Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Film News: Event closes with 'Midnight Kiss' -- “Liverpool,” from Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso, took best feature at Spain’s Gijon Festival Saturday, which closed Saturday with “In Search of a Midnight Kiss,” from U.S. helmer Alex Holdridge.
IONCINEMA.com Latest News Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
I wish the producers behind Tulpan thought about creating an official website for their film -- it would answer my burning question of: how many film festival awards has Sergey Dvortsevoy 's directorial debut has won since he picked up his first three at this year's Cannes film festival (where the film competed in the Un Certain Regard section). Surprisingly, while as many as eight other films from...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A Kazakh comedy about a family coping with the harsh life of sheep and goat herding on a barren landscape took top honors at the second annual Asia-Pacific Screen Awards on Tuesday.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Film News: 'Tulpan,' 'Blind Mice' awarded at closing gala -- The London Film Festival handed out its awards on Thursday evening at a closing gala that included the European premiere of Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire . "
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
Film News: Dvortsevoy's drama wins Grand Prix -- “Tulpan,” Sergey Dvortsevoy's drama of a young shepherd's attempts to woo and win a bride on the Kazakh steppes, took the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, the highest prize awarded at the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival.
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Finally, some time to catch up and process what I’ve seen. For the first time as far as I can remember, I didn’t see any film from the Toronto or New York Film Festivals that I would consider a masterpiece. Maybe I’m just getting old and jaded. I’m listing pretty much everything I saw in descending [...]
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
This is really late, but I'm just now sifting through my email to find it.AMPAS has released the list of 67 films for this year's Best Foreign Language Film Award. They are:Afghanistan, “Opium War,” Siddiq Barmak, director;Albania, “The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider,” Piro Milkani and Eno Milkani, directors;Algeria, “Masquerades,” Lyes Salem, director;Argentina, “Lion’s Den,” Pablo Trapero, director;Austria,...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
We're in luck: Vadim Rizov's got one more round for us. Here was the first. Film: Tulpan Time & Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2:55 Moderator: Scott Foundas.â¨Subject: Sergey Dvortsevoy, co-writer/director. Attendance: Disheartening. Tone: Incredibly intense. Three-and-a-half minutes into the conference,...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
TULPAN director Sergei Dvortsevoy at the 46th New York Film Festival, October 9, 2008, answering questions from Scott Foundas and audience. Visit filmlinc.com for more from the New York Film Festival. Part One: Part Two:
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
Film News: Dvortsevoy's debut wins Louve D'Or -- Sergey Dvortsevoy's debut feature, "Tulpan," the tale of a young man seeking a wife in rural Kazakhstan, won the Louve D'Or for feature film at the 37th annual Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
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.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Film News: Win caps biggest-ever year for growing festival -- Swiss-Kazakh co-production "Tulpan" won the top film prize at the Zurich Film Festival on Sunday, capping the biggest-ever year for the young and growing fest.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Film News: McQueen joins three other nominees -- Debut helmers from the U.K., Bosnia, Turkey and Kazakhstan have been nommed for the European Film Academy’s European Discovery Award, the org announced Monday.
