With the deadline for Best Foreign Language Film submissions upon us, indieWIRE’s Peter Knegt is taking stock of the possible injustices that already have taken place in the race … and at this early stage, the Academy isn’t even responsible. (Well, unless we count the problems of the one-film-per-country system, not to mention leaving the […]
The foreign films that got away
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:33 pm · October 1st, 2009
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Chile joins foreign-language fray
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:21 pm · September 13th, 2009
Chile is the latest country to formally join the Best Foreign Language Film race, having selected true-life political drama “Dawson, Island 10” as their official submission. To go by the trailer, the film, which tells the story of a group of political prisoners held captive on the titular island after a 1973 military coup in […]
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