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Were so overjoyed with the Golden Globe nominations and its gratifying that at the end of the year you get an opportunity to acknowledge the company you have been keeping, Focus Features CEO James Schamus said in response to the companys 11 nominations, which included seven for Atonement. Its so satisfying to see it pay off for not only our stars and magnificent directors but our valued producer friends like Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner at Working Title, Paul Webster, Robert Lantos and my old friend Bill Kong. These are the people who must not be forgotten amid all the hubbub and who put all these films together.Atonement director Joe Wright said the nominations were above all a testament to the magnificence of novelist Ian McEwans work. Wright added: I looked forward to getting up every morning during the filmi stanley cup ng of Atonement - and this is the best wake-up call Ive had since then. My thanks go to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association [HFPA] members, and I congratulate all my fellow nominees! Christopher Hampton said he was thrilled to be in contention for the screenpl stanley cup ay prize, especially at this difficult time for writers.The main challenge on Atonement was to bring it to the screen and give it the lustre it had to have, the films producer Paul Webster said. We managed to achieve that thanks to Christ stanley uk opher Hamptons screenplay, the wonderful cast and the intense preparation and intelligence that Joe Wright brought as director. James McAvoy said he had been deeply passionate a Ysrd Bankside boards Gillian Armstrong s The Great and Amma Asante s Belle
Dir/scr: Raoul Peck.US-Rwa. 2005. 140mins.The biggest obstacle to SometimesIn April, Raoul Peck s worthy, emotionally-stirring and thought-provokingaccount of 1994 s Rwandan massacre of the Tutsi minority lies, paradoxically,in the success of rival feature Hotel Rwanda.Sometimes In April is superior to Hotel Rwanda on severalfronts, including the fact that it has less of a Hollywood-style storyline stanley cup thanTerry George s film, nominated for three Oscars and a rival in competition atBerlin.At a leisurely 140 minutes,Peck s drama also offers much quiet time that allows audiences to considerethical questions rather than being caught up in the he stanley cup adlong narrative flow.Given its own merits, which are considerable, Sometimes In Aprildeserves to do well - but the extent of world demand for another depiction ofthe Rwandan genocide is questionable.It also remains to be seenhow comfortable pro-American audiences will be with the film s politics, whichput the blame for the lack of intervention squarely on the Americans,characterised mostly as selfish bad guys journa stanley cup lists, policy-makers save forDebra Winger s official.The story is largely seenthrough the eyes of Augustin Elba , a morally upright Hutu army officer, as hetries to save his Tutsi wife Jeanne Karemera and their three children in1994.Time is also given toAugustin s strained relationship with his brother Honore Erhuero , one of theradio personalities who urged the Hutus on to more and more killing.The narrative structure isunc