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Amanda Awards
Best Actor
An aging sailor retires to his wife in Oslo, just before the Nazis invade Norway. When the Norwegian Army crumbles quickly, the man takes it upon himself to organize a ragtag resistance group. A moving and acclaimed war story, and winner of the award for Best Film at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival&hellip&hellip…
American Cinema Editors
Eddie, Best Edited Documentary(Nominee)
From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer&hellip…
Arsenals International Film Festival
A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince, and a dragon. A Note From The Filmmaker: I had a tumultuous if not disastrous first marriage to a Russian. The relationship covered quite a bit of ground - from Moscow to Riga, from Novorossiysk to Kaliningrad to Tallinn etc. At one point, in a fit of exasperated intuition&hellip&hellip…
Australian Film Institute
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Australian director Rolf de Heer's bizarre parable of innocence and corruption, belief and redemption, paints a decidedly grim picture while allowing hints of optimistic humanism to&hellip…
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter&hellip…
Best Film not in the English Language(Nominee)
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a respectable violin making and repair business. One day a beautiful violinist named Camille (Gallic beauty Emmanuelle Beart) enters their shoppe and their lives, immediately striking up an affair with the outgoing&hellip…
Berlin International Film Festival
Best Documentary Film
Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here.
COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy during World&hellip…
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Documentary
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy&hellip…
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Grand Jury Prize
Best Actor
When the irresponsible Xu Fugui loses his family's fortune during a gambling spree, he causes his loved ones incredible hardship. Fugui's father dies from a heart attack upon hearing the news, and his pregnant wife abandons him. Unable to&hellip…
FIPRESCI Prize
Algiers, 1989. The working class neighborhood Bab el-Oued is still in shock after the bloody riots of October 1988. At night, young Boualem works in a bakery. By day, the amplified call to pray disturbs his sleep. In a fit of anger, he tears down the loudspeaker on his building's terrace and throws it into the sea&hellip…
Cinema Writers Circle Awards
CEC Award, Best Editing
Directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Jose Juan Bigas Luna, HUEVOS DE ORO (GOLDEN BALLS) stars Javier Bardem in his breakthrough role (for which he also received a Goya Award nomination). In this satire of Latin machismo and the excesses of the 1980s, Bardem plays Benito Gonzalez, who dreams of building&hellip…
Cleveland International Film Festival
Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here. COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy during World War II. Based on Allan Berube's&hellip&hellip…
Fantasporto: Porto International Film Festival
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
International Fantasy Film Award, Special Jury Award
Two works by Dutch filmmaker and film historian Peter Delpeut. LYRICAL NITRATE (1990) fashions an ode to silent cinema made entirely out of volatile nitrate stock images scored to period music for a poignant, nostalgic&hellip…
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Frameline: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Feature
A warm story follows sanitation worker/found-object collector Joey as he searches for his biological parents and works at maintaining a nurturing, monogamous relationship with his partner Mark, an HIV-positive artist. WORLD AND TIME ENOUGH won the Audience Award at the San Francisco International Lesbian&hellip…
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Golden Rooster Awards
Best Actor
Best Film
Best Screenplay
This intimate, hopeful drama concerns a young teacher who is determined to make a better life for her students. By remaining open to the individuals around her, she is able to realize her dreams, and establish a sense of optimism in a harsh, bitter world&hellip&hellip…
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Goya Awards
Best Lead Actor(Nominee)
Directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Jose Juan Bigas Luna, HUEVOS DE ORO (GOLDEN BALLS) stars Javier Bardem in his breakthrough role (for which he also received a Goya Award nomination). In this satire of Latin machismo and the excesses of the 1980s, Bardem plays Benito Gonzalez, who dreams of building&hellip…
Gramado Film Festival
Golden Kikito, Best Latin Film(Nominee)
Golden Kikito, Best Editing
Directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Jose Juan Bigas Luna, HUEVOS DE ORO (GOLDEN BALLS) stars Javier Bardem in his breakthrough role (for which he also received a Goya Award nomination). In this satire of Latin machismo and the excesses of the 1980s, Bardem&hellip…
Hong Kong Film Awards
Best Original Film Score(Nominee)
Best Action Choreography(Nominee)
Best Original Film Song
A bizarre, cartoonish actioner about a trio of beautiful, deadly woman warriors known as Wonderwoman, Thief Catcher, and Invisible Girl. These girls join forces against an ancient Ming Dynasty eunuch who is trying to resurrect China's&hellip…
Hundred Flowers Awards
Best Actor
Best Film
This intimate, hopeful drama concerns a young teacher who is determined to make a better life for her students. By remaining open to the individuals around her, she is able to realize her dreams, and establish a sense of optimism in a harsh, bitter world&hellip&hellip…
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Independent Spirit Awards
Best Foreign Film(Nominee)
Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter instead&hellip…
Best First Feature(Nominee)
Best Screenplay(Nominee)
An illegal immigrant waiting tables in a Chinese restaurant struggles to arrange a marriage with an American woman so that he can get his green card. He also tries in vain to maintain his cultural identity amid all the forces that urge him to assimilate. When he finally&hellip…
International Documentary Association
IDA Award, Feature Documentaries
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby&hellip…
Istanbul International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize
The second installment of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's historical trilogy (which also includes A CITY OF SADNESS and GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN), THE PUPPETMASTER is based on the life of famed Chinese puppet master Li Tien-Lu. Spanning the years 1909 to 1945 and covering major historical events in China's occupation by the Japanese&hellip…
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Crystal Globe(Nominee)
Special Prize of the Jury
Avant-garde animator Jan Svankmajer uses Claymation and live action to render a surrealistic, modern-day treatment of the Faust legend. This surreal take on Goethe's classic parable tells the story of the unwitting Faust, who agrees to surrender his soul to Satan if the cunning&hellip…
Locarno International Film Festival
The story of THE EMIGRANT is loosely based around the Biblical tale of Joseph. The central character of Ram is the Joseph-like figure, who casts himself out into the wilds of Egypt to study agriculture after tiring of his families incessant feuding. Travelling with his brothers, he is cruelly sold by them to the military who are taken&hellip&hellip…
London Critics Circle Film Awards
Foreign Language Film of the Year
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a respectable violin making and repair business. One day a beautiful violinist named Camille (Gallic beauty Emmanuelle Beart) enters their shoppe and their lives, immediately striking up an affair with the outgoing Maxime&hellip…
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy&hellip…
Maui Film Festival
Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's Scrubs) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional&hellip&hellip…
Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films
Silver Conch, Best Non-Fiction Film
A two-part documentary chronicling the development of noted dissident Noam Chomsky and his dissection of the media and its often deceptive role in modern culture. Features appearances by such journalists and critics as William F. Buckley, Jr., Bill Moyers, and Peter Jennings&hellip&hellip…
National Board of Review
Best Foreign Language Film
Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his&hellip…
Best Foreign Film(Nominee)
When the irresponsible Xu Fugui loses his family's fortune during a gambling spree, he causes his loved ones incredible hardship. Fugui's father dies from a heart attack upon hearing the news, and his pregnant wife abandons him. Unable to put bread on the table, even for himself, Fugui works as a street&hellip…
Best Documentary
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy&hellip…
National Film Preservation Board
National Film Registry
A Cajun boy living in the Marshlands of Petit Anse Bayou observes the growing industrialization of his state as he watches oil drillers at work in this production filmed entirely in Louisiana. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story&hellip&hellip…
National Film Registry
Don Siegel's cult masterpiece, interpreted as an allegory of both McCarthyism and Communism, is undoubtedly one of the screen's most disturbing evocations of paranoia. It stars Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Binnell, a physician whose traumatized arrival in the emergency room of a San Francisco hospital leads&hellip…
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy&hellip…
Ottawa International Animated Film Festival
A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince, and a dragon. A Note From The Filmmaker: I had a tumultuous if not disastrous first marriage to a Russian. The relationship covered quite a bit of ground - from Moscow to Riga, from Novorossiysk to Kaliningrad to Tallinn etc. At one point, in a fit of exasperated intuition&hellip&hellip…
Paris Biennal of Arab Cinema
IMA Grand Prize
Algiers, 1989. The working class neighborhood Bab el-Oued is still in shock after the bloody riots of October 1988. At night, young Boualem works in a bakery. By day, the amplified call to pray disturbs his sleep. In a fit of anger, he tears down the loudspeaker on his building's terrace and throws it into the&hellip…
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Jose Juan Bigas Luna, HUEVOS DE ORO (GOLDEN BALLS) stars Javier Bardem in his breakthrough role (for which he also received a Goya Award nomination). In this satire of Latin machismo and the excesses of the 1980s, Bardem plays Benito Gonzalez, who dreams of building a mighty skyscraper and thereby&hellip&hellip…
Santa Barbara Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
A group of six teenagers try to cope with the difficulties of adolescence, their sexual identities, homophobia, and the search for love. The strong, emotional performances by the principles succeed in playing against gay stereotypes while echoing universal themes&hellip&hellip…
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Saturn Awards
Best Genre Video Release(Nominee)
A mock black comic documentary that spoofs reality TV, and questions the media's role in perpetuating and abetting violence. A homicidal maniac, serial-killer, Ben Patard, is accompanied on his killing sprees by a film crew who document, then later participate in, even as they question, his activities&hellip&hellip…
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Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Director
Australian director Rolf de Heer's bizarre parable of innocence and corruption, belief and redemption, paints a decidedly grim picture while allowing hints of optimistic humanism to filter through. Bad Boy Bubby (Nicholas Hope) is a 35-year-old manchild, confined his whole life by his domineering&hellip…
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Documentary
An amazing documentary about an incredible woman, this film traces Leni Riefenstahl's life from her beginnings as a German action movie starlet through her career as film director on such Nazi epics as "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" and beyond. The 91-year-old subject, hailed as&hellip…
Sundance Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by&hellip…
Special Jury Recognition
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here.
COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's&hellip…
Toronto International Film Festival
Avant-garde animator Jan Svankmajer uses Claymation and live action to render a surrealistic, modern-day treatment of the Faust legend. This surreal take on Goethe's classic parable tells the story of the unwitting Faust, who agrees to surrender his soul to Satan if the cunning evil spirit can promise 24 years of epicurean life in return&hellip&hellip…
Two works by Dutch filmmaker and film historian Peter Delpeut. LYRICAL NITRATE (1990) fashions an ode to silent cinema made entirely out of volatile nitrate stock images scored to period music for a poignant, nostalgic look into the past. THE FORBIDDEN QUEST (1993) blends found footage of old silent films with archival photographs and&hellip&hellip…
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Inspired by the work and writings of outspoken gay artist David Wojnarowicz, this film dramatizes three periods in his life: abused childhood, New York street hustler, and adult artist on the road, creating a powerful look at growing up gay in America. Contains graphic depictions of domestic violence and gay sex&hellip&hellip…
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Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his daughters just want to go on with&hellip&hellip…
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb&hellip…
Sent to live with her grandparents in a quaint coastal Irish town, 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) is fascinated by the village's rich folk culture--especially the local myths about a half-human, half-seal creature known as a selkie. Fiona becomes convinced that her supposedly deceased little brother is living with the selkies, and&hellip&hellip…
Deven, a professor at a small college in India, joyfully learns that he will have the chance to interview his hero, the famous Urdu poet, Nur. When the two men finally meet, Deven is startled to find Nur wallowing in drunkenness and surrounded by losers, including his two nagging wives. Frustrated and depressed with his interviews -&hellip&hellip…
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Jianxin Huang's THE WOODEN MAN'S BRIDE is a fascinating Taiwanese drama exploring the constricting bonds of tradition and patriarchy in a remote region of northwest China during the 1920s. Kui (Shih Chang) is a young peasant hired to be part of a caravan escorting a beautiful bride, known only as Young Mistress (Lan Wang), through the&hellip&hellip…
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy Award Nominations: Best&hellip&hellip…
Turku International Women's Film Festival
A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince, and a dragon. A Note From The Filmmaker: I had a tumultuous if not disastrous first marriage to a Russian. The relationship covered quite a bit of ground - from Moscow to Riga, from Novorossiysk to Kaliningrad to Tallinn etc. At one point, in a fit of exasperated intuition&hellip&hellip…
Valladolid International Film Festival
Best Actress
This title is on moratorium and currently unavailable.
An eerie psychological drama based on the true story of two sisters, Christine and Lea, who were maids in a provincial French town in 1932 and gained fame when they brutally murdered their cruel employers.
Christine and Lea live and work in the house of Madame&hellip…
Vilnius International Women's Film Festival
A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince, and a dragon. A Note From The Filmmaker: I had a tumultuous if not disastrous first marriage to a Russian. The relationship covered quite a bit of ground - from Moscow to Riga, from Novorossiysk to Kaliningrad to Tallinn etc. At one point, in a fit of exasperated intuition&hellip&hellip…
Young Artist Awards
Best Actor(Nominee)
DIRECTOR APPROVED DEFINITIVE SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET.
Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end&hellip…
Zagreb International Animated Film Festival
A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince, and a dragon. A Note From The Filmmaker: I had a tumultuous if not disastrous first marriage to a Russian. The relationship covered quite a bit of ground - from Moscow to Riga, from Novorossiysk to Kaliningrad to Tallinn etc. At one point, in a fit of exasperated intuition&hellip&hellip…