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filmexperience.blogspot.com - 9/17/2009

Foreign Film Oscar Submissions. The Story So Far

— filmexperience.blogspot.com — In roughly one month's time Oscar's sharpest double edged sword falls. That would be the announcement of... the official submission list for the Best Foreign Language Film competition. Why the double edge? On the one hand it's always a mouthwatering list ... (more) Foreign Film Oscar Submissions. The Story So Far

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Academy Awards

Gael Garcia Bernal

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indiewire.com - 9/24/2009

From Armenia to Venezuela: 28 Foreign Language Film Submissions (and counting)

— indiewire.com — The full submission list isn’t released until October, but twenty-eight countries have now officially submitted films to... the 82nd Annual Academy Awards’ foreign-language category, and indieWIRE has decided to start keeping tabs. Listed below is an ... (more) From Armenia to Venezuela: 28 Foreign Language Film ...

Academy Awards

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incontention.com - 9/15/2009

Chile joins foreign-language fray

— incontention.com — Chile is the latest country to formally join the Best Foreign Language Film race, having selected true-life... political drama “Dawson, Island 10″ as their official submission. To go by the trailer , the film, which tells the story of a ... (more) Chile joins foreign-language fray

Comedy

The Fray

Wayne'S World

Rosario Dawson

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Foreign Film Oscar Submissions. The Story So Far
Film Experience Blog — In roughly one month's time Oscar's sharpest double edged sword falls. That would be the announcement of the official submission list for the Best Foreign Language Film competition. Why the double edge? On the one hand it's always a mouthwatering list of sixty-plus film titles from newbie directors and masters alike, starring actors from all over the globe and covering virtually every film genre. They're not all masterpieces but there's true gold in there. On the other hand, the majority of these possibly awesome titles will remain unavailable to all but the most dedicated and ...

Sprecken Zie Link?
Film Experience Blog — ... on the web so maybe you're interested, too? I've become agnostic on Norton over the years but sure did think he was back in form for The Painted Veil Finally, there's yet more updates and posters added to the Oscar Foreign Language Film pages over at the original site... Afghanistan to France Georgia to Morocco The Netherlands to Venezuela Current PredictionsI've also done a little bit of restructuring and digging to ...

Foreign film news and notes — 29 films so far
In Contention — Guy is so much better at keeping track of this stuff than I am. But some things of note recently: Serbia has switched it’s entrant from “Here and There” to “Sveti Georgije ubiva azdahu” (“St. George Shoots the Dragon”). “Ded na Si Lolo” will represent the Philippines and Canada has selected “I Killed My Mother.” indieWIRE is keeping a nice list of films going, but generally speaking, no one does this category better than Nat Rogers at The Film Experience. One newsy-ish item: There is talk of “London River” potentially being the Algerian entry. More than 50% ...

Foreign Film Hoopla, 60+ Oscar Submissions
Film Experience Blog — ... and Romania's Police, Adjective. You can argue that some of these pictures are anti-Bait... but let's be fair: the Academy can and does surprise. Sometimes they go against their grain and embrace the violently confrontational (Mexico's Amores Perros), the unusually risque (Austria's Revanche) or the utterly alien (Finland's The Man Without a Past). Anything can happen even if Anything usually doesn't. the submission charts * ...