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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90
18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST
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The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day
11-20
11. Waltz With Bashir
12. Dig!
13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
14. The Consequences of Love
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Silent Light
17. Japon
18. The Sun
19. What Time Is It There?
20. Before Sunset
21-30
21. Unrelated
22. One and a Two
23. Ivansxtc
24. Let the Right One In
25. Of Time and the City
26. When the Levees Broke
27. You Can Count on Me
28. A Serious Man
29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
30. Control
31-40
31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu
32. Grizzly Man
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
34. Être et Avoir
35. Far from Heaven
36. Hidden
37. The Hurt Locker
38. Oldboy
39. The New World
40. The Piano Teacher
41-50
41. Spirited Away
42. Vera Drake
43. American Splendor
44. Capturing the Friedmans
45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
46. Crimson Gold
47. A History of Violence
48. In the Mood for Love
49. Movern Callar
50. The Night of the Sunflowers
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Days of Glory: out of Africa, into French hypocrisy
3 December 2009 12:00 AM, PST
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Rachid Bouchareb's moving 2006 portrait of the forgotten heroes of the Free French army is not just accurate, it's important
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: B
After the German conquest of France in the second world war, the Free French army drummed up recruits from its African colonies to bolster its comeback.
The Third Algerian Infantry Division fought in the Italian campaign and Operation Dragoon, and would eventually head the advance of II Corps to Stuttgart.
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North African troops had fought for France as far back as the Crimean war, and west Africans from the first world war. The film's characters are fictional, but plausible. "We must wash the French flag with our blood!" cries an Algerian recruiter. "We must liberate France!" Based on that long history, these Africans think of France as their homeland – la patrie. The film's French title, Indigènes (Natives), is clever: it's a mildly offensive colonial term,
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More Films Slip in Oscar's Back Door
13 November 2009 10:18 AM, PST
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By Steve Pond
Hope springs eternal.
For evidence, head on out to Laemmle’s Town Center 5 theaters in Encino this weekend, where a couple of screens are devoted to what appear to be Oscar-qualifying runs by small films hoping to slip into the awards picture.
The highest-profile among them is “London River” (below), a film from “Days of Glory” director Rachid Bouchareb with a lead performance by Brenda Blethyn that is reportedly sensational. (Sotigui Kouyate won the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival, but the stateside awards push is focused on Blethyn
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Gold Derby nuggets: Brenda Blethyn thaws 'London River' | Are Mirren & Plummer Oscar bound with 'The Last Station'? | Grammy contenders countdown
30 October 2009 11:23 AM, PDT
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• Pete Hammond reports that "London River" will get a mid-November one-week qualifying run in L.A. as part of a campaign to secure a lead actress nod for two-time Oscar bridesmaid Brenda Blethyn ("Secrets and Lies," "Little Voice"). Blethyn plays a mother searching for her daughter who goes missing after a London bus bombing. The pic -- directed by 2006 best foreign film Oscar nominee Rachid Bouchareb ("Days of Glory") -- was Algeria's entry for this year's foreign film race but had too much English-language dialogue to qualify. Still without American distribution, screeners of "London River" will be sent to the academy acting branch. Notes On A Season • Susan Wloszczyna drills down into the
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Tiff 2009: London River by Rachid Bouchard...
16 September 2009 11:22 AM, PDT
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London River is the newest feature from award-winning French-Algerian director Rachid "Days Of Glory" Bouchareb, starring actress Brenda Blethyn, screening @ Tiff 2009 September 17.
The film previously won a 'Silver Bear' @ Berlinale 2009, awarded to Sotigui Kouyaté for best acting.
"...Cities push strangers together, at times tragically, as in the London bombings of July 7, 2005. As hundreds went missing in the confusion of the aftermath, family and friends posted flyers all over the city with pictures of the loved ones they sought.
Brenda Blethyn plays 'Mrs. Sommers', a farming woman with a simple rural routine. When her regular calls to her city-dwelling daughter go unanswered, she crosses the English Channel into the throng of north London. At first, news of the terror attacks are mere background noise to her, but as she continues to search for her daughter, fear sets in.
At the same time, 'Ousmane' (Sotigui Kouyaté) an African farm worker has travelled
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Naceri Arrested Over Paris Stabbing
9 January 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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French actor Samy Naceri is facing a charge of attempted murder in connection with the stabbing of a man in a Paris bar.
The Indigenes (Days of Glory) star was at the central Paris bar to meet his ex-girlfriend and her pal. But a heated argument broke out between Naceri and the two women, and they retreated to the toilets where they called in help from the unnamed male friend.
The actor is accused of pulling a knife on the man after being confronted about the earlier altercation.
Naceri, 47, returned home to his apartment after the incident, but was arrested by police on Thursday evening and held in custody at a Paris hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for liver problems.
The stabbing victim is recovering from his injury.
According to reports, Naceri, who is a self-confessed alcoholic, is due to appear in court next week (begs12Jan09) to be formally charged with the crime.
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