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Taxi To The Dark Side

14 October 2008 9:48 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

A few days after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Meet The Press, and when asked about the magnitude of America's response to the terrorist threat, he said, "We also have to work through, sort of, the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful." Half the title of Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning documentary Taxi To The Dark Side derives from Cheney's diabolical statement, while the "taxi" part refers to the story of Dilawar, an innocent rural Afghan cabbie tortured to death by American soldiers while he was detained at Bagram Air Base in 2002. In what would become standard operating procedure (see also: Standard Operating...

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Daily Recommendation 09.29.08: Taxi to the Dark Side

29 September 2008 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- For today's Ioncinema.com Daily Recommendation we suggest: Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning 2008 Taxi To The Dark Side receives a second chance at making a first impression after failing to grab audiences via a proper theatrical pattern release. Check out HBO Documentary Films' television premiere at 9 P.M. Et/Pt only HBO In the period following 9/11, the Bush Administration’s crusade against terrorists took an illegal turn, with the U.S. military embarking on a policy of humiliation and deprivation intended to get political prisoners to talk.  The inhumane tactics used by military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo Bay flaunted the Geneva Conventions while killing a number of prisoners—including innocents like Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver whose only “crime” was to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.   Documentary series. ...

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Oscars Favor No Country for Old Men

24 February 2008 | From IMDb News

No Country for Old Men was the big winner at the 80th Annual Academy Awards, winning four Oscars including Best Picture. The gritty thriller, a favorite among critics, also won top awards for directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the second duo to win the Best Direction award), adapted screenplay (also for the Coens), and Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem. Surprisingly, the next movie to win the most awards was The Bourne Ultimatum, which took home three technical awards, while the two movies to win top acting honors earned two awards each. There Will Be Blood was the recipient of Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, while La Vien En Rose nabbed Best Make-Up and, in a bit of a surprise, Best Actress for Marion Cotillard, who thanked both life and love upon receiving her Oscar. Michael Clayton's Tilda Swinton was the winner in the highly-contentious Best Supporting Actress category, while Juno was, as expected, the winner of the Original Screenplay award.

There were a few more surprises in other categories, as Elizabeth: The Golden Age won for Best Costume Design, and Taxi to the Dark Side was named Best Documentary over favorites Sicko and No End in Sight. Best Picture nominee Atonement won a single award for Original Score, with Best Song going to "Falling Slowly" from Once. Other single-award winners included Ratatouille for Best Animated Feature, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street for Art Direction, and The Golden Compass for Visual Effects. Art Director Robert Boyle, nominated for such films as North by Northwest and Fiddler on the Roof, was presented with an honorary Oscar.

Hosted by Jon Stewart, the ceremony went along smoothly with few hiccups, though more than one presenter slid on the floor on their way to the podium. For home viewers, the show went only about 20 minutes or so over the expected time. You can check out photos from the Academy Awards, courtesy of WireImage.

Get the full list of winners in our Road to the Oscars section.

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WGA announce noms: Indies grab the majority of the noms

11 January 2008 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- A lingering strike haven't kept the Writers Gild of America from naming the noms for the Best Original, Adapted Screenplays and Best Documentary screenplays of the year. A quick overview of the noms below shows that studio-based indie division delivered in quantity and quality. Here are the noms below for those who create narratives on paper. Winners are announced on February 9th.           Original Screenplay"Juno" - Written by Diablo Cody, Fox Searchlight"Michael Clayton" - Written by Tony Gilroy, Warner Bros. Pictures"The Savages" - Written by Tamara Jenkins, Fox Searchlight"Knocked Up" - Written by Judd Apatow, Universal Pictures"Lars and the Real Girl" - Written by Nancy Oliver, MGM                 Adapted Screenplay"No Country For Old Men" - Screenplay by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Based on the Novel by Cormac McCarthy, Miramax"There Will Be Blood" - Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, Based on the Novel Oil by Upton Sinclair,

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WGA Nominees Announced

10 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Nominees for the Writers Guild of America Awards have been announced, with a few suprises and notable omissions. Original Screenplay nods went to four comedies -- Juno, Knocked Up, Lars and the Real Girl, and The Savages -- and one drama, Michael Clayton, while the films up for Adapted Screenplay are four critical favorites -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood -- and one surprising left-field contender, the thriller Zodiac, released back in March. Missing from contention were such high-profile films as Atonement, Charlie Wilson's War, and Sweeney Todd, which were also passed over for the Directors Guild of America awards. Documentary nominees were The Camden 28, Nanking, No End in Sight, The Rape of Europa, Sicko and Taxi to the Dark Side. The WGA Awards will be handed out on Saturday, February 9th.

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2008 | 2007

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