Palm Springs 2009 : Last day and best of the fest
Four Days. Fourteen films. And I didn’t even get a chance to watch most of the films which the festival selected in its Best of the Fest Category.
Tried my best to barge into Departures (from Japan), never could make it into any of its shows. All packed and full. The movie won the Audience Choice award.
Ended the last day by watching the following movies
Waltz with Bashir
I suspect this was a documentary where the director tape recorded all his interviews and then made an animation film out of it. Not sure. But Waltz is about the Lebanon ‘67/68 problem between the two major religious segments, where Israel moved in to see the problem didn’t blow up.
The Little Traitor
A movie from Israel about a little boy who befriends a British Sergeant (Alfred Molina). Best film of the day for me.
Terribly Happy
From Denmark. A cop gets posted to a small town. And his problems begin. It has a casual pace to it, and yet doesn’t deter far from the plot and keeps you hooked throughtout.
Best of the Fest
Everlasting Moments
Tear This Heart Out
Captain Abu Raed – JOHN SCHLESINGER AWARD
The English Surgeon
The Little Traitor
Prodigal Sons
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
Moscow, Belgium
Rain – NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS RUNNER UP
The Necessities of Life – FIPRESCI AWARD, BEST ACTOR – NATAR UNGALAAQ
Marcello Marcello
Stone of Destiny
Creative Nature
Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
The Young Romantic: A Portrait of Yundi Li
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
We Can Do That
Departures – MERCEDES BENZ AUDIENCE AWARD, BEST FEATURE
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Black Balloon
Baby Love
Like Dandelion Dust
Hooked – NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS AWARD
Herb and Dorothy
Three Monkeys
American Primitive
Patrik, Age 1.5
Revanche – FIPRESCI AWARD, BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman – AUDIENCE AWARD, BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Did you like Waltz? I have mixed feeling about it. I thought the ending was the pt he was driving to and all the other 90mins was just a way to get to the end.
wow Ravp really?? the ending was the culmination point??? :-)
sorrry eheh couldnt resist that
Hahaha…
That was a good one Dpac.
ya ya, maro re meri.