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France s Critics Union handed out its prizes for 2008 on Monday night with top honours in Paris going to Agnes Varda s Les Plages D Agnes as the best French film while Paul Thomas Anderson s There Will Be Blood took the best foreign film award. The Critics group is also the organization that runs Critics Week at Cannes. Accepting the prize for Les Plages D Agnes, 80-year-old Varda commented, This is, in a way, my final film. In her feature directing debut, Sandrine Bonnaire won the prize for best first French film for Elle S Appelle Sabine - the film ran in Directors Fortnight in 2007. Singled out for a prize created last year and which sees critics award a notable French co-production was Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige stanley cup s Je Veux Voir. Literary prizes for books about film went to Lawrence Grobel s Al Pacino: Interviews With Lawrence Grobel and Bertrand Ta stanley cup vernier s expanded Amis Americains. stanley cup Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux, as Institut Lumiere director/publisher, and Tavernier accepted the award for the second time as the same book s first edition took the prize back in 1993. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Nmaq Mountain Men to kick off in BC
Source: Wiki CommonsMichael HanekeMultiple Palme dOr winner Michael Haneke is lining up his first TV series, partnering with FremantleMedias UFA Fiction on the 10-part drama Kelvins Book.The story takes place in a dystopian world set in the near future as a group of young people experience an emergency landing outside their home and are confronted with the actual face of their home country for the first time.Nico Hofmann and Benjamin Benedict will serve as executive producers on the series for UFA Fiction. After ten TV-movies and twelve stanley romania films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once, Haneke said.Haneke won consecutive Palme dOr awards for The White Ribbon and Amour, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film, and won two BAFTA awards. The White Ribbon earned two Oscar nods. Hanekes credits include Funny Games, The Piano Teach stanley cup er and Cach茅. No contemporary director has moved and inspired memore than Michael Haneke, UFA CEO Hofmann said. Kelvins Book is an extraordinarily rich, gripping and ambitious story. With contemporary themes and a reflection of the digital age that we live in, theres no better time for this project. Were privileged to be working with the esteemed Michael Haneke to bring his creative and unique vision to international audiences. Haneke joins FremantleMedias roster of creative partnerships, which includes Paulo Sorrentino Th stanley kubek e Young Pope , Neil Gaiman American Gods , and Neil Cross Hard Sun .TopicsEuropeTelevisionUnite |
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