Lebanon War veteran Joseph Cedar (CAMPFIRE) directs a harrowing, often haunting account of Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon and the Beaufort ("Good Fort") mountain fortress. Built by Crusaders in the 12th century, the fort was captured by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in 1982 at the start of the Lebanon War. Eighteen years later, increasing criticism at home and abroad has led to Israel's ...

Winner of the 1961 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Virgin Spring" - based on the 13th century Swedish ballad called "Töres dotter i Wänge" - is the first film from Ingmar Bergman's very critically successful output from the 1960's. In this scene the girls - Karin (played by Birgitta Pettersson) and Ingeri (played by Gunnel Lindblom) - are on there journey to bring candles to the...

SONG:GHOONGHAT NAHIN KHOLOONGI MUSIC:NAUSHAD LYRICS:SHAKEEL BADAYUNI SINGER:LATA MANGESHKAR MOVIE:MOTHER INDIA 1957 Mother India is a 1957 Bollywood film directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raj Kumar. The film was India's nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957. The film was fifth Indo-Russian co-production, and was preceed b...

The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) Swedish, B/W, English Subtitles Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1960 "Written for the screen by Swedish novelist Ulla Isaakson, who had previously worked with Bergman on Brink of Life (1958), The Virgin Spring stars the great Max Von Sydow as Herr Tore, a wealthy farmer in Medieval-era Sweden. Although both Tore and his wife, Mareta (Birgitta Valberg...

The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) Swedish, B/W, English Subtitles Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1960 "Written for the screen by Swedish novelist Ulla Isaakson, who had previously worked with Bergman on Brink of Life (1958), The Virgin Spring stars the great Max Von Sydow as Herr Tore, a wealthy farmer in Medieval-era Sweden. Although both Tore and his wife, Mareta (Birgitta Valberg...

The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) Swedish, B/W, English Subtitles Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1960 "Written for the screen by Swedish novelist Ulla Isaakson, who had previously worked with Bergman on Brink of Life (1958), The Virgin Spring stars the great Max Von Sydow as Herr Tore, a wealthy farmer in Medieval-era Sweden. Although both Tore and his wife, Mareta (Birgitta Valberg...

The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) Swedish, B/W, English Subtitles Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1960 "Written for the screen by Swedish novelist Ulla Isaakson, who had previously worked with Bergman on Brink of Life (1958), The Virgin Spring stars the great Max Von Sydow as Herr Tore, a wealthy farmer in Medieval-era Sweden. Although both Tore and his wife, Mareta (Birgitta Valberg...

The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) Swedish, B/W, English Subtitles Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1960 "Written for the screen by Swedish novelist Ulla Isaakson, who had previously worked with Bergman on Brink of Life (1958), The Virgin Spring stars the great Max Von Sydow as Herr Tore, a wealthy farmer in Medieval-era Sweden. Although both Tore and his wife, Mareta (Birgitta Valberg...

Bonus interview footage of John Carney, Director of the film "Once" and winner of the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. Questions also taken by Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard, whose song "Falling Slowly" won the 2008 Academy Award for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures.

In 1947 the Academy gave a Special Award to Shoeshine for "the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity". Then, in 1956 they created a regular competitive category for pictures with subtitles. Since then, 60 films from all over the world have been awarded with The Oscar. From...

Dreams do come true... Emma Watson (Hermione in Harry Potter) stars in this heart-warming and uplifting film based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Noel Streatfeild and featuring an award-winning cast that includes Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths and Eileen Atkins. "We three Fossils vow to put our name in the history book, because it is ours, and ours alone..." With these words, ...

Ballet Shoes Dreams do come true... Emma Watson (Hermione in Harry Potter) stars in this heart-warming and uplifting film based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Noel Streatfeild and featuring an award-winning cast that includes Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths and Eileen Atkins. "We three Fossils vow to put our name in the history book, because it is ours, and ours alone..." With ...

Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Stefan Ruzowitzky's THE COUNTERFEITERS is the first film from Austria to ever receive that prestigious honor. Based on the memoir by Adolf Burger, the film tells the inspiring story of a pre-World War II criminal whose cunning and fiery spirit enable him to overcome deadly odds and survive life in Germany's Sachsenhausen concentratio...

'Enchanted' and 'Persepolis' help spawn new procedures The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a pair of rules changes aimed at diversifying the best song Oscar field and preventing embarrassment in the foreign film category.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hopes you enjoyed the Enchanted three-fer nominated for last year's Best Song Oscar, because that was the last time a single film will receive more than two song nods in any given season — even if they're virtually guaranteed to lose against upstart Irish indies and/or pimp anthems. A rule change implemented Tuesday night says "there is no limi...

Indy Mogul - DIY filmmaking -- Bonus interview footage of John Carney, Director of the film "Once" and winner of the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. Questions also taken by Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard, whose song "Falling Slowly" won the 2008 Academy Award for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures. (2:44)

won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 79', and tripped me the fuck out as a kiddie.....

Lagaan, 2001, film de Ashutosh Gowariker. 3e film Hindi à être sélectionné à l'Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, après Mother India en 1957 et Salaam Bombay! en 1989. Avec Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne et A. K. Hangal. Musique de A. R. Rahman, lyrics de Javed Akhtar. DVD : Studio G.C.T.H.V.Author: AldousHTags: Lagaan Aamir Gracy Gowariker Rahman Bollywood Fr...

Pelle the Conqueror (Danish: Pelle Erobreren; Swedish: Pelle Erövraren) is a 1987 film that tells the story of two Swedish immigrants to Denmark, a father and son, who try to build a new life for themselves. It stars Pelle Hvenegaard as the young Pelle, with Max von Sydow as his father. Based upon the famous 1910 novel by Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø, the film is set in the end of the 19th c...

This week, when Academy Award nominations were announced, the omission of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution from the Foreign Language Film category struck us as a travesty. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences rejected the NC-17 thriller set in Japanese-occupied China on the grounds that there was not enough Taiwanese participation in the film, which is total bullshit, since Lee's Crouching Tiger, ...

Parinda is an award-winning 1989 Indian film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It was India's official entry for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Parinda is considered by many to be the turning point in reality in Indian cinema, as the theme of the film discusses the real life of Indian underworld gangsters and the general life of residents in the city of Bombay. T...

Fire (1996) and followed by Water (2005). Earth was the Indian nominee for the 2000 72nd Academy Award for Best Foreign film, but was

The committee that hands out Oscars has narrowed down a year’s worth of film soundtracks and end-credit music into a fifty-nine track “short list” of songs that will be eligible for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards. Eddie Vedder, who contributed solo tracks to the Sean Penn film Into the Wild, and Sondre Lerche, who recorded the Dan in Real Life soundtrack, both hav...

Award Central: Getting country's official nod can raise profile -- At first glance, the Academy's taste in food and cinema may seem unrelated, but consider the facts: Ever since the Oscar for best foreign-language film was officially launched in 1956, more than a third of the category's 51 winners have gone to Italy and France.

BILL MOYERS: Remember ?The Lives of Others? - the movie that won this year?s Academy Award for best foreign language film?.a story of life under East Germany?s secret police. The critic Roger Ebert said: ?The movie is relevant today, as our government ignores habeas corpus, practices secret torture, and asks for the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on its citizens. Such tactics, he said, did not sav...