GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
"A folk tale disguised as a documentary, Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan appears something like actual reality, half-planned and half-found," writes David Phelps in Slant. "Long handheld takes of dust storms and emerging tornados and lightning storms in the ostensibly uninhabitable...
"Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michae (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I have to run, but please hop over to Hammer to Nail to read my review of Sergey Dvortsevoy's indescribably great Tulpan. I just saw it again on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks and it was just...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Film News: Pic also named Discovery of the Year -- “Tulpan,” the feature debut of Kazakh-born documaker extraordinaire Sergey Dvortsevoy, continued its winning ways at the recently wrapped Reykjavik Intl. Film Festival.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Polished, funny and utterly charming, Kazakhstan director Sergey Dvortsevoy's debut feature, "Tulpan," won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. It tells of a family not only surviving but also relishing the harsh life as sheep and goat herders on a barren landscape.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
"Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan won the Prize of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival tonight in France, while Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Tokyo Sonata won the jury prize," reports indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez, who lists winners of further UCR awards. "Shy courtship,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Cannes, France - The Cannes Film Festival began rolling out its awards Saturday with Kazakh director Sergey Dvortsevoy's film Tulcan about a young man's dreams for a new life in a harsh landscape winning the prize for one of the 12-day movie marathon...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Filed under: Awards , Festival Reports , Cinematical Indie Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan won the Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival tonight, with Tokyo Sonata taking the Jury Prize. Well, darn ... it figures that one of the few films we didn't manage to catch at the fest ended up winning the category. The film is a Kahzakstanian tale of a young man who must marry before he can become...
