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...best effect. "Every step of the process is taken care of by the whole pool - it's quite a democratic process," says Chris Mercier, head of acquisition and distribution. The Indie Circle team bought the powerful Spanish domestic-violence drama Take My Eyes before it picked up seven Goya awards in February; the film starts its Europewide run in April, but has already taken in over €4 million in Spain. Indie Circle also bought Osama - the award-winning debut from Afghan director Siddiq Barmak, which has just been released to critical acclaim and grossed...
...can’t the Oscars be in the business of honoring quality and quality alone? This is an organization that never gave an Oscar to Richard Burton but gave two to Shelley Winters (zero would have been too many). It hasn’t gotten the Best Picture award right in over a decade. It’s seen fit to honor hacks and one-hit wonders galore, but has never gotten around to giving a nomination to Donald Sutherland. Ian Holm wasn’t nominated in for 1997’s The Sweet Hereafter, even though...
...Towers could easily apply to any of the first three films; The Lord of the Rings has officially replaced George Lucas’ space operas as the standard bearers for epic populist entertainment. These will remain important films 25 years from now, and to give the award to another film in 2003 will be forever remembered as one of the Academy’s biggest blunders. I agree that the Academy hasn’t properly identified the year’s best film since Schindler’s List, and nor will it this year (after all, City...
...prescient casting of Kurt Russell as team coach Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence; if the film had been released two months earlier, he could very well be garnering award attention. The film’s only crutch is its presentation of the hockey games, splattered onto the screen with so many close-ups and jump cuts as to make the games unintelligible...
...England String Ensemble performs an impressive array of pieces. Celebrate the allure of dance, the colors of flute, harp, percussion, piano and strings and the young award-winning stars of the future on Harvard’s campus. Concerto Competition Winners for both flute and strings will perform St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29. The world Premiere of “The Creation according to Orpheus” (2002) will be performed as well as Dvorak’s Waltz Op. 54, Piazzolla’s Four for Tango, and Skalkottas’ Five Greek Dances. A behind...