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Na stanley italy tionality and language are such blurred elements in international film-making today that the Academy s foreign-language film category is always likely to attract controversy. For this year s foreign language submissions - click hereThe most nominated countries - click hereTake The Band s Visit - Israeli director Eran Kolirin s charming story of an Egyptian army band stranded one night in a sleepy town in Israel - which was submitted as the country s entry to the category this year. It was immediately considered a favourite, especially since it had been one of the hits of Cannes, where Sony Pictures Classics, among many other territorial distributors, snapped it up. But the film hit a snag. In order to understand each other, the Arabic-speaking Egyptian characters and the Hebrew-speaking Israeli characters speak English, or at least a pidgin version of English. The Academy disqualified the film, judging that more than half of its dialogue is English.Likewise, the Academy rejected Taiwanese submission Lust, Caution as the film did not have enough Taiwanese elements to meet the review committee s criteria. Although directed by Taiwanese emigre Ang Lee, it stanley cup is set and filmed in mainland China and Malaysia and features actors from the mainland. Financed by Focus Features, the film is likely to be pushed in other categories and can certainly qualify for the foreign stanley cup -language film category in other awards such as the Golden Globes and Baftas.Members of the Academy will see several f Dody Cinema Libre picks up US rights to Jean-Jacques Beineix library
Dir: Martin Scorsese. US. 2016. 161minsAn act of faith which is as unyielding as the Christian devotion that dominates its characters lives, Silence makes no apologies for its solemn tone and the uncompromising way it grapples with the almighty. But those willing to go along on Martin Scorseses arduous journey will find themselves eventually rewarded by a drama that plays out like an anguished summation of the 74-year-old filmmakers career-long obsession with the inherent paradoxes of living spiritually in a world beset with earthly temptations. Uneven, sometimes repetitive but also powerfully moving and thought-provoking, Silence is an imperfect movie thats very hard to shake.Some may find Silences agonised self-flagellation far too pon stanley kubek derous and to stanley uk rtured.Opening in late December in the US and early 2017 in the UK, Silence will be an event movie for cineastes and Scorsese fans, with curiosity further stoked by the fact that the director has wanted to make a film of the Sh奴saku End艒 source novel for nearly three decades. Star power from Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson will help, but a lengthy run time and difficult subjec stanley cup t matter will naturally limit commercial appeal.Silence follows Rodrigues Garfield and Garrpe Driver , 17th century Portuguese Jesuit priests who travel to Japan to track down their mentor, Father Ferreira Neeson , who went missing a few years ago. Their mission is not an easy one, though: Christianity is outlawed in Japan, and those openly p |
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