  Avedikian, Fetisova’s “Paradjanov” in Foreign Oscar longlist (video)   October 8, 2013 - 13:57 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Serge Avedikian and Olena Fetisova’s “Paradjanov”, Ukraine’s candidate for the foreign language Oscar is among 76 movies on the Academy Award long-list, comments.ua said. The long list, which has a record number of movies up for Oscars glory, was initially expected to be announced last Friday, but was held up as Academy bigwigs checked that all of them meet the eligibility criteria. The film, co-produced with Ukraine, France, Georgia and Armenia, stars Avedikian as a brilliant director Sergey Paradjanov, whose nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. Parajanov’s eccentricities land him in jail, where his indestructible love for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion. “Paradjanov” was named the best feature film at Odessa Festival. Accoridng to CBS News, some of the more noteworthy submissions this year include: "The Hunt" (Denmark), for which Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival as a man accused of child abuse; "Gloria" (Chile), starring Paulina Garcia as a middle-aged woman seeking romance (Garcia won acting honors at the Berlin International Film Festival); "Wadjda," about a young girl's wish for a bicycle, which is the first Saudi Arabian film directed by a woman; and "The Past," by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose last film, "A Separation," won the 2012 Best Foreign Film Oscar. Also: "The Grandmaster" (Hong Kong), Wong Kar-wai's tale of martial arts master Yip Man; "Omar," a tragic Palestinian love story set in the Occupied Territories; "Stalingrad," about the World War II battle (and the first Russian film in Imax 3-D); the Cambodian documentary "The Missing Picture," about surviving the Khmer Rouge; and "Heli," a violent Mexican drama about drug dealers and police corruption which won Amat Escalante the Best Director award at Cannes.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia.Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |
