Film Gourmand

 As the best film of the world cinema of 1969 according to FilmGourmand the film "Midnight Cowboy" by John Schlesinger was recognised. The film premiered in New York on May 25, 1969. A month after the premiere, "Midnight Cowboy" took part in the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the main prize - the Golden Bear. However, the festival jury, chaired by the German film, theater and opera director Johannes Schaaf, awarded the main prize to the Yugoslav film "Rani radovi (Early Works)" by Zelimir Zilnik. But, Schlesinger's film did not remain without an award at all, having received the Prize of the International Catholic Organization for Cinema and Audiovisual (OCIC). At the beginning of the next year, 1970, the film received 7 nominations for the American Golden Globe Awards, but in the most important nominations - Best Drama Film and Best Director "Midnight Cowboy" and its director John Schlesinger lost to "Ann...

 On March 5, 1962, the premiere of Mikhail Romm's film "Nine Days of One Year" took place at the Rossiya cinema in Moscow. The film by Mikhail Romm was watched by almost 24 million Soviet moviegoers, or almost 11% of the population, during the year. According to a 1963 Soviet Screen magazine poll, the film was recognized as the best Soviet film of 1962. Three months after the premiere, Mikhail Romm's film "Nine Days of One Year" was presented at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, where it was awarded the highest prize - the Crystal Globe. Among the 25 nominees for this award was, in particular, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film "Accattone". At home, in the USSR, in 1966 the film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR. The perception of the film by film critics cannot be characterized as unequivocal. One of the patriarchs of Russian film criticism, Naum Kleiman, recalled in 2000: “I must say that my ge...

 According to FilmGourmand, the film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" by the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli was recognized as the best film of the world cinema of 1968. The premiere of the film "Romeo and Juliet" can be considered a screening of the picture for members of the British royal family, held on March 4, 1968. On March 5, 1968, the film was shown in cinemas in the UK, and then in other countries. And 4 years later, in March 1972, "Romeo and Juliet" began to be shown in Soviet cinemas. However, with the age limit "Children under 16 are not allowed." I remember very well how I went to see this film. The fact is that when Franco Zeffirelli's film began to be shown in our city, I was not only 16 years old, not even 15 years old yet. And the guys from our yard, who were a year, two years older than me, watched the film. And they discussed it very violently among themselves. How I envied them: they, w...

 Mike Nichols' comedy "The Graduate" was recognized as the best film of world cinema of 1967 according to FilmGourmand. "The Graduate" premiered in New York on December 20, 1967. The starting point for this film was a review of Charles Webb's novel "The Graduate". The review was published in The New York Times in October 1963. This review caught the eye of Lawrence Turman, a 37-year-old independent film producer. Turman's attention was drawn to the review's by the comparison of the novel's protagonist with his favorite character in Jerome Salinger's cult novel "Catcher in the Rye", Holden Caulfield. And, quickly finding his bearings, Turman acquired the rights to film Webb's story for just one thousand dollars. A few years later, Turman considered himself quite ripe for producing a film based on the novel by Charles Webb, and initially the issue with the director of the future film was resolved for him - Mike Nichols (...

 On March 4, 1982, Werner Herzog's film "Fitzcarraldo" was released in theaters in West Germany. In some sources, you can read that the prototype of the title character of the painting by Werner Herzog was the Peruvian "rubber baron" Carlos Fermin Fitzcarald Lopez. This is only partially true: the name of the hero of the film is borrowed from a Peruvian explorer and entrepreneur, as well as a historical fact about the attempted transportation of a disassembled steamer across a mountain isthmus. That's all. In all other respects, there is nothing in common between the hero of the film and the Peruvian "rubber baron". It is difficult to name another film, the shooting of which would be accompanied by such difficulties and even tragedies. The first attempt to start filming the film was made by Werner Herzog in 1979. The territory that was the habitat of the Aguaruna tribe was chosen for filming. The Aguaruna are the most politically cohesive indigenou...