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Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are set to star in Pawel Pawlikowski's next feature The Island (working title), a dramatic thriller scheduled to start shooting next year. FilmNation Entertainment will launch international sales next month at the American Film Market.  Written and directed by…

  The Directors From left to right: Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (Mexico) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Never Look Away (Germany) Hirokazu Kore-eda – Shoplifters (Japan) Nadine Labaki – Capernaum (Lebanon) Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War (Poland) The Questions 1. What more could we be doing to give foreign language c…

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and writer Annie Proulx, whose works include the short story that was turned into the groundbreaking eight-Oscar-nomination Brokeback Mountain, and The Shipping News, was moved by passion to write a guest column on Cold War. Director Pawel Pawlikowski wrote his black-and-white…

Two films shot in black and white this year have been nominated in the Oscar Best Cinematography category: Cold War and Roma. Interestingly, both take place in the past. For Cold War, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lukasz Zal said he and director Pawel Pawlikowski thought about shooting the post-war film in color…

During a heady morning for filmmakers situated from Los Angeles to Lebanon, Poland and beyond, directors of the five Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film contenders took time to share reactions with Deadline. Capernaum helmer Nadine Labaki "screamed and danced" with part of her team in attendance as they…

It’s been a big morning for foreign language films — and their filmmakers. Alfonso Cuaron's Roma today became the 11th foreign language movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar (though not all previous titles were nominated in the Foreign Language race). It also tied with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the…

Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke did not expect to be here. The writer/director and his actor are still talking about First Reformed, 18 months on from its premiere at Venice, as they receive nominations and awards to add to the mountains of critical praise the film has drawn. Its examination of a crisis of faith for a…

Amazon’s Cold War has been heating up since Pawel Pawlikowski won the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director award for it after its world premiere there in May. The black-and-white film, the follow-up to the helmer’s 2015 Foreign Language Oscar winner Ida, was just shortlisted for this year’s Oscar race as Poland’s…

 WHO Joanna Kulig Age: 36 Hometown: Krynica-Zdrój, Lesser Poland, Poland  WHAT In Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War, Kulig is Zula, a woman in post-war Poland who joins a folk music touring group. She begins a romance with conductor Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and the two form a passionate but volatile couple. The story spans time…

On Cold War, which marked his second collaboration with Pawel Pawlikowski, cinematographer Lukasz Zal built on his rapport with the Polish director to find an exciting new way of working. In his first-go round with the director, on 2013's Ida, Zal earned his first Oscar nomination, which resulted from a strange twist…

Pawel Pawlikowski’s sweeping romance Cold War was one of the buzz films out of the Cannes Film Festival and has been playing to acclaim on the festival circuit. The passionate love story, starring Polish actors Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot, follows two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully…

Cold War established itself early as a film to watch with Pawel Pawlikowski taking the best director award this year at Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. Poland agreed with the assessment, making the striking black-and-white love story set against the backdrop of Europe’s post-World War II ruins…