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Afghanistan FireDancer (Jawed Wassel, director)
Algeria Rachida (Yamina Bachir-Chouikh)
Argentina Kamchatka (Marcelo Pineyro)
Austria Gebirtig (Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepanik)
Bangladesh The Clay Bird (Tareque Masud)
Belgium The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Brazil City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Bulgaria Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch (Kostadin Bonev)
Canada Un Crabe Dans La Tete (Andre Turpin)
Chad Abouna (Mahamat Saleh Haroun)
Chile Ogu Y Mampato En Rapa Nui (Alejandro Rojas)
China Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Colombia The Invisible Children (Lisandro Duque Naranjo)
Croatia Fine Dead Girls (Dalibor Matanic)
Cuba Nothing More (Juan Carlos Cremata)
Czech Republic Wild Bees (Bohdan Slama)
Denmark Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)
Egypt The Secret of the Young Girl (Magdy Ahmed Aly)
Finland The Man without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)
France 8 Women (Francois Ozon)
Germany Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)
Greece The Only Journey of His Life (Lakis Papastathis)
Hungary Hukkle (Gyorgy Palfi)
Iceland The Sea (Baltasar Kormakur)
India Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansail)
Indonesia Ca-bau-kan (Nia diNata)
Iran I'm Taraneh, 15 (Rassul Sadr-Ameli)
Israel Broken Wings (Nir Bergman)
Italy Pinocchio (Roberto Benigni)
Japan Out (Hideyuki Hirayama)
Korea Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
Lebanon When Maryam Spoke Out (Assad Fouladkar)
Luxembourg Dead Man's Hand (Laurent Brandenburger and Philippe Boon)
Mexico The Crime of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera)
Netherlands Zus & Zo (Paula van der Oest)
Norway Hold My Heart (Trygve Allister Diesen)
Philippines Small Voices (Gil M. Portes)
Poland Edi (Piotr Trzaskalski)
Portugal O Delfim (Fernando Lopes)
Romania Philanthropy (Nae Caranfil)
Russia House of Fools (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Slovakia Cruel Joys (Juraj Nvota)
Slovenia Head Noise (Andrej Kosak)
Spain Los Lunes Al Sol (Fernando Leon de Arano)
Sweden Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Switzerland Aime Ton Pere (Jacob Berger)
Taiwan The Best of Times (Chang Tso-Chi)
Thailand Mon-rak Transistor (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Tunisia The Magic Box (Rida Behi)
Turkey 9 (Umit Unal)
United Kingdom Eldra (Tim Lyn)
Uruguay Corazon de Fuego (Diego Arsuaga)
Venezuela The Archangel's Feather (Luis Manzo)
Yugoslavia Labyrinth (Miroslav Leki)
..... How many have you seen? :p
Cheering for 'Oasis'! (and I'll buy it this weekend)
Have seen the Czech film, 'Wild Bees' - and it's been out on DVD for ages. Had a ticket for 'Man Without A Past' but I screwed that one up by going into the wrong theatre and seeing a poor Mexican film with the wrong ticket :oh-hum:
Originally posted by Earl Jolly Brown
Cheering for 'Oasis'! (and I'll buy it this weekend)
Missed it at the London Film Festival, due to lack of interest from other people :(. Man, I've decided it is NOT a sad thing watching a movie on your own. It's sad if you miss a promising one, because others can't be asked! Sorry for going OT there, so here are my questions:
Earl, does Oasis have english subtitles? I was under the impression it didn't. I guess you can speak fluent Korean.
Also, that's one huge motha list. Are that many films entered every year?
This year is a record year and some countries and/or were rejected.
Forgot to link screendaily.com for story ...
Oasis has just come out on Korean DVD and it has Eng subs ... I too will be ordering this soon.
It was nearly 55 countries, but an attempt to submit the first Palestinian film in ages was rejected on the grounds that Palestine wasn't an officially recognised country.
Another interesting snippet was that a UK film The Warrior was rejected on the grounds that :
"Hindi is not a language indigenous to the UK and the film was not about the Hindu community in the UK."
... before entering the welsh film Eldra ...
HK's entry was also rejected because The Touch was mainly in English rather than mandarin (although everyone here knows HK people speak Cantonese and English) ... why The Touch was ever selected is another story but all I can say is that its no lost to world cinema ... :dork:
Originally posted by Cirrus888
Another interesting snippet was that a UK film The Warrior was rejected on the grounds that :
"Hindi is not a language indigenous to the UK and the film was not about the Hindu community in the UK."
... before entering the welsh film Eldra ...
Welsh films have been nominated before (<I>Hedd Wyn</I>), but it seems a little bizarre that Welsh should be considered eligible when there must be at least as many fluent Hindi speakers in the UK! Then again, that's part of the problem with this particular Oscar - artistic merit is often less important than whether or not certain boxes can be ticked.
HK's entry was also rejected because The Touch was mainly in English rather than mandarin (although everyone here knows HK people speak Cantonese and English) ... why The Touch was ever selected is another story but all I can say is that its no lost to world cinema ... :dork:
I was mildly surprised that this year's winner <I>No Man's Land</I> managed to get over all the various hurdles - not only was it a multi-national co-production (which defeated <I>Ran</I> and <I>Three Colours: Red</I> in the past) but a huge chunk of the dialogue was in English!
I held the DVD of 'Oasis' in my hand last Sunday, going by the packaging, it does indeed have English subtitles..
So at least 3 of these are available on disc - 'Oasis', 'Wild Bees' and '8 Women' (is that all?) - also, I don't suppose the HK release of 'Hero' will have English subs. will it?
Hero hasn't been released theatrically yet (19th Dec) but the chinese mainland DVD release is slated for February 2003.
Miramax has given Hero a November 2003 theatrical release date for the States.
No Spirited away?
I would have thought, with the might of Disney behind it and 100% good reviews (as well as the top prize from the Venice film festival), It would have been Japan's entry.
Originally posted by Cirrus888
Oasis has just come out on Korean DVD and it has Eng subs ... I too will be ordering this soon.
I had this in my "Basket" last night at DVDAsian along with Zhang Yimou's Happy Times.
May well have to go through to "Checkout" this time. :p
Oh, BTW. Isn't Hero being held back from Western release by Miramax and likely to miss the Oscar nominations?
The Beijing/ part of the production wanted Hero to run for the main oscars, best film, best director and so forth but Miramax had other ideas so it will now only run as a foriegn film entry.
I pre-ordered happy times R1 from cd-wow, its GBP13.99 and its out next week.
Spirited Away can still run in the main part of the oscars but considering the poor US response it will probably be forgotten unless Disney does another advertising campaign on it.
Originally posted by Cirrus888
Spirited Away can still run in the main part of the oscars but considering the poor US response it will probably be forgotten unless Disney does another advertising campaign on it.
Poor U.S. responce! 100% per cent good rating on rotten tomatoes. I solid box office take - it's only running on the Art house circuit and has so far made $6 million and it's still running with very little drop off after 3 months. Which is a hell of a lot more than the other 54 will have taken in the U.S.
Poor in terms that it wasn't good enough (according to Disney)to be released nationally which in all honesty for a film like spirited away is a crime.
I've changed my mind about Oasis.
Reading further - the subject matter of love between a physically disabled woman and a bloke that just came out of jail puts me off.
Great looking disc though. Loads of extras.
Sen to Chihiro/Spirited Away: Disney is going for a best animated feature nomination, not best foreign movie.
It's funny that you're all talking about Oasis as I just ordered it a couple of days back. It's my second korean purchase after The Isle.
Also ordered Yellow Flower :norty: and The Happiness of Katakuris. Have any of you guys seen any of these apart from Oasis of course?:)
Have seen Man Without A Past, Oasis, Gebuertig, Nirgendwo In Afrika, Lilya 4-Ever, 8 Women and Mon-Rak Transistor, and I'd hope that Kaurismäki and Moodysson get nominated.
Mon-Rak Transistor is out on DVD in Thailand, with subs.
Nirgendwo In Afrika is actually quite good and came out last month on DVD in Germany, but...jep, without subtitles...
Wasn't too wild about Oasis and was hoping for the Im-Kwon Taek movie to get nominated by Korea...haven't seen it but am a great admirer of his work.
Shame about Palestina, as Divine Intervention is a wonderful movie and really deserves all the recognition it can get...very poignant, very clever.
Anyone know what the rules are for voting on these? I thought I had heard somewhere that Academy members actually have to prove that they have seen all the films on the list before they can vote. Would make sense, but there can't be more than a dozen people or so who have actually made the effort...
While there are some excellent films in the list above, I find in hard to take much interest in such a category when Talk To Her and Russian Ark are not in contention for (allegedly) political reasons.
Batesman - how did you get to see all these movies? Film festivals? or are you a industry person? cause I'm impressed ... the amount of movies that pass us by every year because we have no way of getting to them is a real shame ...
The London Film Festival usually includes a fair chunk of foreign Oscar nominees.
Indeed, and even a fairly small festival like Sarajevo was showing a handful of those (didn't see any though - that's where I missed the Finnish one!) - 'Wild Bees' and 'City of God' seem to have been doing the festival rounds for ages.
Algeria Rachida (Yamina Bachir-Chouikh)
Argentina Kamchatka (Marcelo Pineyro)
Austria Gebirtig (Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepanik)
Bangladesh The Clay Bird (Tareque Masud)
Belgium The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Brazil City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Bulgaria Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch (Kostadin Bonev)
Canada Un Crabe Dans La Tete (Andre Turpin)
Chad Abouna (Mahamat Saleh Haroun)
Chile Ogu Y Mampato En Rapa Nui (Alejandro Rojas)
China Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Colombia The Invisible Children (Lisandro Duque Naranjo)
Croatia Fine Dead Girls (Dalibor Matanic)
Cuba Nothing More (Juan Carlos Cremata)
Czech Republic Wild Bees (Bohdan Slama)
Denmark Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)
Egypt The Secret of the Young Girl (Magdy Ahmed Aly)
Finland The Man without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)
France 8 Women (Francois Ozon)
Germany Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)
Greece The Only Journey of His Life (Lakis Papastathis)
Hungary Hukkle (Gyorgy Palfi)
Iceland The Sea (Baltasar Kormakur)
India Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansail)
Indonesia Ca-bau-kan (Nia diNata)
Iran I'm Taraneh, 15 (Rassul Sadr-Ameli)
Israel Broken Wings (Nir Bergman)
Italy Pinocchio (Roberto Benigni)
Japan Out (Hideyuki Hirayama)
Korea Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
Lebanon When Maryam Spoke Out (Assad Fouladkar)
Luxembourg Dead Man's Hand (Laurent Brandenburger and Philippe Boon)
Mexico The Crime of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera)
Netherlands Zus & Zo (Paula van der Oest)
Norway Hold My Heart (Trygve Allister Diesen)
Philippines Small Voices (Gil M. Portes)
Poland Edi (Piotr Trzaskalski)
Portugal O Delfim (Fernando Lopes)
Romania Philanthropy (Nae Caranfil)
Russia House of Fools (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Slovakia Cruel Joys (Juraj Nvota)
Slovenia Head Noise (Andrej Kosak)
Spain Los Lunes Al Sol (Fernando Leon de Arano)
Sweden Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Switzerland Aime Ton Pere (Jacob Berger)
Taiwan The Best of Times (Chang Tso-Chi)
Thailand Mon-rak Transistor (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Tunisia The Magic Box (Rida Behi)
Turkey 9 (Umit Unal)
United Kingdom Eldra (Tim Lyn)
Uruguay Corazon de Fuego (Diego Arsuaga)
Venezuela The Archangel's Feather (Luis Manzo)
Yugoslavia Labyrinth (Miroslav Leki)
..... How many have you seen? :p
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Cheering for 'Oasis'! (and I'll buy it this weekend)
Have seen the Czech film, 'Wild Bees' - and it's been out on DVD for ages. Had a ticket for 'Man Without A Past' but I screwed that one up by going into the wrong theatre and seeing a poor Mexican film with the wrong ticket :oh-hum:
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Originally posted by Earl Jolly Brown
Cheering for 'Oasis'! (and I'll buy it this weekend)
Missed it at the London Film Festival, due to lack of interest from other people :(. Man, I've decided it is NOT a sad thing watching a movie on your own. It's sad if you miss a promising one, because others can't be asked! Sorry for going OT there, so here are my questions:
Earl, does Oasis have english subtitles? I was under the impression it didn't. I guess you can speak fluent Korean.
Also, that's one huge motha list. Are that many films entered every year?
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This year is a record year and some countries and/or were rejected.
Forgot to link screendaily.com for story ...
Oasis has just come out on Korean DVD and it has Eng subs ... I too will be ordering this soon.
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It was nearly 55 countries, but an attempt to submit the first Palestinian film in ages was rejected on the grounds that Palestine wasn't an officially recognised country.
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Another interesting snippet was that a UK film The Warrior was rejected on the grounds that :
"Hindi is not a language indigenous to the UK and the film was not about the Hindu community in the UK."
... before entering the welsh film Eldra ...
HK's entry was also rejected because The Touch was mainly in English rather than mandarin (although everyone here knows HK people speak Cantonese and English) ... why The Touch was ever selected is another story but all I can say is that its no lost to world cinema ... :dork:
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Originally posted by Cirrus888
Another interesting snippet was that a UK film The Warrior was rejected on the grounds that :
"Hindi is not a language indigenous to the UK and the film was not about the Hindu community in the UK."
... before entering the welsh film Eldra ...
Welsh films have been nominated before (<I>Hedd Wyn</I>), but it seems a little bizarre that Welsh should be considered eligible when there must be at least as many fluent Hindi speakers in the UK! Then again, that's part of the problem with this particular Oscar - artistic merit is often less important than whether or not certain boxes can be ticked.
HK's entry was also rejected because The Touch was mainly in English rather than mandarin (although everyone here knows HK people speak Cantonese and English) ... why The Touch was ever selected is another story but all I can say is that its no lost to world cinema ... :dork:
I was mildly surprised that this year's winner <I>No Man's Land</I> managed to get over all the various hurdles - not only was it a multi-national co-production (which defeated <I>Ran</I> and <I>Three Colours: Red</I> in the past) but a huge chunk of the dialogue was in English!
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I held the DVD of 'Oasis' in my hand last Sunday, going by the packaging, it does indeed have English subtitles..
So at least 3 of these are available on disc - 'Oasis', 'Wild Bees' and '8 Women' (is that all?) - also, I don't suppose the HK release of 'Hero' will have English subs. will it?
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Hero hasn't been released theatrically yet (19th Dec) but the chinese mainland DVD release is slated for February 2003.
Miramax has given Hero a November 2003 theatrical release date for the States.
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No Spirited away?
I would have thought, with the might of Disney behind it and 100% good reviews (as well as the top prize from the Venice film festival), It would have been Japan's entry.
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Originally posted by Cirrus888
Oasis has just come out on Korean DVD and it has Eng subs ... I too will be ordering this soon.
I had this in my "Basket" last night at DVDAsian along with Zhang Yimou's Happy Times.
May well have to go through to "Checkout" this time. :p
Oh, BTW. Isn't Hero being held back from Western release by Miramax and likely to miss the Oscar nominations?
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The Beijing/ part of the production wanted Hero to run for the main oscars, best film, best director and so forth but Miramax had other ideas so it will now only run as a foriegn film entry.
I pre-ordered happy times R1 from cd-wow, its GBP13.99 and its out next week.
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Spirited Away can still run in the main part of the oscars but considering the poor US response it will probably be forgotten unless Disney does another advertising campaign on it.
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Originally posted by Cirrus888
Spirited Away can still run in the main part of the oscars but considering the poor US response it will probably be forgotten unless Disney does another advertising campaign on it.
Poor U.S. responce! 100% per cent good rating on rotten tomatoes. I solid box office take - it's only running on the Art house circuit and has so far made $6 million and it's still running with very little drop off after 3 months. Which is a hell of a lot more than the other 54 will have taken in the U.S.
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Poor in terms that it wasn't good enough (according to Disney)to be released nationally which in all honesty for a film like spirited away is a crime.
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I've changed my mind about Oasis.
Reading further - the subject matter of love between a physically disabled woman and a bloke that just came out of jail puts me off.
Great looking disc though. Loads of extras.
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Sen to Chihiro/Spirited Away: Disney is going for a best animated feature nomination, not best foreign movie.
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It's funny that you're all talking about Oasis as I just ordered it a couple of days back. It's my second korean purchase after The Isle.
Also ordered Yellow Flower :norty: and The Happiness of Katakuris. Have any of you guys seen any of these apart from Oasis of course?:)
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Have seen Man Without A Past, Oasis, Gebuertig, Nirgendwo In Afrika, Lilya 4-Ever, 8 Women and Mon-Rak Transistor, and I'd hope that Kaurismäki and Moodysson get nominated.
Mon-Rak Transistor is out on DVD in Thailand, with subs.
Nirgendwo In Afrika is actually quite good and came out last month on DVD in Germany, but...jep, without subtitles...
Wasn't too wild about Oasis and was hoping for the Im-Kwon Taek movie to get nominated by Korea...haven't seen it but am a great admirer of his work.
Shame about Palestina, as Divine Intervention is a wonderful movie and really deserves all the recognition it can get...very poignant, very clever.
Anyone know what the rules are for voting on these? I thought I had heard somewhere that Academy members actually have to prove that they have seen all the films on the list before they can vote. Would make sense, but there can't be more than a dozen people or so who have actually made the effort...
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While there are some excellent films in the list above, I find in hard to take much interest in such a category when Talk To Her and Russian Ark are not in contention for (allegedly) political reasons.
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Batesman - how did you get to see all these movies? Film festivals? or are you a industry person? cause I'm impressed ... the amount of movies that pass us by every year because we have no way of getting to them is a real shame ...
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The London Film Festival usually includes a fair chunk of foreign Oscar nominees.
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Indeed, and even a fairly small festival like Sarajevo was showing a handful of those (didn't see any though - that's where I missed the Finnish one!) - 'Wild Bees' and 'City of God' seem to have been doing the festival rounds for ages.
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