Eric Khoo (Singapore); "Brokeback Mountain", by Ang Lee (USA); "Broken Flowers", by Jim Jarmusch (USA); "The Constant Gardener", by Fernando Meirelles (UK/ Germany/ Kenya); "Crash", by Paul Haggis (USA); "C.R.A.Z.Y.", by Jean-Marc Vallee (Canada); "Good Night, And Good Luck", by George Clooney (USA); "Look Both Ways", by Sarah Watt (Australia); "Sympathy For Lady ...

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Defying Categorizations Yet Again, Neil Jordan on "Breakfast on Pluto"

Here's a shape-shifting filmmaker almost impossible to pigeonhole. After some fifteen films, Irish-born Neil Jordan is still most closely linked with his Oscar-winning masterwork, "The Crying Game" (1992), which meshes mysterious sexuality with the Anglo-Irish "Troubles," and uncorks that twist that...

Onion Targets Bush's Weekly Radio Address With Usual Pinpoint Accuracy

"Lbs." Takes Top Prize at Avignon/New York Film Festival

"Lbs." has won the 2005 Avignon/New York Film Festival's best U.S. feature film prize at Sunday night's closing ceremonies held at the at Hunter College. "Lbs.," which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, is due for a March '06 theatrical release by New York-based indie distributor CAVU Pictures. At the ceremony, festival director Jerry Rudes presented the award to "Lbs." director Matthew Bonifacio and lead actor Carmine Famiglietti. In other festival prizes, Guy Jacques' "Ze Film" won best French feature film, while Louis-Martin Soucy's "Handicap" took best French short. Best U.S. short went to Jason Holzman's "The Method." The f...

Wedding Crashers: Eran Riklis' "Syrian Bride"

Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis recognizes the cinematic potential in an absurd political situation--it's easy for him, perhaps, because the country he lives in provides so much irrationality and insanity. His new downcast wedding film, "The Syrian Bride," takes place on the matrimonial day of Mona (C...

Ali G. Wins No Kazakh-Fans