Triangle of Sadness

Article - Close wins 2023 LUX Audience Award

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Close, a Belgian coming of age drama, is the winner of the 2023 LUX Audience Award.

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  • Close, a Belgian coming of age drama, is the winner of the 2023 LUX Audience Award.
  • Read more about the five finalists of the LUX Audience Award 2023
    Organised by the Parliament and the European Film Academy in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinema, the award combines the votes of the public with those of MEPs - each group weighing 50%.
  • Accepting the award, Dhont said: “Five films that each in their own way talk about us humans, our paradoxes and our inconsistencies.
  • The attempt to connect to every individual audience member is our true desire, our motor in life.”
    Find out about the 2022 winner of the LUX Audience Award

The politics of the castaway story

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Triangle of Sadness follows the familiar plot of a castaway story.

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  • Triangle of Sadness follows the familiar plot of a castaway story.
  • The castaway story has helped promulgate a view about human nature as eternal and unchanging.
  • However, the castaway story reflects on the relationship between individuals and society.
  • Triangle of Sadness and other modern castaway stories, reach back to one of the first English-language novels, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719).
  • More than a survival tale of a man shipwrecked on a desert island, Robinson Crusoe is also a fascinating moral fable of individualism.

Work and enslavement

    • Robinson remains true to this spirit once he is shipwrecked, claiming the island to have “no society” and declaring the land as his personal kingdom.
    • Robinson becomes a farmer (using seeds from the shipwreck), raises cattle in accordance with European agriculture, hunts with muskets and hoards gold.
    • In one of the most shocking parts of the novel, he captures and enslaves a man, who he calls “Friday”, converting him to Christianity.
    • Much of the novel is about work.
    • Defoe was highly influenced by Hobbes and Locke, who provide the model individual for Robinson’s colonial adventure story.

Beyond individualism

    • Rousseau envisaged a kind of democracy which allows for individuals to be free in their collective decision-making.
    • In Rousseau’s educational treatise, Émile (1762), initially Robinson Crusoe is the only book the young boy is allowed to read.
    • Hierarchies of birth and privilege were overthrown and liberty was proclaimed for all based on the equality of human beings.
    • (Although as many critics, including Mary Wollstonecraft, pointed out this idea of equality was limited, and excluded women.)
    • The depiction of slavery in Robinson Crusoe and the politics of individualism were called into question by G.W.F.
    • In Hegel’s philosophy, individuals were always part of social relationships and needed to be thought of in relation to communities.

Alliance Entertainment’s Distribution Solutions Announces Partnership Extension with the Criterion Collection

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Distribution Solutions, a division of Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation (“Alliance Entertainment”), a distributor and wholesaler of the world’s largest in stock selection of music, movies, video games, electronics, arcades, and collectibles, today announced it has extended its partnership with the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on home video.

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  • Distribution Solutions, a division of Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation (“Alliance Entertainment”), a distributor and wholesaler of the world’s largest in stock selection of music, movies, video games, electronics, arcades, and collectibles, today announced it has extended its partnership with the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on home video.
  • With this extension, Distribution Solutions continues their distribution of the Criterion Collection’s titles in the physical media space across the United States, along with all backroom services including inventory, order management and financial services.
  • “We look forward to continuing our partnership with Criterion,” said Ben Means, President of Distribution Solutions.
  • To date, Distribution Solutions has distributed over 650 titles for Criterion.

Xiaozhi Rao won Best Director at the 3rd Golden Elm Flower Awards in Macau, and "Avatar 2" was selected as one of the top 10 foreign language films

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The 3rd Golden Elm Flower Awards, the global first film awards of 2023, were announced in Macau.

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  • The 3rd Golden Elm Flower Awards, the global first film awards of 2023, were announced in Macau.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230110005854/en/
    The 3rd Golden Elm Flower Awards (Graphic: Business Wire)
    Sunny Chan won Best Screenwriter for "Table for Six".
  • Technical awards such as Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Art also went to their respective winners.
  • To encourage the creation of Chinese animations and short films, this year's Golden Elm Flower Awards for the first time included two awards: Best Animation and Best Short Film.

AARP The Magazine Announces Nominees for the Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP The Magazine today announced the nominees for the upcoming annual Movies for Grownups® (MFG) Awards, with Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, The Woman King and Women Talking contending for Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category. For more than two decades, AARP's Movies for Grownups program has championed movies for grownups, by grownups, by advocating for the 50-plus audience, fighting industry ageism, and encouraging films and TV shows that resonate with older viewers. The 21st annual MFG Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.

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  • For more than two decades, AARP's Movies for Grownups program has championed movies for grownups, by grownups, by advocating for the 50-plus audience, fighting industry ageism, and encouraging films and TV shows that resonate with older viewers.
  • And we're thrilled that the Movies for Grownups Awards are back as a live event, celebrating a profusion of grownup masterworks we could scarcely have imagined when we started the awards decades ago."
  • Proceeds from the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards will benefit Wish of a Lifetime From AARP to help grant life-changing wishes for older adults and shift the way society views aging.
  • AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and the AARP Bulletin.