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    “Boyhood” Big Winner At L.A. Film Critics Awards

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    "Boyhood" (photo courtesy of IFC Films).

    Richard Linklater's feature earns best picture, director, actress and editor honors

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    “Boyhood” is on a roll. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Richard Linklater’s 12-year experiment their best picture of 2014 on Sunday.

    Linklater also earned a best director honor for his film, while Patricia Arquette picked up best actress–an interesting choice, since IFC will be pushing her performance in the Supporting Actress category for all major awards. Sandra Adair won best editor for “Boyhood.”

    The top acting honor went to Tom Hardy for “Locke.” J.K. Simmons was awarded with best supporting actor for his portrayal of a sadistic jazz instructor in the indie “Whiplash.”

    Other notable honorees include the Polish drama “Ida” which won best foreign language film and best supporting actress for Agata Kulesza. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” saw director/writer Wes Anderson pick up best screenplay honors while Adam Stockhausen won for excellence in production design.

    Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour” was named best documentary. “The Tale of Princess Kaguya” earned the best animated film mantle.

    Director Ava DuVernay won the L.A. Film Critics New Generation honor for “Selma.”

    Best cinematography distinction went to Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman.

    L.A. Film Critics voting ended in a tie for best music score between Jonny Greenwood for “Inherent Vice” and Mica Levi for “Under The Skin.”

    The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award went to Walter Reuben for “The David Whiting Story.”

    And receiving the career achievement honor was actress Gena Rowlands.
     

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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