A Prophet sweeos the board at the French Film Awards

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over the weekend in France was the Cesar Awards one of the countries leading Film awards ceremonies. Like in the Bafta's in UK there was one movie that swept the board and it was Jacques Audiard’s A PROPHET.
On the night the prison drama won a total of nine awards including best picture, director, original screenplay, cinematography also star of the movie Tahar Rahim picked up 2 for best actor and most promising actor awards. The movie was up for a amazing 13 awards losing only 4 of the awards which is an fantastic achievement for any movie of any size or country.
The 9 awards rounds off a wonderful 12 months for  Audiards movie when it comes to winning trophies ,having already scooping  the Grand Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, plusfor best director (Jacques Audiard), best actor and breakthrough actor (Tahar Rahim), best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup), Best Screenplay (Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit), best cinematography (Stephane Fontaine), best editing (Juliette Welfling), and best art direction (Michel Barthelemy). With the Oscars only 7 days away winning the best foreign movies would be the ultimate prize.

In the  Best  Foreign  Movie Award (Non-French movie) Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino won the award over Avatar, Milk, I Killed Your Mother, Wite Ribbon, SlumDog Millionaire and Town Called Panic. Here's the full winners list:

Best Film
“A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Director
Jacques Audiard, “A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Actor
Tahar Rahim, “A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Actress
Isabelle Adjani, “Skirt Day” (La journée de la jupe)
Best Supporting Actor
Niels Arestrup, “A Prophet” (Un prophete)
Best Supporting Actress
Emmanuelle Devos, “In the Beginning” (A l’origine)
Breakthrough Actor
Tahar Rahim, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Breakthrough Actress
Melanie Thierry, “One for the Road” (Le dernier pour la route)

Best First Film
“The French Kissers” (Le beaux gosses), Riad Sattouf, Anne Dominique Toussaint
Best Original Screenplay
“A Prophet” (Un Prophete), written by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Mademoiselle Chambon”, written by Stephane Brize & Florence Vignon,
Best Foreign Film
“Gran Torino,” directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary
“Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno,” directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea
Best Original Score
Armand Amar, “The Concert” (Le Concert)
Best Cinematography
Stephane Fontaine, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Best Editing
Juliette Welfling, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Best Art Direction
Michel Barthelemy, “A Prophet” (Un Prophete)
Best Costume Design
Catherine Leterrier, “Coco Before Chanel” (Coco avant Chanel)
Best Sound
“The Concert” (Le Concert)
Best Short Film
“C’est gratuit pour les filles,” directed by Claire Burger & Marie Amachoukeli

Blog Update

hello all and once again many thanks for all your support for my blog. I know there's been certain things taking a little longer than expected like the menu and the blogs other pages, I wont bore you with excuses but apoligies for taking forever. I thought I would let you know that today and this week I will be working on those pages and hopefully this time next week they will look a lot better than before. I am also considering rechanging the look of this blog again maybe in line with the other pages as I had add the pages in manually usung outside free webhost, but ill let you know later. So check out the other pages other the next week or two.
Well today is the end of the glasgow international film festival with the world premiere of LEGACY a indie thriller starring The Wire star Idris Elba as an ex black-ops soldier returning home full of redemption of a botched up operation in eastern europe and finds himself stuck in a rundown Brooklyn motel. Funnily enough the movie was mostly shot in Glasgow, Scotland simply due to the movies studio been based there, I was unable to get a press pass for the premiere, though ill try see if I can get a screener and review it. The movie was directed by nigerian born Londoner Thomas Ikimi and I this years festival has been an overall sucess. In its 6th year its sales figures have went from 6,000 to over 25,000 which is absolutely fantastic as this festival is not regarded as one of the big ones though give it a few years and the festival will breathing dow the neck of its neighbouring city (only 36 miles away) Edinburgh which is regarded as a big festival.
Overall ive been able to see some great movies on the screen or through screeners and i've been able to see scottish premiere of Gentleman's bronco, heartless also Until The Light Takes us, Kakera, Evagellion 1.0, Frozen (european premiere) Whip it, Bad Lieutenant which will be reviewed over the next week or two and you'll the reviews here and on the peoplesmovies blog.

Indie Hit Thriller DON MCKAY gets trailer

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Last years Tribeca Film Festival there was an hit and that was the indie thriller DON MCKAY. The movie stars
Thomas Haden Church a high school janitor who returns home 25 years later after receiving a letter from ex-girlfriend Elisabeth Shue stating she is dying. When he returns everything isn't what it seems and gets more than he bargains for.
In the USA the movie possinly will be called The Moment Of Truth but whatever its called its an debut release Jake Goldberger an darkly comic affair which will be released in April by Image Entertainment. As for any chance of an release in UK & Ireland there's no information but a trailer is now here and you can watch it below.