When I sat down on a Saturday morning to start this interview, I had spent a late night playing Halo Reach. My head was filled with the typical rumbustious music: the drums, guitars, male choir (was it Welsh?), the strings, all the rousing ‘call to the fight’ soundtrack that gets the emotions to lay down your digital life for the Usnc. But I needed to cast my mind back to an earlier game which for some, myself included, changed the rules of what makes a good game great. I’m talking about Mirror’s Edge.
As games go, it looked very different in visual treatment with big blue sky and deceptively simple bleached shading of buildings. We were in a city; a city that was a shining example of modernity in architecture. At the heart of the story was a female cop wronged by a corrupt regime, a sister of a girl called Faith,...
As games go, it looked very different in visual treatment with big blue sky and deceptively simple bleached shading of buildings. We were in a city; a city that was a shining example of modernity in architecture. At the heart of the story was a female cop wronged by a corrupt regime, a sister of a girl called Faith,...
- 2/11/2011
- Shadowlocked
Stockholm, Sweden -- Sundance faves "Sin Nombre" and "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" scooped the bulk of awards at the 20th Stockholm Film Festival, which wrapped up Sunday.
Mo'Nique won best actress for her powerful turn as an abusive mother in Lee Daniels' "Precious," a performance that has already put the actress on many handicappers' Oscar shortlist.
Cary Fukunaga's "Sin Nombre" picked up three of Stockholm's silver horse trophies: best actor for star Edgar Flores, best first feature film and the Fipresci International Film Critics Prize for best film.
"Now my professors will have to give me a good grade," Fukunaga joked, a reference to the fact that the feature, a story of Honduran immigrants trying to reach the U.S., was his film school graduating thesis.
But the 2009 Golden Horse for best feature film went to "Dogtooth," a surreal look at a dysfunctional family from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Mo'Nique won best actress for her powerful turn as an abusive mother in Lee Daniels' "Precious," a performance that has already put the actress on many handicappers' Oscar shortlist.
Cary Fukunaga's "Sin Nombre" picked up three of Stockholm's silver horse trophies: best actor for star Edgar Flores, best first feature film and the Fipresci International Film Critics Prize for best film.
"Now my professors will have to give me a good grade," Fukunaga joked, a reference to the fact that the feature, a story of Honduran immigrants trying to reach the U.S., was his film school graduating thesis.
But the 2009 Golden Horse for best feature film went to "Dogtooth," a surreal look at a dysfunctional family from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos.
- 11/29/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2009 Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2009 Stockholm Film Festival: Nov. 18-29, 2009 2009 Stockholm Film Festival Award winners Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos Bronze Horse Awards Best Film: Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos Best First Feature: Sin Nombre by Cory Juji Fukanaga Best Actress Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Best Actor Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre Best Screenplay Eran Creevy for Shifty Best Cinematography Christophe Beaucarne for Mr. Nobody Best Music Krister Linder for Metropia Best Short Film: Logorama by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 Susan Sarandon Stockholm Visionary Award Luc Besson L’Oréal Paris Rising Star 2009 Anastasios Soulis Fipresci Jury Prize: Sin Nombre by Cary Joji Fukanaga Honorary Mention: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire [...]...
- 11/29/2009
- by Massimo David
- Alt Film Guide
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