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The Lumineers are preparing for their 2025 Automatic tour, in celebration of their latest album of the same name, which was released worldwide on Feb. 14.

The first single from the album, “Same Old Song,” has been the Lumineers’ fastest-rising single in history and is presently among the top ten songs on Alternative radio stations in both the States and Canada.

The tour is slated to kick off on Feb. 16 in Ontario, Canada, and will make stops across North America before concluding on October 14 in Austin, Texas.

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Special guests on the tour will include Young the Giant, Vance Joy, Lake Street Dive, The Backseat Lovers, Hippo Campus, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Tom Odell, Chance Peña, Dr. Dog and St. Vincent.

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In addition to their tour, The Lumineers are...

We’ve made it to New Music Friday once again, and there are some exciting new albums to stream over Valentine’s Day weekend.

Kick off your weekend of romance in the moshpit with the debut album from our February CoSigns, Winona Fighter. Or, if love is feeling too a little too soft for you, try Bartees Strange’s slasher-themed new album Horror. Meanwhile, today sees brand new releases from Chicago fuzz-rockers Horsegirl, Blackpink’s Jisoo, and The Lumineers.

Here are seven new albums to stream today.

Bartees Strange — Horror

Three years after his excellent 2022 album Farm to Table, Bartees Strange is back with his third studio album, Horror. Taking influence from slasher, horror, and thriller flicks — as well as a general feeling of doom — the Jack Antonoff-produced Horror is another massive, conceptual step forward for Bartees Strange.

Stream: Apple Music | Spotify | Amazon Music

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Horsegirl — Phonetics...

French actress and long-time Alain Resnais collaborator to preside over jury to select the best first film presented at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Sabine Azema has been named president of the Caméra d’or Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).

The jury selects the best directorial debut presented in Official Selection (In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard), Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight, which this year represents 26 films.

French actress Azema, who won her first César in 1985 for Bertrand Tavernier’s Cannes Competition title A Sunday in the Country, follows in the footsteps of Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Carlos Diegues and Nicole Garcia.

Azema is known for her nearly three-decade collaboration with director Alain Resnais for whom she has performed as the tragic heroine in Love Unto Death (1984), then in Mélo (1986) for which she was awarded her second César.

Other Resnais films in which she has performed include Smoking...

Broadway has been grooving to the Detroit sound since Motown the Musical opened in spring 2013. But before that show wraps its initial run on Jan. 18, it will get a little competition at the box office from two legendary Motor City acts when The Temptations and The Four Tops play a joint one-week engagement over the holidays. The vocal groups behind such hits as "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," "My Girl," "Baby I Need Your Lovin'," "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," "It's the Same Old Song," "Get Ready" and "Reach Out I'll Be

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Same Old Song: Scant Few Highlights Justify Lengthy Omnibus

Well, alphabet soup horror is back with The ABCs of Death 2, a follow-up to the first installment (The ABCs of Death) which had twenty six different directors helming a short film based on a word starting with each letter. Now, twenty six more directors try their hand at this formula, which is generally hit and miss, a complaint launched the first time around. With short films of such meager running time amidst a sea of similarly constructed items, most of these tend to cancel each other out. A struggle to remain vibrantly memorable also hobbles a sequence or two. And yet, there are a few little masterful strokes here, though enjoying them feels a bit like trudging through a bargain bin.

E.L. Katz of Cheap Thrills gets things off to an amusing start with his A is for Amateur segment,...

André Dussollier as Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling: "On the other hand, Nordling needs the General…"

Volker Schlöndorff discusses more Diplomacy, the link to Josephine Baker and André Dussollier in Alain Resnais' On Connaît La Chanson, The Ninth Day, Billy Wilder's comedy of manners, whether or not he has an Emperor Waltz in his past and Ernst Lubitsch, Walter Reisch, Conrad Veidt and Alma Hitchcock's blackout training.

Based on Cyril Gély's play Diplomatie, which starred Niels Arestrup as German General Dietrich von Choltitz and André Dussollier as Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling on stage in Paris, Schlöndorff, with the actors recreating their roles, shows us an intimate portrait of two men at odds, dueling with more than their lives at stake.

Niels Arestrup as General Dietrich von Choltitz and André Dussollier as consul-general Raoul Nordling, in Volker Schlöndorff's gripping Diplomacy (Diplomatie)

Anne-Katrin Titze: In Diplomacy you have a scene...

It all begins with a freeze frame of a dirt road somewhere in Yorkshire county, lined with trees whose lush foliage converges above in an arch. What could it be if not a portal? The movie itself, meanwhile, has not even started as we watch the opening credits, encased in large old-fashioned frames, slowly fade away—a device consistently favored by Alain Resnais who opened each of his 19 features likewise, holding off the films themselves until the screen no longer contained any visual surplus. The freeze frame comes to life as the camera pans farther down the road; then we find ourselves in a theatrical set.

We have been here before, of course. Resnais' Smoking/No Smoking, also based on a play by British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn, is set in Yorkshire as well. Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) borrows from the five-hour diptych its theatrical setting, one...

Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave, died aged 91 in Paris on March 2.

His latest film The Life of Riley premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last month and won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer prize and the Fipresci Prize.

Resnais’s first film and also his most well known one was the 1959 masterpiece, Hiroshima Mon Amour. It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay.

He won a Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival in 1969 for Last Year at Marienbad and Silver Bears for Best Director at Berlin for Smoking/No Smoking and The Same Old Song.

He received a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. He won the grand jury prize in Cannes for Gerard Depardieu starrer Mon uncle d’Amerique in 1980 and competed in 2012 with You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.

Complex and avant-garde French film director best known for Night and Fog and Last Year in Marienbad

Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.

He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...

His latest film, The Life of Riley, premiered in Berlin.

Veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais has died at the age of 91.

His death — in Paris on Saturday — comes just weeks after his latest film, The Life Of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter), premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the Fipresci prize and the Alfred Bauer Prize (see Screen’s review here).

The director will be remembered as part of the French New Wave, while also changing with the times in subsequent decades — his prolific career includes nearly 50 features.

His 1959 Hiroshima Mon Amour was Oscar nominated for best screenplay. He won Venice’s Golden Lion in 1969 for Last Year at Marienbad, and Berlin’s Silver Bears for best director for Smoking/No Smoking and The Same Old Song. He first attracted attention with his 1955 documentary Night and Fog, a BAFTA nominated portrait of Nazi concentration camps.

Dieter Kosslick, festival director of the Berlinale, said: “We mourn...

His latest film, The Life of Riley, premiered in Berlin.

Veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais has died at the age of 91.

His death — in Paris on Saturday — comes just weeks after his latest film, The Life Of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter), premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the Fipresci prize and the Alfred Bauer Prize (see Screen’s review here).

The director will be remembered as part of the French New Wave, while also changing with the times in subsequent decades — his prolific career includes nearly 50 features.

His 1959 Hiroshima Mon Amour was Oscar nominated for best screenplay. He won Venice’s Golden Lion in 1969 for Last Year at Marienbad, and Berlin’s Silver Bears for best director for Smoking/No Smoking and The Same Old Song. He first attracted attention with his 1955 documentary Night and Fog, a BAFTA nominated portrait of Nazi concentration camps.

Cannes honoured Resnais with a lifetime achievement award in 2009. Previously, he won...

When I awoke this morning to the unhappy news that Alain Resnais, the French director of "Last Year at Marienbad," "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" and "Night and Fog" among many, many others, had passed away at the age of 92, my first thought was how different the moment felt to most other announcements of veteran artists' departures -- more sorely immediate than the usual solemn, remove-your-hat mourning. Most nonagenarian directors who die do so with their life's work complete; Resnais's certainly wasn't lacking, but the man wasn't finished either. Only three weeks ago, Resnais premiered his 19th feature, "Life of Riley," in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival to warm applause and even a couple of trophies. The jury awarded him the Alfred Bauer Prize for "a film that opens new perspectives on cinematic art" -- an award that, at first blush, seems an odd fit for one as comfortingly seasoned and familiar as Resnais,...

Has everyone refreshed their beverages and their munchies and their Advil and their special crying pillowcases and whatever else we might need to get through the next hour New Year’s Day Dance-Moms-a-palooza? Good. Let the Season 4 premiere begin. After a quick highlight reel of all of the ridiculata that went down in Season 3, as promised in the preview, we open with the revelation that everyone is back for Season 4, including Payton and Leslie, despite the street brawl in New Orleans. Thalia and Jennifer, from last hour’s special, are not. Because we have not been beaten about the … Continue reading →

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Judy Garland’s daughters Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft will perform together for the first time in 20 years to raise money for breast-cancer research. They will give two concerts at Manhattan’s Birdland on Oct. 14 and Oct. 21 at Birdland, titled “Nothing Like a Dame – Lorna’s Pink Party.” The shows will benefit the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Dr. Philomena McAndrew Fund of Tower Cancer Research Foundation. The last time the sisters performed together was at the 1993 Tony Awards. See video: ‘Breaking Bad’ Musical Definitely Isn’t the Same Old Song & Dance Other guest performers will include Newman,...

Figure 1: The 400 Blows.

"In my view, the concept [the move] does not refer to the literal, physical movements of either the performers or the camera (although it can include these elements). It does not necessarily involve powerfully dramatic (or comic) large-scale alterations in plot. It does not have to entail any grand-slam subversion of social, ideological or cultural conventions. But something, in a filmic move, will indeed have to shift, perhaps gently, but tellingly so."

—Adrian Martin (2010: 23) [my emphasis]

Before being frozen, framed and immortalized in the static final shot of Les quatre cents coups (1959), Antoine Doinel undergoes its antithesis—a sequence of camera movements that re-frames, follows and foregrounds his actions. Escaping the juvenile delinquent centre, the character runs on a rugged country road, the destination of which neither he nor we know; the camera tracks the dash laterally in a medium shot. Visualizing his exuberance, Antoine performs a childlike half-run,...

Same Old Song: Jin-Ho Adapts Latest Version of Overproduced Classic

It seems there are some tales we can just never get enough of. While mainstream cinema endlessly remakes itself, super hero franchises rebooted, often more than once in the same decade, the art house crowd has its predilection for familiarity as well. If it’s not another adaptation of Shakespeare’s something or other, there’s a plethora of other canonical texts that cross multicultural barriers, and one of those happens to be Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 18th century novel, Dangerous Liaisons, which has just been remade as a co-production between China and Singapore, helmed by Hur Jin-Ho, the award winning Chinese-South Korean director of Christmas In August (1998). Several definitive versions from several countries already exist, and here we have this lurid tale of mind games and sexual manipulation transported to 1931 Shanghai. While this is certainly one lavishly mounted production,...

Episode 6 finds us in what I like to refer to as “filler territory.” And what’s most surprising about that with this specific story is that it was actually written by show co-creators Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre. It’s not that it was a lazy outing, but again it feels like an episode intended to fill a time slot with some added minimal laughs and cheap gags. Even a pseudo-cameo from Professor Stephen Hawking couldn’t rescue our gang this week from mediocrity; however, off we go!

Sheldon starts a game of Words with Friends with Professor Stephen Hawking, and immediately he believes that they are now something more than just fellow scholars: friends. So Sheldon embarks on a quest to best the most brilliant mind on the planet in a game of words, only to learn that Hawking is actually a sore loser. By default, Sheldon learns the...

The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.

Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.

Complete list of films:

Competition Films

Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.

Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)

Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)

A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)

Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)

Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)

The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)

Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)

Present Tense...

It didn’t take me very long to jump all over and maul this week’s new issue of Entertainment Weekly. The cover says it all with two black suited icons adorning the page: Christian Bale as Batman and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. This is the beginning of the countdown to release we have been waiting for.

The summer movie preview issue of EW is here folks and The Dark Knight Rises is the blockbuster tentpole subject covered. Finally, I thought! Some ray of hope for new tidbits about this summer’s most anticipated film. No such luck in the issue. Same old song and dance I’m afraid but I can’t say I’m very surprised. With no viral marketing to hold a candle to Christopher Nolan’s last Bat-installment, vague trailers, and the lack of even some action figures released yet, it looks like we are all...

As Aerosmith frontman kicks off TV gig, we look back on the rocker's decades-long highs and lows as part of iconic band.

By Gil Kaufman

"American Idol" judge Steven Tyler

Photo: Tony Duran / Fox

Steven Tyler has seen it all. The famously loud and proud singer of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Aerosmith has experienced the highest highs of the music business, as well as the deepest depths of career (and personal) misery.

In other words, he's perfectly qualified to be a judge on "American Idol." Though his selection as part of the new three-judge panel on America's favorite reality singing show was somewhat of a left-field surprise to his bandmates, the program's fans and many critics, Tyler seems excited and enthusiastic about the gig as season 10 gets under way Wednesday night.

He recently admitted that he hadn't really watched the show before because of his busy schedule...

Iconic Aerosmith frontman has lived in the spotlight for the past five decades.

By James Montgomery

Steven Tyler

Photo: Kevin Kane/ WireImage

On Wednesday (September 22), Steven Tyler officially began the latest chapter of his long and winding career: "American Idol" judge.

It's a logical step for a guy who's spent the better part of the last five decades in the spotlight as the iconic frontman of Aerosmith, one of the truly great American rock bands with a catalog of hits that, if stacked, would undoubtedly tower over "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest. He's been everywhere, seen everything and lived to tell about it all. Clearly, if there's anyone who knows what it takes to be a star — and to have success — it's Tyler.

Born in Yonkers, New York, Tyler formed Aerosmith in Boston in 1970, along with guitarist Joe Perry, bassist Tom Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer and guitarist Ray Tabano (who was...

Chicago – The Duplass Brothers recently told me that they avoid making movies blatantly modeled after the work of other filmmakers because they often end up “derivative and bad.” Jake Goldberger’s debut feature “Don McKay” is living proof of this principle. It is a monumentally awkward rip-off of the debut feature from the most well-known filmmaking team of brothers in modern cinema.

I’m referring to “Blood Simple,” the 1985 neo-noir by Joel and Ethan Coen that is not merely a great film, but the type of picture guaranteed to generate excitement about the art form. The structure of the movie is so meticulous and the diabolical dark humor is so infectious that film lovers can’t help hanging on every last frame. One of the most memorable aspects of the picture is its utilization of the Motown hit, “It’s the Same Old Song,” which first emanates from a jukebox,...

He used to tackle big issues: Hiroshima, the Algerian war. But Alain Resnais's latest film is about the theft of a wallet. The director tells Gilbert Adair why

Old age is always faintly unnerving. Although, at 88, Alain Resnais isn't by any means the most venerable of active film-makers, it's still hard to credit that the film I've come to Paris to talk to him about – Wild Grass, an authentic surrealist romance, as far from being geriatric in style as it's possible to imagine – was made by this elegant, eloquent gentleman sitting opposite me at the Hôtel Claridge, near the Champs Elysées.

I last met Resnais a couple of decades ago, and he has remained much as I remembered: the superb mane of snow-white hair, flaming red shirt, tightly knotted black tie and trademark white trainers. All that's missing is a viewfinder dangling on his pullover, as nonchalantly as a monocle.

The Americanized title of Agnès Jaoui’s Parlez-moi De La Pluie doesn’t match up with a literal translation—“talk to me of the rain”—but marketers can’t be blamed for trying to infuse a hint of action into a movie that boils down to a series of tart conversations. Jaoui and her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri (with whom she traditionally co-writes and co-stars), specialize in barbed comedies of haute bourgeois manners; they wrote Smoking/No Smoking and Same Old Song for Alain Resnais before stepping out on their own with 2000’s The Taste Of Others. In Let ...

As we have previously reported, Fox’s “Fringe” will get musical on April 29th. Here’s the first look at this musical episode within Walter Bishop’s (John Noble) head. Why is there song and dance in Walter’s head? Executive producer Jeff Pinkner explains:

“We didn’t set out to do a musical. We set out to do an episode that explored Walter’s state of mind — he’s dealing with some very upsetting news. When we realized that the way Walter would deal with such news would be to try to anesthetize himself with copious amounts of marijuana, well, singing and dancing became a natural outcome.”

In this pic from the episode entitled “Overture”, Olivia (Anna Torv) is dressed in a retro-style P.I. outfit. Pinkner teases: “It’ll be interesting to see how Walter really perceives her.”

For more on this musical episode, check out our article,...

Chicago – We’re back with week two of the 13th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center, one of the best film events of the year in the Windy City. If you missed part one of our coverage, and want to relive highlights of last week, check it out here. On to week two…

This year’s edition, running from March 5th to April 1st, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Peter Greenaway, Jacques Rivette, Neil Jordan, Catherine Breillat, Amos Gital, Bruno Dumont, Jan Hrebejk and Caroline Link. Moviegoers should take note of the fact that several of these titles won’t be screened outside of the EU festival in Chicago, making their appearance here all the more priceless.

The 13th Annual European Union Film Festival includes 59 feature films, all of which are making their Chicago premiere. If you’ve had your fill with Hollywood,...

NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin is the one taking the exit from "Dancing with the Stars" this week. The number of votes from the audience did not help to crank up the score he received on Monday, November 3 performance. Ironically, his solo Foxtrot earned him 23 points out of 30, his best score during the entire season.

Together with his partner Anna Demidova, Irvin earned praises for his smooth Foxtrot. Len said it was brilliant while Carrie Ann branded it "gracious and fluid". Michael and Anna also participated on the group dance, the Paso Doble. With Aaron Carter, Mark Dacascos and Mya, Irvin added 24 to his total number.

"Last night was a great night and to see the audience here standing up... it's a way of saying they appreciate your hard work," Irvin said about the elimination. Demidova meanwhile said, "I want to say thank you to Michael for being a wonderful partner.

Rod Stewart has been revealed as the musical guest for this Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing, which comes live from Blackpool Tower Ballroom, the home of ballroom dancing. Rod will be performing the hit ‘Same Old Song’ – and will be joined by his wife, and former Strictly contestant, Penny Lancaster, making it a real family affair!

Penny will be teaming up with Strictly professional dancer, Matthew Cutler, to perform a Cha Cha Cha during Rod’s performance. This will be the first time that Penny has returned to the show since competing in series five in 2007. Penny didn’t get to perform the Cha Cha Cha when she was on the show so it’s a dance she has waited a long time to do.

Rod and Penny will be flying up to Blackpool in their own private jet, while the rest of the Strictly crew will be travelling up by coach.

Rod Stewart will perform on this coming week's installment of "Strictly Come Dancing." He will be joined during his performance by wife Penny Lancaster, who took part in the show back in 2007. This week the show will be filmed from on top of the Blackpool Tower.

The professional dancers will be performing a Viennese Waltz to music that will provided by the legendary British singer Rod Stewart. The Sun newspaper has been reporting that Rod Stewart's wife and model, Penny Lancaster, will dance a cha-cha during his performance. When she was on the BBC show in 2007, she was voted off in the sixth week.

Sources have been saying that; "Penny is really excited. She's been practicing like a demon. She's quite nervous. She feels like Cheryl Cole performing on X Factor - hopefully the judges will be as nice to her."

It will be the first time the 38-year-old...

In an industry bursting with rags to riches stories, Marshall Mathers is the unlikeliest hero of them all. A skinny white kid from the god-neglected 8 Mile, Eminem has (controversially) become the greatest rapper alive, an obscene genius who used his horrific past as fuel for his music.

At the same time the world was hooked on Eminem’s music and the controversy that enveloped him, Slim Shady was hooked on pills, an addiction that landed him in rehab and resulted in a four-year absence. Now Eminem has re-emerged to release the perfectly titled Relapse, an almost impossibly dark album he lobs at hip-hop like a hand grenade.

Relapse reunites Em with his mentor Dr. Dre , but the album’s production is largely drowned out by Eminem’s frighteningly intense rhyming, resulting in a work that’s more of an event than an album. Eminem didn’t make Relapse for us,...

The documentary "Every Little Step" will interest those who have appeared in a production of "A Chorus Line." So it should be bigger than "Spider-Man."

The movie attempts to be a biography of Michael Bennett, the director and choreographer of the original "A Chorus Line." And a backstage story of how that production was put together by Bennett from taped all-night group interviews with dancers in 1974. And a look at the 2006 revival. And a portrait of some of those who auditioned for the new show.

The film does all of these...

PARIS -- Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley walked away with the prize for French film of the year at a ceremony for the Prix Louis-Delluc 2006 on Monday.

Le Pressentiment, directed by actor-turned-director Jean-Pierre Darroussin, was declared best first film. The coveted honor, named for one of France's original filmmakers/critics and nicknamed the Goncourt du cinema, was awarded to Ferran and to Darroussin by the jury and its president Gilles Jacob at famed Paris restaurant Fouquet's.

The Prix Louis-Delluc, given since 1937, is typically an early forecast of accolades to come as the French awards season kicks off.

Lady Chatterley, based on the second version of D.H. Lawrence's controversial novel, is distributed by Ad Vitam and stars Marina Hands as Lady Constance Chatterley.

The film is being sold internationally by Films Distribution, which also boasts last year's Prix Louis-Delluc winner, Philippe's Garrel's Regular Lovers, among its library titles.

Competition for this year's prize included: Bled Number One by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, who won the award for best first film in 2002 for his "Wesh Wesh, Qu'est-ce qui se passe?"; Coeurs by Alain Resnais, who has previously taken home the award in 1966 for La Guerre est Finie, in 1993 for Smoking-No Smoking and in 1997 for On Connait la Chanson; Flandres by Bruno Dumont; Jardins en Automne by Otar Iosseliani, winner of the prize in 1999 for Adieu, Plancher des Vaches; and Quand J'etais Chanteur by Xavier Giannoli.