Review: Toronto winner 'Where Do We Go Now?' needs directions

Posted by · 4:40 pm · October 18th, 2011

The Lebanese feminist anti-sectarian musical comedy is an underpopulated niche in world cinema. However, after Nadine Labaki’s surprise Toronto champ “Where Do We Go Now?,” it’s probably safe to consider the door on that sub-genre closed.

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Spanish selectors ignore Almodóvar, as Sony picks up Lebanese Oscar hopeful

Posted by · 4:40 pm · September 28th, 2011

We’ll lead this foreign-language Oscar update with a promising bit of news on a previously announced submission. Lebanon’s entry, Nadine Labaki’s feminist comedy “Where Do We Go Now?” has just been picked up for US distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.

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The Long Shot: Where DO we go now?

Posted by · 7:47 am · September 21st, 2011

You’ve got to feel for Nadine Labaki. For months ahead of the Toronto Film Festival, industry pundits have been eyeing up the fest’s lone mentionable prize—the Audience Award—as some kind of mystical key with the power to unlock the opaque maze of this year’s Best Picture Oscar race; a maze, thus far, with no appreciable entry or exit points.

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