2019 Oscars: A Look at African and Middle Eastern Films in This Year’s Foreign Language Oscar Race
Our weekly Foreign Language Oscar race analysis pieces continue after a short hiatus. This week, we take a look at a region that rarely gets... Read More
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2019 Oscars: The State of the Foreign Language Film Oscar Race – Part 2
Venice and Telluride have just begun. Toronto has announced its lineup and starts in less than a week. That means another installment of AwardsWatch’s The... Read More
Belarus’s Crystal Swan, the first Foreign Language Film submission for the 2019 Oscars This is the official submission list for countries entering the Foreign Language... Read More
Cannes Review: A.B. Shawky’s gripping and emotional debut ‘Yomeddine’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rarely do debut features play in competition at Cannes. In fact, of the debut features that played in the festival’s most... Read More
2018 Cannes at a Glance
The 2018 Cannes Film Festival is this week and this page will be your updated Cannes at a Glance featuring links to reviews from myself... Read More
2019 Oscars: From Spain’s ‘Everybody Knows’ to South Korea’s ‘Burning’ – 16 Foreign Language Films to Keep an Eye on at Cannes
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] With just 10 days to go until the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, it’s time to look at the... Read More
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