Brazil, Israel, and Mexico -- three countries that have yet to produce an Oscar Foreign Film champ despite a small handful or two of previous nominees -- have now joined the fast-growing list of Oscar's subtitled contenders.
The tally now stands at 35...42 films 44 films and 4 finalist lists!
Which means we've only got about 20 films left to hear about officially before the list is complete. October 1st is the deadline for submissions and in mid October Oscar will provide us with the official list which will usually contain a few surprises -- either a last minute film switcheroo, a disqualification, or a country that hadn't publicly announced suddenly surfacing on the list. Let's look at our new contenders and their countries nominee history after the jump.
Israel's New Contender: Fill The Void by Rama Burshtein which gives us an intimate look at the Hasidic community in Tel Aviv.
Israel's Nominee History...
The tally now stands at 35...42 films 44 films and 4 finalist lists!
Which means we've only got about 20 films left to hear about officially before the list is complete. October 1st is the deadline for submissions and in mid October Oscar will provide us with the official list which will usually contain a few surprises -- either a last minute film switcheroo, a disqualification, or a country that hadn't publicly announced suddenly surfacing on the list. Let's look at our new contenders and their countries nominee history after the jump.
Israel's New Contender: Fill The Void by Rama Burshtein which gives us an intimate look at the Hasidic community in Tel Aviv.
Israel's Nominee History...
- 9/21/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Oscar 2013: The Clown is Brazil’s submission Selton Mello’s The Clown / O Palhaço is Brazil’s entry for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Actor Mello’s second feature film as a director, following Merry Christmas / Feliz Natal (2008), The Clown apparently follows a similar path to that of Carlos Diegues’ road movie Bye Bye Brasil. (Photo: Teuda Bara [I'm assuming that's an homage to Theda Bara] and Selton Mello The Clown.) [See Portuguese-language trailer below.] In Mello’s comedy-drama released in Brazil in November 2011 (local gross $6.72m), father and son Valdemar (veteran Paulo José) and Benjamin (Mello), better known as the [...]...
- 9/20/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In what sounds like a post apocalyptic setting, Felipe Hirsch's and Daniela Thomas' meditation on love and loss looks like the sort of dreamy, arthouse film I go in for, especially since Variety's review says it leaves "narrative and character development by the wayside". Sunstroke is out of Brazil and recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Insolação tells stories of unrequited love. “Love and Loss. Loss, mostly,” says a character. In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover through buildings and endless flatland in search of the ever ellusive love. Based loosely on 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia—a distorted mirror-image of the soviet utopia— located in the heart of the Brazilian desert. Paulo José, the...
Insolação tells stories of unrequited love. “Love and Loss. Loss, mostly,” says a character. In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover through buildings and endless flatland in search of the ever ellusive love. Based loosely on 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia—a distorted mirror-image of the soviet utopia— located in the heart of the Brazilian desert. Paulo José, the...
- 10/7/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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