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8 September, 2008 Based on the shocking true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, ‘BALIBO’ stars LaPaglia as Australian television journalist Roger East, who takes an unofficial job as the head of the East Timor News Agency at the behest of young idealistic revolutionary José Ramos-Horta. While reporting on the bloody […]

26 June, 2008 By Wendy Mitchell in London Source: Screen Daily The cast features Anthony LaPaglia and Oscar Isaac. Robert Connolly directs from a script co-written with David Williamson. The story is based on true events during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. LaPaglia plays Australian journalist Roger East and Isaac plays young […]

8 September, 2008 Mila Kunis (‘Max Payne’, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshal’), Ben Affleck (‘State of Play’, ‘Armageddon’, ‘Hollywoodland’), Clifton Collins Jr. (‘Star Trek’, ‘Babel’, ‘Capote’), TJ Miller (‘Cloverfield’), Kristen Wiig (‘Knocked Up’, ‘Walk Hard’), Dustin Milligan (‘90210’), JK Simmons (‘Juno’, ‘Spiderman 1, 2 & 3’, ‘Burn After Reading’) and Dave Koechner (‘Anchorman’, ‘Thank You For Smoking’) […]

16 April, 2007 Pic stars Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn in the story of a young dotcom entrepreneur struggling to keep his head above water during the 2001 stock market collapse prior to the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11. “August” is being financed by Patrick Morris and Elisa Pugliese’s 57th […]

29 November, 2007 By Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles Source: Screen Daily As previously announced the festival will open on January 17 with Martin McDonagh’s feature directorial debut In Bruges starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Festival director Geoff Gilmore revealed the closing film will be CSNY Déjà Vu, which follows Crosby, Stills, […]

22 January, 2009 By Mike Goodridge in Los AngelesSource: Screen Daily But perhaps the favourite is still Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight in the domestic market), Danny Boyle’s Indian crowdpleaser which scored 10 nominations including picture, director and screenplay. The UK-originated film also won three nominations for Indian music superstar AR Rahman in original score and […]

23 February, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Daily The widely expected success eclipsed The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, which entered the night as the most nominated picture with 13 nods and left with a trio of prizes for art direction, visual effects and make-up.”When we started out we had no stars, no power or […]

23 February, 2009 Japan’s “Departures” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in one of the few surprises at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Either Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir” or France’s “The Class” had been widely expected to take the trophy. Also nommed were Germany’s “The Baader Meinhof Complex” and Austria’s “Revanche.” “Departures” (or “Okuribito”), directed […]

19 January, 2009 By Jeremy KaySource: Screen Gotz Spielmann’s Austrian foreign language Oscar submission Revanche was awarded the FIPRESCI prize for best foreign language film of the year as the The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival came to a close on January 19. Natar Ungalaaq received the FIPRESCI Award for best actor for […]