Monday, February 28, 2011

And the Oscar for Best Foreign Film goes to.....

The other movies nominated for the Foreign Film Award:  Biutiful from Mexico; Dogtooth from Greece; In a Better World from Denmark; Incendies from Canada and Outside the Law from Algeria. This year's Oscar went to In a Better World.

The DVD will soon be coming to a Library near you. But, did you know that you have 38 Oscar winners to choose from? Here are a few titles: The Bicycle Thief  (Italy
) directed by Vittorio de Sica; Black Orpheus (Brazil) directed by Marcel Camus; War and Peace (USSR) directed by Sergei Bondarchuk; Fanny & Alexander  (Sweden) directed by Ingmar Bergman and  The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina) directed by Juan Jose Campanella

And aside from the award winners, there are many others to choose from in the foreign language category. The Library offers films in French, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and more. Come in and stop by the Audiovisual Desk for more information.

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